Georgia · County property tax · ACS 2024
Taliaferro County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Taliaferro County pays $902 a year, an effective rate of 1.31%, far below the U.S. average.
- $902
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 1.31%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -55%
- vs U.S. average
- #4 of 158
- rank in GA
The verdict
Homeowners in Taliaferro County pay a median $902 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.31%, more affordable than 18% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $902
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.31%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2558 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -55%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($68,900). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Georgia. Population: 1,558. Owner-occupied homes: 483.
The median annual property tax in Taliaferro County is $902, which is 61% lower than the Georgia state average and 55% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.31% on a median home value of $68,900. Property taxes represent 1.7% of the median household income in this county.
Taliaferro County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Taliaferro County's 1.31% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 18%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Taliaferro County pay a median annual property tax of $902, far below the national median and far below the Georgia state median. On a $68,900 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.31% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Low among Georgia counties by effective rate
Taliaferro County ranks #4 of 158 counties in Georgia by effective rate (97% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Taliaferro County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.7% of the $52,500 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Taliaferro 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.
Most of the market's rise reached the bill
The effective rate here moved 9.7% down between 2020 and 2024, a smaller shift than in 61% of U.S. counties. With the median home value rose 8.5%, the median bill fell 2.1% to $902: the rate did comparatively little to offset the market.
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 $921 in 2020 to $902 in 2024, a fall of 2%. 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: 207 of 483 owner-occupied homes (42.9%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
This is the least forgiving PAIRING in the data, bottom-quartile household income with a top-quartile effective rate, putting the median bill at 1.7% of median household income. Neither figure is remarkable on its own; the combination is, and the ratio above is the only part of it a household actually feels.
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 Taliaferro County fell from $921 to $902, a change of -2.1%. 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.
Taliaferro County is an outlier inside Georgia
Across the 158 Georgia counties with a published rate, the average effective rate is 0.87%. Taliaferro County is at 1.31%, which sits 2.2 standard deviations above that average. Fewer than one county in twenty nationally is this far from its own state's centre, so a state-level average is a poor guide to what is owed here.
Standard deviations are computed across every county in the state with a published effective rate for 2024; states with fewer than five such counties are not assessed.
What Taliaferro County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Taliaferro County homeowners, 207 of 483 owner-occupied homes (42.9%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 42.9% (207)
- $800 to $1,499 21.7% (105)
- $1,500 to $1,999 9.5% (46)
- $2,000 to $2,999 10.4% (50)
- $3,000 or more 9.9% (48)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
27 homes here (5.6%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Georgia handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Taliaferro County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+78%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Taliaferro County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Taliaferro County's effective rate is higher than 97% of the 158 counties in Georgia - ranking #4 of 158.
Where Taliaferro County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.31% more affordable than 18% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
A high rate, a smaller bill
Taliaferro County taxes property at 1.31%, about 70% above the Georgia average, yet its median bill of $902 lands roughly 61% below it. The effective rate is the bill divided by the home's value, so a county can only sit on opposite sides of the state average this way when its homes are worth materially less than the state norm. The rate is the policy; the bill is what the housing market does with it.
Taliaferro County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Taliaferro County | Georgia Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate High rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.7% | - | - |
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.
Taliaferro County's STEEP · LIGHT lane - is an appeal worth running?
On Taliaferro County's published figures (STEEP · LIGHT), a $68,900 median home carries a $902 median bill, so every 10% off an assessed value is worth about $90 a year at the same rate. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Georgia.
Taliaferro County rate trail · STEEP
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $902 -1.6% | 1.31% |
| 2023 | $917 +3.9% | 1.25% |
| 2022 | $883 -6.3% | 1.28% |
| 2021 | $942 +2.3% | 1.44% |
| 2020 | $921 | 1.45% |
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.
Taliaferro County: tax takes only 1.7% of income
Counties near Taliaferro County's effective rate
On effective rate, Taliaferro County sits nearest Benton County (IA), Saline County (KS), Shiawassee County (MI).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Scott County (IL), Wells County (ND), Faulk County (SD).
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
IRS county file: no disclosed Taliaferro County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Taliaferro County. That is a limit of the published data rather than a finding about the county: county-level figures are withheld where the counts are too small to disclose safely, which is common in places with few filers. Roughly one county in sixteen is in this position, so the filer view available elsewhere on this site is simply not available here. Source: IRS Statistics of Income county data.
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Taliaferro County rate FAQs
- How does Taliaferro County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Taliaferro County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.31% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Taliaferro County, Georgia?
- The median annual property tax in Taliaferro County is $902, an effective rate of 1.31% on a $68,900 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Taliaferro County?
- Taliaferro County, Georgia scores C (55/100) 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+ (1.31×). 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Taliaferro County?
- Property taxes in Taliaferro County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.7% of the $52,500 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Taliaferro County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Taliaferro County eased 2.1% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $921 to $902, 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 Taliaferro County's STEEP rate
Taliaferro County's $902 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 1.7% of Taliaferro County's $52,500 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Taliaferro County's STEEP effective rate, then a disjoint out-of-state bill set so the two neighborhoods stay distinct.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 1.31%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $902/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Taliaferro County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Taliaferro County (STEEP · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
STEEP LIGHT
Otero County, NM
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Taliaferro County at $902/yr; rate 0.55% vs Taliaferro County 1.31%.
Calhoun County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $903/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.11% vs Taliaferro County 1.31%.
Grainger County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $901/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.48% vs Taliaferro County 1.31%.
Kidder County, ND
ABS(median_tax) peer · $903/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.58% vs Taliaferro County 1.31%.
Georgia county set
State ACS overview for every published Georgia county rate and median bill.
Appeal filing windows
Taliaferro County stamps STEEP · LIGHT - review notice deadlines before quoting the ACS median.
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 Taliaferro County (STEEP · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.