Property Tax & Income in Henry County, Georgia
Henry County has an effective property tax rate of 0.87%. On the median home value of $313,900, that's roughly $2,741 per year. Median household income is $83,146.
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 | Henry County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.87% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $313,900 | — |
| 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 Henry County, GA
Henry County, Georgia, carries an effective property tax rate of 0.873%, which sits above both the statewide median of 0.859% and the national median of 0.794%. That places the county 70th among Georgia's 158 counties, a middle-of-the-pack position that signals slightly heavier taxation than much of the country and a touch more than the state as a whole. On a median home value of $313,900, the median annual real-estate tax bill comes to $2,741. With median household income at $83,146 and per-capita income of $36,804, that bill amounts to a bit over 3% of household earnings. Communities such as Mcdonough anchor the county, which blends suburban Atlanta access with a tax load that leans just past the state norm rather than far beyond it.