Property Tax & Income in Jackson County, Georgia
Jackson County has an effective property tax rate of 0.87%. On the median home value of $345,000, that's roughly $3,000 per year. Median household income is $89,544.
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 | Jackson County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.87% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $345,000 | — |
| 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 Jackson County, GA
In Jackson County, Georgia, a median home value of $345,000 comes with an annual real-estate tax bill of about $3,000, based on an effective rate of 0.870%. That rate edges past Georgia's statewide median of 0.859% and sits clearly above the national figure of 0.794%, placing the county 75th among 158 Georgia counties for property tax rate. Households here earn a median of $89,544, with per-capita income at $37,040, so the tax bill amounts to roughly 3.3% of typical household earnings. Buyers weighing Jefferson, Nicholson, and other communities in the county should know that housing costs and tax rates both run somewhat higher than the state and national benchmarks, meaning affordability depends as much on purchase price as on the rate itself.