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Centerville

$3,340 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($39.66 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,420 a yearof that goes to the city ($16.85 per $1,000)

$2.7Mproperty taxes the city levies, FY27

$8.0Mcity budget, FY27, without city-run utilities (not yet reported)²

Who runs it

The city council passes ordinances, adopts the budget and sets the city’s property tax.

Kristopher HoffmanCenterville City Council Ward 2 · elected November 4, 2025
Michael G. O'ConnorCenterville Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Ronald CreaganCenterville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Ahna KruzicCenterville City Council Ward 3 · elected November 7, 2023
Brad BraumanCenterville City Council Ward 1 · elected November 7, 2023
Darrin HamiltonCenterville City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023

Officials are worked out from election results: every member whose four-year term is still running, plus appointments and titles Iowa Funnel has been told about. A resignation may not show yet.

Meetings and agendas

What the council is deciding: each agenda, the resolutions and ordinances on it, and a plain-language summary.

Iowa Funnel doesn’t read this city’s agendas yet. Every council and board posts its agenda at least 24 hours before it meets.

Property taxes

How the bill is collected · What each levy is for

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Centerville

Homes and businesses in most of Centerville pay a combined $39.66 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Appanoose County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $16.85. Estimate your bill.

City of Centerville$16.8542%
Centerville schools$15.6840%
Appanoose County$5.0613%
Indian Hills Community College$1.243%
Appanoose County Assessor$0.521%
Appanoose County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.31<1%

Rates over time

Per $1,000 of taxable value: the typical combined rate people in Centerville pay, and the city government’s own piece of it.

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$47.77	$17.88
FY21	$46.08	$17.47
FY22	–	$17.73
FY23	–	$17.50
FY24	$44.13	$17.93
FY25	–	$19.14
FY26	$44.30	$19.10
FY27	$39.66	$16.85

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Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$47.77	$17.88
FY21	$46.08	$17.47
FY22	–	$17.73
FY23	–	$17.50
FY24	$44.13	$17.93
FY25	–	$19.14
FY26	$44.30	$19.10
FY27	$39.66	$16.85

Compared with places this size³

Centerville’s city property tax rate of $16.85 per $1,000 is the 12th highest of 59 Iowa cities with 3,600–7,800 people. The middle of the group is $14.88.

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#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Red Oak	$20.65	5,420
2	Oelwein	$20.16	5,788
3	Albia	$19.70	3,579
4	Eagle Grove	$19.32	3,615
5	Independence	$19.01	6,266
6	Iowa Falls	$18.86	4,993
7	West Liberty	$18.68	3,724
8	Chariton	$18.37	4,278
9	Atlantic	$17.48	6,717
10	Knoxville	$17.46	7,440
11	Clarinda	$17.25	5,334
12	Centerville	$16.85	5,345
13	Algona	$16.75	5,341
14	Webster City	$16.51	7,763
15	Vinton	$16.25	4,962
16	Winterset	$16.15	5,421
17	Cresco	$16.13	3,890
18	Humboldt	$16.00	4,774
19	Anamosa	$15.95	5,845
20	Charles City	$15.95	7,081
21	Forest City	$15.77	4,199
22	Decorah	$15.52	7,454
23	Sheldon	$15.33	5,584
24	Estherville	$15.27	5,796
25	Washington	$15.21	7,281
26	Harlan	$15.07	4,898
27	Shenandoah	$15.02	4,878
28	Creston	$14.99	7,421
29	Manchester	$14.96	5,283
30	Jefferson	$14.88	4,148
31	Hampton	$14.86	4,340
32	Carlisle	$14.82	4,381
33	Cherokee	$14.82	5,186
34	Glenwood	$14.77	5,250
35	Waukon	$14.76	3,799
36	Nevada	$14.58	7,082
37	Monticello	$14.49	4,095
38	Osceola	$14.37	5,585
39	Windsor Heights	$14.30	5,106
40	Orange City	$14.01	6,547
41	Hiawatha	$13.78	7,347
42	Rock Valley	$13.76	4,024
43	Sergeant Bluff	$13.70	5,335
44	Emmetsburg	$13.70	3,632
45	Mount Vernon	$13.50	4,518
46	Adel	$13.43	6,763
47	Maquoketa	$12.85	6,064
48	Camanche	$12.75	4,536
49	Le Claire	$12.64	4,776
50	Tiffin	$11.80	6,695
51	Huxley	$11.68	4,737
52	Polk City	$11.00	6,430
53	Carter Lake	$10.67	3,752
54	Dyersville	$10.27	4,559
55	Spirit Lake	$10.17	5,548
56	Clear Lake	$9.85	7,602
57	Asbury	$8.32	6,051
58	Eldridge	$8.13	6,967
59	Evansdale	$8.00	4,515

The $8.10 limit

Centerville’s general levy is $8.14 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.04 above the limit; it has to come down in steps.⁴ 182 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.39 · FY26 $8.39 · FY27 $8.14 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $8.71 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$6.30 · $1.0M
Liability, property & self insurance costs$1.50 · $242,931
Debt Service Levy$0.87 · $145,428
Support of a Local Emerg. Mgmt. Comm.$0.03 · $5,100

Tax increment financing (TIF)

Centerville’s TIF revenue, from its reports to the state. It budgeted $36,073 in TIF revenue for FY25.

Year	TIF revenue
FY23	$11,188

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Year	TIF revenue
FY23	$11,188

The city’s levies, FY27

What the city raises from each levy. The general levy is capped by state law; the others are set aside for one purpose.

Consolidate General Fund$1.3M48%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$1.0M37%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$242,9319%
Debt Service Levy$145,4285%
Support of a Local Emerg. Mgmt. Comm.$5,1000%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Centerville’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending from all funds, including city-run utilities like water and sewer (“business type”), which some cities run and others don’t. Transfers between funds are left out. “Cities this size” is the average for the 58 Iowa cities closest in size (3,600–7,800 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (58)
Business Type / Enterprise	37¢	37¢
Public Safety	30¢	13¢
Public Works	16¢	8¢
Debt Service	6¢	7¢
Culture and Recreation	5¢	8¢
Everything else	6¢	8¢

Planned spending, FY27

All funds: property taxes, utility and other fees, state and federal money. “Business type” is city-run utilities and enterprises like water or sewer.

Public Safety$4.1M51%
Public Works$2.3M29%
Culture and Recreation$727,4199%
Community and Economic Development$366,2005%
General Government$357,0324%
Debt Service$154,0502%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($4.5M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$1.1M	$1.2M
Public Safety	$3.1M	$3.6M
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$247,474	$659,341
Debt Service	$1.3M	$658,088
Culture and Recreation	$570,200	$593,414
Community and Economic Development	$28,250	$278,559
Capital Projects	$10,000	$106,766
Business Type / Enterprise	$14.1M	$11.0M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$18.2M

$12.8M

State money

What the State of Iowa pays the city each year, and whether it has kept up with prices. Does state money keep pace? ⁷

What the state pays the city every year

Road Use Tax for streets, the commercial and industrial tax “backfill”, and ambulance reimbursement, paid every year by formula: $768,847 in FY25, down 5% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 24% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$960,384	$744,752	$764,459	$768,847
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$81,591	$75,637	$32,426	–

Grants and project money

State grants and money for specific projects (roads, development, natural resources) vary with what the city applies for and wins, so they aren’t counted as the state’s regular support.

$728,527

State grants$728,527100%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$3,966
FY20	$8,522
FY21	$18,385
FY22	$5,765
FY23	$77,849
FY24	$43,411
FY25	$728,527

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$3,966
FY20	$8,522
FY21	$18,385
FY22	$5,765
FY23	$77,849
FY24	$43,411
FY25	$728,527

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−17%$737,380 → $768,847, up 4% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 17% less

Collected by the state for the city

The local option sales tax is a city tax voters approved; the state collects it with the state sales tax and sends it back. It isn’t state aid. It’s up 47% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 17% more.

$842,191

$825,851

Federal grants, for comparison: $90,614 in FY24.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 3

Centerville City Council At-Large

Ronald Creagan Winner28634.8%
Jamie Sales 28134.2%
Karen Ballanger 25531.0%

Centerville City Council Ward 2

Kristopher Hoffman Unopposed189100.0%

Centerville Mayor

Michael G. O'Connor Winner52263.0%
Gary L. Burrows 30737.0%

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Centerville; official results are on each county auditor’s site.

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Cherielynn Westrich (Sen. 13)Austin Harris (Rep. 26)

U.S. House:District 3

Appanoose County Centerville schools

Notes

For a $200,000 home with the homestead credit, at the combined rate in most of the city. Some parts of the city pay a different rate (special districts, tax increment financing districts). ↩
Cities adopt their budgets each spring for the year starting July 1. ↩
FY27 rates from the Department of Management. A higher rate isn’t always a bigger bill: it depends on how much property there is to tax. Sizes: Census Bureau 2024 estimates. ↩
Iowa Code section 384.1, as changed by House File 718 (2023). Until FY25 a city’s regular general levy was capped at $8.10 by itself, and a city at the cap could add an emergency levy of up to $0.27. From FY25 the general levy and several smaller levies were combined into one “consolidated” general levy with an $8.10 limit; a city whose combined rate was above $8.10 lowers it in steps, in years its taxable value grows by more than the law allows, until it reaches $8.10. So years before FY25 aren’t directly comparable with later ones. ↩
Levies outside the limit are each set aside for one purpose and have their own rules: debt service pays back bonds voters or the council approved, employee benefits cover pensions and insurance, and some (transit, an airport, insurance costs) have their own caps in state law. ↩
The state’s FY24 spending file repeats the year before for nearly every Iowa city, so that year isn’t shown. ↩
From the city’s annual financial reports to the state (Iowa Data Hub, city actual revenues). “Today’s dollars” adjusts each year by the consumer price index for the Midwest, so a flat line in today’s dollars means the money buys the same as before. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Centerville; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Centerville works within. ↩

Sources: City budgets and levies from the Department of Management; tax rates from the Iowa Data Hub; state payments from the Department of Revenue; prices from the consumer price index; legislative districts from Census Bureau maps.

Centerville

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Centerville

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $8.71 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Centerville’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

State money

What the state pays the city every year

Grants and project money

Has it kept up with prices?

Collected by the state for the city

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress8

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $8.71 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸