Property tax in Carroll County, Arkansas

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In Carroll County, the property tax bill comes from the Carroll County Tax Collector. The 2025 bill is due October 15, 2026. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from Carroll County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in Carroll County, Arkansas is $1,082 a year, which is about 0.51% of the county's median home value of $210,400. That effective rate is about the same as the typical Arkansas county (0.51%) and lower than the national median (0.81%). These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024); your own bill depends on your home's assessed value and any exemptions.

Who sends the property tax bill in Carroll County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the Carroll County Tax Collector. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Carroll County Assessor, which is who to ask if the value looks wrong. For how to look up and pay the bill, go to the county's own payment information.

The Assessor values property and the Collector sends the bill and collects it for the county, cities, schools and improvement districts; both offices are at 108 Spring Street in Berryville. Some county pages still give August 20 as the appeal deadline, October 8 for a County Court appeal, and April 15 and July 15 as installment dates; the current schedule and state law use the third Monday of August, the second Monday of October, and the third Monday of April and July. The county's online payment button goes to its records vendor's payment site, and card payments at the Collector's counter carry a fee. Mortgage companies paying from escrow must pay within 60 days of March 1.

When are property taxes due in Carroll County?

For the 2025 (payable 2026) bill, Carroll County has one due date: October 15, 2026. Arkansas collects property tax a year behind, so the 2025 tax is due October 15, 2026 (a Thursday). The Collector takes payments from March 1 through October 15. You may instead pay in installments, due by the third Monday in April and the third Monday in July with the balance by October 15; a 10% penalty is added to any installment paid late. Under state rules, when October 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday the deadline moves to the next business day, which it does not this year. Real and personal property taxes not paid by October 15 are delinquent, and the Collector adds a 10% penalty under state law.

From Carroll County's published schedule, checked September 23, 2026. If a date falls on a weekend or holiday, the county's own rules on the next business day apply.

Estimate the property tax on a home in Carroll County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Carroll County's average effective rate of 0.51% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Home market value

Estimated property tax: $1,073 / year

Property tax in Carroll County at a glance

Carroll County, Arkansas property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$1,082
Median home value	$210,400
Effective tax rate	0.51%
Typical Arkansas county rate	0.51%
National median county rate	0.81%

Effective rate = median real estate taxes paid divided by median home value. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

How does Carroll County compare in Arkansas?

Among Arkansas's 75 counties, Carroll County has the 38th highest effective property-tax rate: 37 rank higher and 37 rank lower. That is near the middle for Arkansas. Nationally, it ranks 2602nd of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Arkansas county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Carroll County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Carroll County's 8,792 owner-occupied homes, 9.6% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 21.8% pay at least $2,000, and 31.6% pay under $800. Another 3.8% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Annual property tax paid by Carroll County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	2,780	31.6%
$800 to $1,499	2,827	32.2%
$1,500 to $1,999	934	10.6%
$2,000 to $2,999	1,075	12.2%
$3,000 or more	845	9.6%
No property tax paid	331	3.8%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,233 and owners without one pay $973. Owners who have paid off a home have usually held it longer, and in states that cap how fast an existing owner's assessment can rise, long-held homes carry lower assessed values. Census table B25103.

How does the Carroll County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $1,082 is about 1.7% of the median income of Carroll County homeowner households, $65,435 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 77.5% of Carroll County's occupied homes are lived in by their owners; renters pay property tax too, just folded into rent.

Have property taxes gone up in Carroll County?

The survey cannot tell. The median bill was $983 in 2015-2019 and $1,082 in 2020-2024, but that $99 difference is inside the Census's own margin of error for a county this size, so it could be sampling noise rather than a real change.

Two Census ACS 5-year periods with no survey years in common, in each period's own dollars. A change counts only if it exceeds the combined 90% margin of error.

Property tax in counties next to Carroll County

Carroll County borders 7 counties, 3 of them across the state line.

Carroll County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Benton County, AR	0.56%	$1,823	$323,500
Taney County, MO	0.55%	$1,196	$218,800
Barry County, MO	0.53%	$988	$187,800
Carroll County, AR (this county)	0.51%	$1,082	$210,400
Boone County, AR	0.49%	$927	$188,900
Stone County, MO	0.47%	$1,168	$249,000
Madison County, AR	0.41%	$736	$178,100
Newton County, AR	0.38%	$649	$169,300

How is a home assessed in Carroll County?

Arkansas assesses homes at 20% of market value in every county, Carroll County included. How Arkansas assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Carroll County?

Yes, as a credit off the bill. Arkansas's Amendment 79 homestead credit is $600 on bills payable in 2026, rising to $675 on bills payable in 2027. Register once with the county assessor. That is the Arkansas rule, and it applies in Carroll County. Arkansas's exemptions and relief programs in full.

Carroll County does not add relief programs of its own beyond the Arkansas ones (checked September 23, 2026).

How to appeal your Carroll County property assessment

In Carroll County you appeal to the Carroll County Equalization Board. The deadline: Apply by petition or letter to the Equalization Board by the third Monday in August; for 2026 the County Clerk's office took applications from July 13 through August 17, and that window has closed. Call the Assessor's office first for an informal review, then make an appointment with the board through the County Clerk's office. The board sits in August and September. A board decision can be appealed to County Court by filing with the County Clerk on or before the second Monday in October, which is October 12, 2026, and from there to Circuit Court. Because Arkansas bills a year behind, an appeal of this year's value changes the bill due the following October. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against the official appeal rules.

How Arkansas's appeal process works, including the next level if the first one turns you down.

Arkansas rules from primary state sources, reviewed September 7, 2026; sources on the Arkansas page.

Work out your own numbers

Sources

Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for Carroll County, Arkansas: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2020-2024), tables B25103, B25077, B25102, B25119 and B25003; the five-year comparison uses the 2015-2019 estimates. Neighboring counties: Census county adjacency file.