CRC Online Almanac

Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

(1988 State Equalized Value and 1998 Taxable Value in millions of dollars)

Kalamazoo County	--------------1988--------------			--------------1998--------------			Personal Property 1988-1998
Municipalities	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Dollar Change	Percent Change
Alamo Twp	$34.892	$2.482	7.1%	$69.895	$4.765	6.8%	$2.283	92.0%
Brady Twp	$43.945	$2.504	5.7%	$86.577	$5.619	6.5%	$3.114	124.4%
Charleston Twp	$25.695	$4.680	18.2%	$45.787	$7.759	16.9%	$3.079	65.8%
Climax Twp	$22.775	$0.793	3.5%	$40.388	$2.100	5.2%	$1.307	165.0%
Comstock Charter Twp	$206.698	$39.129	18.9%	$318.716	$56.791	17.8%	$17.662	45.1%
Cooper Charter Twp	$85.376	$4.866	5.7%	$149.730	$8.511	5.7%	$3.645	74.9%
Galesburg City	$12.452	$1.620	13.0%	$18.963	$2.821	14.9%	$1.201	74.1%
Kalamazoo City	$760.401	$137.436	18.1%	$1,204.988	$227.886	18.9%	$90.451	65.8%
Kalamazoo Charter Twp	$213.450	$26.089	12.2%	$329.321	$48.273	14.7%	$22.184	85.0%
Oshtemo Charter Twp	$177.337	$14.887	8.4%	$367.958	$29.288	8.0%	$14.401	96.7%
Parchment City	$42.181	$16.652	39.5%	$54.383	$19.927	36.6%	$3.274	19.7%
Pavilion Twp	$52.938	$3.579	6.8%	$101.971	$6.799	6.7%	$3.219	89.9%
Portage City	$674.679	$121.699	18.0%	$1,299.131	$279.632	21.5%	$157.933	129.8%
Prairie Ronde Twp	$23.484	$1.432	6.1%	$53.646	$2.099	3.9%	$0.667	46.6%
Richland Twp	$78.922	$5.950	7.5%	$174.733	$10.224	5.9%	$4.274	71.8%
Ross Twp	$85.632	$3.316	3.9%	$162.965	$6.159	3.8%	$2.843	85.7%
Schoolcraft Twp	$85.080	$11.720	13.8%	$155.570	$20.172	13.0%	$8.452	72.1%
Texas Charter Twp	$105.178	$4.326	4.1%	$307.373	$12.354	4.0%	$8.027	185.5%
Wakeshma Twp	$16.175	$0.641	4.0%	$22.329	$0.855	3.8%	$0.214	33.3%
Totals	$2,747.289	$403.802	14.7%	$4,964.424	$752.033	15.1%	$348.231	86.2%

6 municipalities increased their reliance on personal property, 13 decreased.