Kentucky · County property tax · ACS 2024
Carlisle County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Carlisle County pays $945 a year, an effective rate of 0.78%, far below the U.S. average.
- $945
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.78%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -53%
- vs U.S. average
- #30 of 120
- rank in KY
The verdict
Homeowners in Carlisle County pay a median $945 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.78%, more affordable than 52% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $945
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.78%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1507 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -53%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($120,400). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Kentucky. Population: 4,762. Owner-occupied homes: 1,499.
The median annual property tax in Carlisle County is $945, which is 39% lower than the Kentucky state average and 53% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.78% on a median home value of $120,400. Property taxes represent 1.5% of the median household income in this county.
Why Carlisle County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Carlisle County pay a median annual property tax of $945, far below the national median and well below the Kentucky state median. On a $120,400 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.78% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Carlisle County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.5% of the $62,439 median household income.
Decision signal 3
Low among Kentucky counties by effective rate
Carlisle County ranks #30 of 120 counties in Kentucky by effective rate (75% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
The latest release moved the bill up
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has ticked up 6.5%, from $887 to $945. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Decision signal 5
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Carlisle County's 0.78% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 52%).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Carlisle County as reported to the Census Bureau; your parcel can differ. Not tax, legal, or financial advice: check the county assessor or a qualified professional before decisions that depend on these numbers.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 27% from $743 to $945. These ACS medians describe the reported change; they do not identify whether a levy, assessment, home value, or change in the responding households caused it.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 553 of 1,499 owner-occupied homes (36.9%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Both figures cluster near the middle of the national range, and the median bill comes to 1.5% of median household income. Counties like this are the reason a national average exists at all, and also the reason it explains so little.
The share above is the median annual bill divided by median household income, a ratio of two county-level medians rather than a household-by-household figure.
What Carlisle County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Carlisle County homeowners, 553 of 1,499 owner-occupied homes (36.9%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 36.9% (553)
- $800 to $1,499 31.4% (470)
- $1,500 to $1,999 7.9% (118)
- $2,000 to $2,999 7.4% (111)
- $3,000 or more 5.2% (78)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
169 homes here (11.3%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how Kentucky handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Carlisle County pay a substantially higher bill, 40% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Carlisle County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Carlisle County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Carlisle County's median bill is 39% below the Kentucky median and 53% below the U.S. median.
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Carlisle County moved from $743 in the 2020 release to $945 in 2024, a change of about 27%. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates compared across releases that share only one sample year, which is why this page never compares consecutive releases: those overlap in four years of the same households and move mostly on sampling.
Carlisle County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Carlisle County | Kentucky Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.5% | - | - |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates. Tax-burden differences across rows reflect millage decisions, assessment-ratio practices, and the residential-vs-commercial mix of each tax base.
Carlisle County is UNDER · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Kentucky counties.
Carlisle County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $945 +6.5% | 0.78% |
| 2023 | $887 +9.2% | 0.85% |
| 2022 | $812 +12.8% | 0.90% |
| 2021 | $720 -3.1% | 0.89% |
| 2020 | $743 | 0.89% |
Each row is a separate ACS 5-year release, and consecutive releases share four of their five survey years. The percentage beside each bill is therefore movement in the published estimate against the previous release, not a single year's tax change. The two releases largely describe the same households. For change over time, compare releases that do not overlap.
Carlisle County: tax takes only 1.5% of income
Counties near Carlisle County's median bill
On effective rate, Carlisle County sits nearest Pike County (IN), Boone County (IN), Nez Perce County (ID).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Fairfield County (OH), Calhoun County (GA), Clay County (IN).
How peers are chosen
These are the nearest cross-state matches in the published Census data, not neighboring counties or recommendations. Peers are rebuilt with each data release; see the calculation method.
Similar effective rates
Similar published median-tax changes, 2020–2024
Carlisle County: only 3% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 60 of 2,050 returns from Carlisle County reported real estate taxes, averaging $2,267 - 67% of those reporters sat in the $100-200k AGI band.
What this IRS county file does not say
Amounts are reported before the SALT cap, not deducted; the share is of filers, not homeowners. Source: IRS SOI county data, tax year 2022.
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Carlisle County bill FAQs
- How does Carlisle County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Carlisle County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.78% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Carlisle County?
- Property taxes in Carlisle County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.5% of the $62,439 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Carlisle County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Carlisle County is recorded at $945 in the 2024 5-year release against $743 in 2020. That is a large swing, and it should be read as movement in a survey estimate rather than as a tax change: the median here rests on about 1,499 owner-occupied homes, and swings above 50% are roughly twelve times more common in the smallest counties than in the largest. Treat the two figures as imprecise and check the county assessor for actual rate changes.
- What is the average property tax in Carlisle County, Kentucky?
- The median annual property tax in Carlisle County is $945, an effective rate of 0.78% on a $120,400 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Carlisle County?
- Carlisle County, Kentucky scores B- (69/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 5 Census ACS dimensions (effective rate, bill size, income share, mortgage gap, and home-value/income). Its strongest scored dimension here is housing pressure at A+ (1.93×). The score compares published county medians to U.S. percentiles, it is not a personal bill and not advice to buy, sell, appeal, or relocate.
What to do with Carlisle County's LIGHT bill
Carlisle County's $945 median bill sits well below the U.S. median - still size a parcel estimate; local millage and exemptions move the real bill. Estimate your bill →
Income burden is light here: about 1.5% of Carlisle County's $62,439 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Carlisle County's LIGHT median, then a disjoint out-of-state rate set, not the same-state geography lattice.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.78%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $945/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Carlisle County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Carlisle County (UNDER · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER LIGHT
Pope County, AR
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Carlisle County at $945/yr; rate 0.56% vs Carlisle County 0.78%.
Horry County, SC
ABS(median_tax) peer · $944/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.33% vs Carlisle County 0.78%.
McCormick County, SC
ABS(median_tax) peer · $948/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.56% vs Carlisle County 0.78%.
Pittsylvania County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $948/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.59% vs Carlisle County 0.78%.
Kentucky county set
State ACS overview for every published Kentucky county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Carlisle County stamps UNDER · LIGHT - how assessed value and millage become the ACS median bill.
Data vintage and method
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
Property tax data reflects median amounts paid by homeowners. Effective rates are calculated as median tax divided by median home value.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, county median real-estate taxes · 2024 Carlisle County (UNDER · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.