Georgia · County property tax · ACS 2024
Whitfield County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Whitfield County pays $1,391 a year, an effective rate of 0.64%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,391
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.64%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -30%
- vs U.S. average
- #142 of 158
- rank in GA
The verdict
Homeowners in Whitfield County pay a median $1,391 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.64%, more affordable than 67% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,391
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.64%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1040 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -30%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($218,000). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Georgia. Population: 103,598. Owner-occupied homes: 24,680.
The median annual property tax in Whitfield County is $1,391, which is 41% lower than the Georgia state average and 30% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.64% on a median home value of $218,000. Property taxes represent 2.1% of the median household income in this county.
Whitfield County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Whitfield County's 0.64% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 67%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Whitfield County pay a median annual property tax of $1,391, well below the national median and well below the Georgia state median. On a $218,000 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.64% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
High among Georgia counties by effective rate
Whitfield County ranks #142 of 158 counties in Georgia by effective rate (10% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Whitfield County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $67,070 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Whitfield 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.
A falling rate took the edge off
Whitfield County's effective rate fell 16.8% across the 4-year span while its median home value rose 52.7%, leaving the median bill 27.0% higher at $1,391. That rate move is larger than the one in 72% of counties, so a good deal of the market's rise never reached the bill.
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
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 27% from $1,095 to $1,391. 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: 6,589 of 24,680 owner-occupied homes (26.7%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Above-median earnings meet a slightly-below-median rate, and the median bill amounts to 2.1% of median household income. That is the comfortable middle of this dataset, and comfortable middles are easy to overlook when only rankings get published.
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 Whitfield County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Whitfield County homeowners, 6,589 of 24,680 owner-occupied homes (26.7%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 26.7% (6,589)
- $800 to $1,499 24.2% (5,964)
- $1,500 to $1,999 15.1% (3,734)
- $2,000 to $2,999 14.4% (3,563)
- $3,000 or more 13.7% (3,388)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
1,442 homes here (5.8%) 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 Whitfield County pay a substantially higher bill, 55% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Whitfield County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Whitfield County's effective rate is higher than 10% of the 158 counties in Georgia - ranking #142 of 158.
Where Whitfield County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.64% Among the most affordable more affordable than 67% of 3,135 U.S. counties
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Whitfield County moved from $1,095 in the 2020 release to $1,391 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.
Whitfield County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Whitfield County | Georgia Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.1% | - | - |
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.
Whitfield County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Georgia counties.
Whitfield County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,391 +3.9% | 0.64% |
| 2023 | $1,339 +4.9% | 0.67% |
| 2022 | $1,276 +9.8% | 0.73% |
| 2021 | $1,162 +6.1% | 0.77% |
| 2020 | $1,095 | 0.77% |
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.
Whitfield County: tax-to-income at 2.1%
Counties near Whitfield County's effective rate
On effective rate, Whitfield County sits nearest Wakulla County (FL), Baker County (FL), Siskiyou County (CA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Humphreys County (TN), Canyon County (ID), Watauga County (NC).
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
Whitfield County: only 4% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 1,760 of 45,210 returns from Whitfield County reported real estate taxes, averaging $3,644 - 32% 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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Whitfield County rate FAQs
- What is the average property tax in Whitfield County, Georgia?
- The median annual property tax in Whitfield County is $1,391, an effective rate of 0.64% on a $218,000 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- How does Whitfield County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Whitfield County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.64% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the tax affordability score for Whitfield County?
- Whitfield County, Georgia scores C (56/100) 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 rate relief at B- (0.64%). 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 Whitfield County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Whitfield County jumped 27.0% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,095 to $1,391, 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Whitfield County?
- Property taxes in Whitfield County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $67,070 median household income.
What to do with Whitfield County's QUIET rate
Whitfield County's $1,391 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 →
Whitfield County ranks #142 of 158 Georgia counties by effective rate - on the lower-burden half of the state ACS set. Georgia overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Whitfield County's QUIET 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: 0.64%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,391/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Whitfield County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Whitfield County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Glacier County, MT
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Whitfield County at $1,391/yr; rate 0.84% vs Whitfield County 0.64%.
McDuffie County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Whitfield County at $1,391/yr; rate 0.82% vs Whitfield County 0.64%.
Prairie County, MT
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Whitfield County at $1,391/yr; rate 0.84% vs Whitfield County 0.64%.
Clay County, IL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,392/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.43% vs Whitfield County 0.64%.
Georgia county set
State ACS overview for every published Georgia county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Whitfield County stamps QUIET · 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 Whitfield County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.