County
Oceana County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Oceana County. Each local page gives you property-tax context, school-district rate ranges, official-source links, nearby places, and any Porch Notes tied to that community.
County snapshot
Cities
1
Townships
16
Villages
0
School districts
19
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 24.713 mills to 45.1768 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 42.713 mills to 63.1768 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Oceana County
City
Hart
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Benona Township
1 school district available.
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Claybanks Township
2 school districts available.
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Colfax Township
1 school district available.
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Crystal Township
3 school districts available.
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Elbridge Township
2 school districts available.
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Ferry Township
3 school districts available.
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Golden Township
2 school districts available.
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Grant Township
4 school districts available.
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Greenwood Township
3 school districts available.
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Hart Township
2 school districts available.
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Leavitt Township
4 school districts available.
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Newfield Township
3 school districts available.
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Otto Township
3 school districts available.
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Pentwater Township
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Shelby Township
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Weare Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Oceana County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Oceana County · Outdoors
Dune buggies and asparagus: Oceana's unlikely double crown
Oceana County has Michigan's only drive-on dunes at Silver Lake and calls itself the Asparagus Capital — celebrated each June at Hart's National Asparagus Festival.
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Michigan's six scramble areas (and the Silver Lake rulebook)
The open-riding playgrounds of Michigan off-roading — Silver Lake's dunes, Holly Oaks, The Mounds, St. Helen, Bull Gap, and Black Lake — and the extra rules each one layers on.
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Hart and the asparagus capital of the world
Hart celebrates Oceana County's asparagus country with the National Asparagus Festival each June.
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Hart has no city income tax
Hart is the only city in Oceana County, and it does not levy a local city income tax.
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Michigan's first rail-trail
Hart is the northern end of the William Field Memorial Hart-Montague Trail, Michigan's first paved rail-trail.
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New Era's farm country
New Era sits beside Oceana County farm-country destinations like Lewis Adventure Farm & Zoo and Country Dairy.
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