FY 2009/10 Property Tax Rates (as of 7/10/2009)

 (approximate values for tax bills to be sent out during August 2009 for payment by Jan 2010 - links below for actual rate tables for county/cities.  To search for tax rate and assessed value for any specific house click on sidebar 'Property Tax Record Search")

County/City/Schools                                                                            $ Rate per $1000 of valuation

                                                                                                       FY 2007/8             FY 2008/9               FY 2009/10

Orange / Orange County Schools                                               1.00                      1.06                      0.858
Orange / Chapel Hill Schools                                                      1.20                      1.31                      1.046
Orange / Chapel Hill City / Chapel Hill Schools                       1.68                      1.81                      1.540
Orange / Carrboro City / Chapel Hill Schools                           1.81                      1.91                      1.636
Orange / Hillsborough City (Orange County Schools)             1.59                     1.67                      1.478
Durham / Chapel Hill City (Durham County Schools)             1.35                      1.29                      1.198
Durham / Durham City                                                                   1.42                      1.25                      1.248
Chatham (range includes any fire district or city)                0.68-1.07           0.71 - 1.10             0.66-1.05
Wake (range includes any fire district or city)                      1.08-1.30            0.87 - 1.10             0.86-1.07

$500,000 assessed value in Carrboro:  5000 x 1.636 = $8180 annual property tax
$500,000 assessed value in Chatham: 5000 x 0.660 = $33000 annual property tax

Note: above rates are approximate and for comparative purposes only. For example, Orange County has about 22 different rates.  Within each county there may be specific school and / or city taxes or fire districts with various rates.

For Chatham County Tax Tables for various cities and fire areas: www.chathamnc.org/Index.aspx

For Durham County Tax Tables for various cities and fire districts: www.durhamcountync.gov/departments/txad/Tax_Rates.html

For Orange County Tax Tables for various cities and fire districts: www.co.orange.nc.us/revenue/tax_rates.asp

For Wake County Tax Tables for various cities and fire districts: www.wakegov.com/NR/rdonlyres/AC8EA9E6-C572-4C65-8B15-8AC9CAB2D1B0/0/TaxRates2007.pdf

For specific county tax rates throughout North Carolina and the reasons driving increases click on the following link:  www.ncacc.org/taxrates08.html

To contact me with any questions, click billfreeman@frgnc.com


Assessed valuations:

By NC law each county must reassess property values to "market" at least every eight years. Actual revaluations occur every 3 to 8 years depending on the county. The valuation process is separate from the tax rate process.  With the new higher valuations, tax rates declined.

All new valuations are available on line.

 Last Assessments:  Durham County  2008, Wake County 2008, Chatham 2009, Orange 2009

 

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