Property Tax & Income in Laurens County, Georgia
Laurens County has an effective property tax rate of 0.66%. On the median home value of $154,500, that's roughly $1,021 per year. Median household income is $55,010.
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 | Laurens County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.66% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $154,500 | — |
| 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 Laurens County, GA
Laurens County’s effective property tax rate of 0.661% sits comfortably below Georgia’s statewide median of 0.859%, and it also undercuts the national median of 0.794%. That gap matters: only 20 of Georgia’s 158 counties levy a lower effective rate, placing Laurens at 138th statewide. The median home value here is $154,500, producing an annual real-estate tax bill of about $1,021 — a figure shaped as much by moderate home prices as by the rate itself. Households earning a median of $55,010, with per-capita income at $31,751, may find that bill less demanding than what many homeowners elsewhere face. Communities such as Rockledge, Cadwell, and Dexter share in this pattern. What the ranking signals is a county where property taxes take a comparatively restrained share of local income, though lower values also mean a narrower tax base for funding public services.