County
Saginaw County, Michigan
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County snapshot
Cities
3
Townships
27
Villages
0
School districts
28
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 29.6371 mills to 52.2546 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 47.6371 mills to 70.2546 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
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Places in Saginaw County
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Frankenmuth
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Saginaw
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Zilwaukee
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Albee Township
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Birch Run Township
4 school districts available.
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Blumfield Township
3 school districts available.
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Brady Township
2 school districts available.
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Brant Township
4 school districts available.
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Bridgeport Township
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Buena Vista Township
5 school districts available.
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Carrollton Township
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Chapin Township
3 school districts available.
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Chesaning Township
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Frankenmuth Township
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Fremont Township
3 school districts available.
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James Township
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Jonesfield Township
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Kochville Township
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Lakefield Township
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Maple Grove Township
3 school districts available.
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Marion Township
4 school districts available.
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Richland Township
2 school districts available.
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Saginaw Township
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Saint Charles Township
3 school districts available.
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Spaulding Township
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Swan Creek Township
4 school districts available.
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Taymouth Township
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Thomas Township
3 school districts available.
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Tittabawassee Township
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Zilwaukee Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Saginaw County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Saginaw County · Outdoors
10,000 wild acres on Saginaw's doorstep: the Shiawassee refuge
The Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, five miles south of Saginaw, gathers four rivers into a marshland so vast that locals call it Michigan's Everglades.
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Freeland's Walleye Festival: forty years of fish, parades, and small-town spring
Every April, Freeland and Tittabawassee Township throw a four-day Walleye Festival on the river — parade, carnival, fishing tournament and all.
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Stevie Wonder, Serena Williams, and a Pulitzer poet: Saginaw's famous kids
Saginaw's birth roll is wildly out of proportion to its size: Stevie Wonder, Serena Williams, Draymond Green, and Pulitzer Prize poet Theodore Roethke.
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The quiet township making the stuff computer chips are made of
Hemlock Semiconductor in Thomas Township is the largest U.S. producer of the hyper-pure polysilicon behind computer chips and solar panels.
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When Saginaw was the lumber capital of the world
In the 1870s and 80s the Saginaw Valley's 80-plus sawmills made it the lumber capital of the world, and the Castle Museum keeps that story alive.
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Zilwaukee: the town that (maybe) tried to out-spell Milwaukee
Local legend says Zilwaukee's founders picked the name hoping German immigrants bound for Milwaukee would get off the boat here instead.
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