Property Tax in Catoosa County, Georgia

What the Catoosa County numbers mean

Read the two medians together: $1,475 is the middle tax bill among owner-occupied households in Catoosa County, and $214,200 is the middle home value. Neither figure describes a specific property — together they describe the typical homeowner's situation in the county.

The derived effective rate for Catoosa County is 0.69% (median tax ÷ median value). Treat it as an estimate for comparison only: it comes from survey medians of different households, not from the county's rate schedule.

The key figures for Catoosa County

For context, the Georgia medians are $2,214 of tax on $272,900 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Catoosa County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Georgia: #64 of 159 counties
• Median home value rank in Georgia: #47 of 159
• Population rank in Georgia: #36 of 159 (68,356 residents)
• Population density rank: #23 of 159 (422 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Georgia: #152 of 159 (162 sq mi, 0.3% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $123; per $1,000 of home value: $0.69

How Catoosa County compares

Of the 159 Georgia counties with published data, 63 have a higher median property tax bill than Catoosa County's $1,475, putting the county at #64 in the state. Its bill is about 33% lower than the state median of $2,214 and about 50% lower than the national median of $2,969.

Rates and values pull in opposite directions: an expensive housing market can produce big bills at ordinary rates. Here the derived rate is 0.69%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #47 within Georgia.

Some extra context for Catoosa County: the median bill works out to about $123 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $689 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 68,356 people — the #36 most populous county in Georgia, spread over 162 square miles, a density of about 422 people per square mile. Its median home value, $214,200, ranks #47 among the state's 159 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 1658 record a higher median tax bill than Catoosa County — it sits in the top 53% nationally. The county holds roughly 0.6% of Georgia's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $214,200 versus $272,900), and a decade at the derived rate of 0.69% adds up to about 6.89% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, Wheeler County, medians $562 — $913 less than Catoosa County per year.

Counties nearest Catoosa County in the Georgia ranking

Catoosa County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Catoosa County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 68,356 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Catoosa County's median bill of $1,475 is #5 of 9.

The closest population match is Lincoln County, South Dakota (68,286 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $3,822 on a median home value of $323,500 — $2,347 less than Catoosa County pays.

Inside Georgia itself, the counties closest to Catoosa County in population are Troup County (69,821 residents, median tax $1,826 on a median value of $187,800); Walker County (68,449 residents, median tax $1,353 on a median value of $173,900); Spalding County (68,215 residents, median tax $1,897 on a median value of $196,600); Effingham County (67,265 residents, median tax $2,344 on a median value of $245,300). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

How the tax is worked out

As an illustration of the arithmetic: at Catoosa County's derived rate of 0.69%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $2,756 a year. That is only an illustration using the derived rate — a real bill is computed from the property's assessed value, its exemptions, and the combined rates of its specific taxing districts, so it can be higher or lower.

The usual sequence is: the local assessor values the property; exemptions are applied; the taxable value is multiplied by the combined local rates; and the county bills and collects the tax, distributing it to the schools, municipalities and districts that levied it.

Illustrative bills in Catoosa County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.69% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Catoosa County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.81% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Catoosa County

Most successful appeals are won on facts, not arguments. Start with the property record card held by the Catoosa County assessor: wrong square footage, an extra room, or a missing homestead exemption are common and fixable. Next, line your assessed value up against recent sales of genuinely similar homes nearby. Many disputes end at an informal conversation with the assessor's office; if yours does not, file the formal appeal with the review board named on your notice before its deadline, evidence attached, and keep paying the bill in the meantime so penalties do not build up.

More Georgia counties

• Walker County, GA — $1,353
• Spalding County, GA — $1,897
• Effingham County, GA — $2,344
• Troup County, GA — $1,826
• Liberty County, GA — $1,897
• Gordon County, GA — $1,450

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