Georgia · County property tax · ACS 2024
Chattahoochee County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Chattahoochee County pays $856 a year, an effective rate of 0.83%, far below the U.S. average.
- $856
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.83%
- Effective rate · Above-median rate
- -57%
- vs U.S. average
- #92 of 158
- rank in GA
The verdict
Homeowners in Chattahoochee County pay a median $856 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.83%, more affordable than 48% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $856
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.83%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1639 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -57%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($102,700). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Georgia. Population: 8,887. Owner-occupied homes: 733.
The median annual property tax in Chattahoochee County is $856, which is 63% lower than the Georgia state average and 57% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.83% on a median home value of $102,700. Property taxes represent 1.4% of the median household income in this county.
Why Chattahoochee County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Chattahoochee County pay a median annual property tax of $856, far below the national median and far below the Georgia state median. On a $102,700 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.83% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Chattahoochee County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.4% of the $61,042 median household income.
Decision signal 3
Near the middle of Georgia counties by effective rate
Chattahoochee County ranks #92 of 158 counties in Georgia by effective rate (42% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Chattahoochee County's 0.83% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 48%).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Chattahoochee 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.
The rate gave way faster than almost anywhere
Between the 2020 and 2024 releases the median home value in Chattahoochee County rose 25.2%, from $82,000 to $102,700. The effective rate fell 21.2% over the same span, a steeper move than in 86% of U.S. counties.
The median bill still fell 1.3%, to $856. Where the rate drops this far and the bill rises anyway, what changed is the value the rate is applied to.
Effective rate is the published median bill divided by the published median home value, so the two multiply back to the bill exactly; the rate's movement here is derived from those two figures rather than read from the rounded published rate. Both are ACS 5-year survey estimates for the median owner-occupied household, compared across non-overlapping releases. They describe what the Census published, not a local policy, assessment, or exemption change.
How to read this county's bill
This is one of the counties where the typical bill came down, from $867 in 2020 to $856 in 2024, a fall of 1%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 284 of 733 owner-occupied homes (38.7%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Earnings are below the national midpoint while the rate is above it, and the median bill equals 1.4% of median household income. The gap between those two positions is the whole story on this page.
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.
The published bill went DOWN here
Between the 2020 and 2024 ACS releases the median annual property tax in Chattahoochee County fell from $867 to $856, a change of -1.3%. Fewer than three counties in a hundred recorded any decline over this period; nearly everywhere else the published figure rose. A fall can reflect reassessment, a shifting mix of the homes surveyed, or genuine rate relief, and these estimates cannot separate those causes.
Paying off the mortgage changes the picture here
23.9% of Chattahoochee County homes owned free and clear (121 of 506) report no property tax at all, against 4.8% of homes still carrying a mortgage. A reported zero is not proof of an exemption: it can equally mean a bill paid by another party, or a reporting artefact. But a gap this size is where age- and disability-based relief usually shows up, because those programmes reach owners who have finished paying.
What Chattahoochee County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Chattahoochee County homeowners, 284 of 733 owner-occupied homes (38.7%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 38.7% (284)
- $800 to $1,499 23.9% (175)
- $1,500 to $1,999 9.4% (69)
- $2,000 to $2,999 4.0% (29)
- $3,000 or more 6.0% (44)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
132 homes here (18.0%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how Georgia handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Chattahoochee County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+152%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Chattahoochee County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Chattahoochee County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Chattahoochee County's median bill is 63% below the Georgia median and 57% below the U.S. median.
Same rate as Georgia, a smaller bill
The effective rate here sits within 8% of the Georgia median, yet the median bill runs 63% below it. When the rate matches and the cheque does not, the difference is in what is being taxed, not how heavily: the same percentage applied to cheaper housing produces $856 here. That is why comparing counties on rate alone can invert the answer a homeowner actually cares about.
Chattahoochee County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Chattahoochee County | Georgia Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Above-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.4% | - | - |
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.
Chattahoochee County is UNDER · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Georgia counties.
Chattahoochee County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $856 -13.4% | 0.83% |
| 2023 | $988 -10.4% | 0.99% |
| 2022 | $1,103 +12.4% | 0.85% |
| 2021 | $981 +13.1% | 0.88% |
| 2020 | $867 | 1.06% |
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.
Chattahoochee County: tax takes only 1.4% of income
Counties near Chattahoochee County's median bill
On effective rate, Chattahoochee County sits nearest Madison County (FL), DeSoto County (FL), Contra Costa County (CA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Storey County (NV), Stanton County (KS), Union County (IL).
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
Chattahoochee County: only 1% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 30 of 2,840 returns from Chattahoochee County reported real estate taxes, averaging $2,767 - 100% 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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Chattahoochee County bill FAQs
- How does Chattahoochee County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Chattahoochee County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.83% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Chattahoochee County?
- Property taxes in Chattahoochee County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.4% of the $61,042 median household income.
- What is the average property tax in Chattahoochee County, Georgia?
- The median annual property tax in Chattahoochee County is $856, an effective rate of 0.83% on a $102,700 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Chattahoochee County?
- Chattahoochee County, Georgia scores C+ (64/100) 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+ (1.68×). 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.
- Are property taxes increasing in Chattahoochee County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Chattahoochee County held roughly steady, down 1.3% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $867 to $856, a 4-year span. These are survey estimates covering five years each, so this compares the two releases furthest apart rather than consecutive ones, which overlap and would mostly measure the same households twice.
What to do with Chattahoochee County's LIGHT bill
Chattahoochee County's $856 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 1.4% of Chattahoochee County's $61,042 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Chattahoochee 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: 0.83%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $856/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Chattahoochee County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Chattahoochee County (UNDER · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER LIGHT
Chester County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Chattahoochee County at $856/yr; rate 0.52% vs Chattahoochee County 0.83%.
Polk County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Chattahoochee County at $856/yr; rate 0.50% vs Chattahoochee County 0.83%.
Greensville County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $855/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.54% vs Chattahoochee County 0.83%.
Mecklenburg County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $859/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.45% vs Chattahoochee County 0.83%.
Georgia county set
State ACS overview for every published Georgia county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Chattahoochee 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 Chattahoochee County (UNDER · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.