Property Tax & Income in Irwin County, Georgia
Irwin County has an effective property tax rate of 1.07%. On the median home value of $105,600, that's roughly $1,132 per year. Median household income is $51,384.
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 | Irwin County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.07% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $105,600 | — |
| 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 Irwin County, GA
Irwin County’s effective property tax rate of 1.072% sits above Georgia’s statewide median of 0.859% and also exceeds the national median of 0.794%. Among the state’s 158 counties, it ranks 24th, placing it in the higher-taxing tier for Georgia. That gap shows up in real dollars: with a median home value of $105,600, the median annual real-estate tax bill comes to $1,132. Households earning the median income of $51,384, or per-capita income of $27,578, devote a meaningful share of earnings to property taxes compared with counties closer to the state norm. Ocilla, the largest of the county’s communities alongside Chula and Sycamore, anchors a rural area where home values stay low but the tax rate itself runs above both state and national averages — a combination that can weigh on affordability even when sticker prices look low.