Wales Township property taxes & housing data

By Cyrus Wheeler, Broker/Owner · Updated September 29, 2026 · Michigan Dept. of Treasury 2025 Total Rates

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Homestead (PRE) applies to your primary residence. Non-homestead applies to rentals and second homes. Dollar columns are the annual bill at the uncapped taxable value — half the purchase price — at the homestead rate.

How Wales Township compares in St. Clair County

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For sale in Wales Township right now

5 active listings in Wales Township — the 5 newest below. Remember: every one of them uncaps the year after closing, so the bill you should budget is the uncapped one above, not the seller's.

$399,900

760 Palms DR · Wales Township

3 bd · 2 ba · 1,560 sqft

Listing courtesy of Real Estate One Chesterfield

$549,900

10010 Alpine RD · Wales Township

3 bd · 4 ba · 5,230 sqft

Listing courtesy of Community Choice Realty Inc.

$624,900

341 Nolan RD · Wales Township

4 bd · 3 ba · 2,557 sqft

Listing courtesy of LPT Realty

$314,900

794 Cove RD · Wales Township

3 bd · 2 ba · 1,500 sqft

Listing courtesy of Coldwell Banker Professionals

$629,000

7627 Lapeer Road · Wales Township

3 bd · 1 ba · 1,119 sqft

Listing courtesy of Real Estate Masters

IDX provided courtesy of Realcomp II Ltd. via Match Realty LLC and MiRealSource, Realcomp II Ltd, ©2026 Realcomp II Ltd. Shareholders. The accuracy of all information, regardless of source, is not guaranteed or warranted. All information should be independently verified. Listings refreshed 2026-11-03T10:57+00:00; refreshed at least twice daily.

Compare Wales Township with another community

Wales Township has 21 side-by-side comparisons, 20 of them with a community that shares a school district — same schools, different bill. Dollar columns are the annual homestead bill on a $350,000 home at the uncapped taxable value, and the last column is the difference against Wales Township.

Look up, pay and appeal your Wales Township taxes

Wales Township bills twice a year. The summer bill is issued July 1 and the winter bill December 1; most communities make them due September 14 and February 14, and anything still unpaid on March 1 moves to the county treasurer as delinquent, with interest added monthly. Both bills are collected by the Wales Township treasurer, so the balance on a specific parcel is on the city or township site first (most of Southeast Michigan uses BS&A Online for this) and on the county site once it is late.

• St. Clair County property tax & maps search — parcel and tax search for Saint Clair County addresses.
• St. Clair County Treasurer — where a bill goes once it is delinquent: balances, payment plans and the hardship deferral.
• Estimate a bill before you look one up — the figure on the current owner's statement is capped; this gives you the uncapped one.

Appealing the assessment

Assessment notices go out in late February. If the assessed value is more than half of what the house would actually sell for, the appeal runs in two steps and the first one cannot be skipped: the March Board of Review in Wales Township (dates and the petition form are on the assessor's notice), then, if the board does not move, a petition to the Michigan Tax Tribunal by July 31 for residential property. The July and December boards do not re-value: they correct qualified errors (clerical mistakes, mutual mistakes of fact, a wrong principal residence exemption) and hear poverty exemptions. A successful appeal lowers the assessed value, not the millage — the 25.7073–30.1934 mills above apply to whatever value stands after it.

A home bought this year is a special case: the taxable value uncaps to the assessed value next year regardless of the appeal, so the number to check on the first notice after closing is the assessed value against the price you paid.

What it's like to own in Wales Twp

Beyond the tax rate, three things shape what owning in Wales Twp actually costs: the age of the homes, what the water utility reports at the tap, and what local air testing has turned up. Each figure below carries the date of the survey it came from.

Lead is measured at the water system, not the house — it cannot tell you whether a specific property has a lead service line. Radon is a ZIP-level test distribution, not a prediction for any one home; the EPA recommends testing every home regardless. Screening information only.

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