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CHILLICOTHE
AREA DEMOGRAPHICS
Fast Facts Livingston County, Missouri
- Organized: January 6, 1837
- County Seat: Chillicothe
(www.livingstoncountymo.com)
- Townships: 13
- Land Area: 537 square miles
- Population: 14,269
- Births 145 (2005)
- Deaths 171 (2005)
Population
- Chillicothe: 8,968 (2000)
- Livingston County: 14,269 (2004)
- Median age: 39.7 (2000)
- Number of households: 5,736 (2000)
- Median household income: $32,793 (2003)
- Persons per household: 2.38
- Per capita income: $25,672 (2004)
- Median House Value: $65,288 (2000)
- Number of registered voters: County 8,459 Chillicothe 4,752
- Education level: 79.1 high school graduate or higher (city);13.3 percent
bachelor's degree or higher (city)
- Percentage of residents born outside the state: 21.4 percent
- Number of farms in county: 903 (2002)
Services
(For
more information, visit www.chillicothecity.org.)
- Police Department: Full-time. 17 sworn officers. 1 reserve
- Sheriff's Department: Full-time. 10 sworn officers of which 6 are full-time
road deputies.
- Fire Department: Full-time. 15 firefighters, 3 primary, one reserve city
trucks, rescue truck; rural pump, rural tanker and one rural brush truck
(natural cover fires), rescue truck.
- Chillicothe Rural Fire
Protection: The service area includes Wheeling, Utica, and approximately a
10-mile radius around Chillicothe. Membership required.
- Ambulance: Full-time. 4 ambulances. seven full-time paramedics, four
part-time.
- Hospital: 25 staffed beds
- Airport: Staffed
daily, Precision landing lights,
Automated Weather System (AWS), Non-Directional Beacon
- U.S. Highways: U.S. 36, U.S. 65
- Interstate: I-35 (40 miles west)
Employment (2005)
- Livingston County 5.1 percent
- Missouri 5.4 percent
Climate
- Average summer high: 85.6 degrees
- Average winter low: 19 degrees
- Warmest month: July, 87.5 (avg. high)
- Coldest month: January 16.9 (avg. low)
- Average annual precipitation: 38.07 inches
- Average annual snowfall: 14.5 inches
- Driest month: January (1.25 inches)
- Wettest month: May, September (4.73 inches)
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 (-15 to -10)
Assessed Valuation Livingston County
- Residential: $61,293,030
- Commercial: $26,554,860
- Agriculture: $13,773,380
- Total Real Estate $111,099,610
- Total Industrial (railroad & utilities): $9,478,340
- Total Personal Property: $37,350,532
Chillicothe (2006 assessed valuation)
- Real estate $62,870,103
- Personal property $22,592,955
- Total $85,463,058
Taxes
All personal and real estate property is subject to taxation. Real property
is land and improvements to the land. Personal property includes property such as cars, boats, and farm equipment. The amount
of taxation for real and personal property is determined by market value of the property.
Tax statements are mailed by the county and city treasurers in early November. Taxes must be paid by
Dec. 31 or be subject to penalties. Just because a property owner does not receive a tax statement
does not mean that taxes are not due. New residents must go to the county assessoršs office at
the county courthouse to get put on the tax roll. Buying real estate does not automatically put someone
on the personal property mailing list.
Real
Estate
How to calculate real estate property taxes (residential):
Take the market value of property and multiply it by 19 percent (a rate determined by
Missouri State Statutes) to reach the assessed value. Then, take the assessed value and divide that by 100. Then, multiply that amount by the tax
rates. This is the amount owed in taxes. Example: A resident within the Chillicothe city limits and owning a home
with a market value of $100,000 will pay a total of $1,116.50. Amount to be paid to the City of Chillicothe: $155.02.
Amount to be paid to Township collector: $961.48.
Personal
Calculating personal property taxes:
Take market value of property and multiply it by 33.33 percent (a rate determined by Missouri State Statutes)
to reach the assessed value. Then, take the assessed value and divide that
by 100. Then, multiply that amount by the tax rate. People residing within
the city limits of Chillicothe must pay taxes to both the city of Chillicothe (at a rate of 0.8071 per $100 assessed valuation for 2005) for
city services and to Chillicothe Township (at a rate of 5.0520 per $100 assessed valuation for 2005) for services provided by several taxing
entities (state, township, road and bridge, nursing home, library, health center, ambulance and developmentally disabled).
Example: A Chillicothe resident owning a car with a market value of $10,000
will pay a total of 195.86 in taxes: Amount to be paid to the City of Chillicothe: $27.19.
Amount to be paid to Township collector: $168.66.
Tax Rates*
- City 0.8159
- County 0.0000
- School 3.7469
- Other** 1.3135
- Total 5.8763
* 2006. Rates shown are for
Chillicothe R-2 School District and Chillicothe
Township. Residents living outside Chillicothe School District and Chillicothe Township will have different tax rates. All rates are subject to
change annually.
** Other includes state, township, road and bridge, nursing home, library,
health center, ambulance and developmentally disabled.
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