Property Tax & Income in Bartow County, Georgia
Bartow County has an effective property tax rate of 0.70%. On the median home value of $289,000, that's roughly $2,024 per year. Median household income is $82,243.
What you'll pay, at a glance
Property taxes are the largest local tax most homeowners pay. The effective rate measures the real tax bill as a share of home value — a more useful number than the nominal “mill rate,” because assessment practices vary county to county.
| Metric | Bartow County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.70% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $289,000 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 5.19% | top rate 5.19% |
| State sales tax3 | 7.56% combined | 7.56% combined |
How this is calculated
The effective property tax rate is the median real-estate tax bill divided by the median home value — both for owner-occupied homes, from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 5-year estimates)1. Median income is also from the ACS1. Federal and state income-tax figures use IRS2 and Tax Foundation3 data.
About Bartow County, GA
Bartow County’s 0.700% effective property tax rate sits below both the Georgia median of 0.859% and the national median of 0.794%. Among the state’s 158 counties, it ranks 129th by rate, placing it among the lower-taxing jurisdictions in Georgia. A home valued at the county median of $289,000 carries an annual real-estate tax bill of about $2,024, set against a median household income of $82,243 and per-capita income of $36,075. Cartersville, the largest of the county’s principal communities alongside Acworth and Adairsville, anchors much of this tax base. The gap between Bartow’s rate and the state figure signals that property owners here surrender a smaller share of home value to taxes than in most Georgia counties, though the difference from the national median is narrower.