Property Tax & Income in Worth County, Georgia
Worth County has an effective property tax rate of 1.13%. On the median home value of $104,900, that's roughly $1,185 per year. Median household income is $58,694.
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 | Worth County | Georgia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.13% | 0.86% |
| Median home value1 | $104,900 | — |
| 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 Worth County, GA
Buying in Worth County means weighing a higher tax rate against much lower home prices. At 1.130%, the effective property tax rate here sits well above Georgia's 0.859% median and ranks 14th among the state's 158 counties, so owners pay proportionally more than in most of Georgia. Yet the median home value of $104,900 keeps the actual bill at $1,185 a year — a figure shaped as much by cheap housing as by the rate itself. Households earning the median $58,694 would devote roughly two percent of that income to property taxes. Per-capita income stands at $28,145. Communities like Oakfield, Poulan, and Sumner anchor this rural county, where low purchase prices and a comparatively steep rate combine into a yearly tax obligation that stays small in dollar terms even though the percentage lags behind much of the state.