Property tax in Baldwin County, Georgia

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In Baldwin County, the property tax bill comes from the Baldwin County Tax Commissioner. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from Baldwin County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in Baldwin County, Georgia is $1,276 a year, which is about 0.7% of the county's median home value of $181,900. That effective rate is lower than the typical Georgia county (0.86%) 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 Baldwin County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the Baldwin County Tax Commissioner. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Baldwin County Board of Tax Assessors, 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 2026 due date has not been published. Baldwin County's own pages disagree on the usual date (one says November 15, another December 15), and 2025 bills were due December 15, 2025. The Tax Commissioner mails bills at least 60 days before the due date, and the date printed on your bill is the one that counts. If the due date falls on a weekend or holiday, you have until the next business day to pay in the office, and mailed payments must be postmarked by the due date. Taxes may be paid in two payments before the due date. After the due date, interest is charged monthly at the prime rate plus 3% a year, a 5% penalty is added 120 days after the due date and every 120 days after that up to 20% (except on homestead bills under $500), and the unpaid tax becomes a lien. The City of Milledgeville bills and collects its own property tax separately, at City Hall. Homestead applications go to the Tax Assessor's Office, not the Tax Commissioner. Card payments carry a processor fee of 2.57% (3% for American Express).

When are property taxes due in Baldwin County?

Georgia has no single statewide payment due date. Bills and due dates are set county by county. Note that the January 1 to April 1 window on the state site is the deadline to file a property tax return, not to pay the bill.

Baldwin County does not publish the due dates for its bill on its own pages (checked September 23, 2026), so we do not print any here. The dates on your statement are the ones that bind you; who sends which bill is covered above.

Estimate the property tax on a home in Baldwin County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Baldwin County's average effective rate of 0.7% (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: $1,273 / year

Property tax in Baldwin County at a glance

Baldwin County, Georgia property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$1,276
Median home value	$181,900
Effective tax rate	0.7%
Typical Georgia county rate	0.86%
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 Baldwin County compare in Georgia?

Among Georgia's 158 counties, Baldwin County has the 128th highest effective property-tax rate: 127 rank higher and 30 rank lower. That is on the lower side for Georgia. Nationally, it ranks 1883rd of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Georgia county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Baldwin County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Baldwin County's 10,125 owner-occupied homes, 17.4% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 31.6% pay at least $2,000, and 30% pay under $800. Another 7.5% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Annual property tax paid by Baldwin County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	3,033	30%
$800 to $1,499	2,351	23.2%
$1,500 to $1,999	776	7.7%
$2,000 to $2,999	1,441	14.2%
$3,000 or more	1,765	17.4%
No property tax paid	759	7.5%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,390 and owners without one pay $1,112. 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 Baldwin County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $1,276 is about 1.8% of the median income of Baldwin County homeowner households, $71,756 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 61.1% of Baldwin 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 Baldwin County?

Yes. The median bill went from $1,035 in 2015-2019 to $1,276 in 2020-2024, a 23.3% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 51.2%, from $120,300 to $181,900. Bills rose more slowly than values, which is what assessment caps and falling millage rates do: the county is taxing a smaller share of each home's worth.

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 Baldwin County

Baldwin County borders 5 counties.

Baldwin County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Hancock County, GA	1.09%	$967	$88,600
Washington County, GA	1%	$1,127	$112,500
Jones County, GA	0.97%	$1,878	$194,500
Wilkinson County, GA	0.9%	$775	$86,300
Baldwin County, GA (this county)	0.7%	$1,276	$181,900
Putnam County, GA	0.68%	$1,698	$249,300

How is a home assessed in Baldwin County?

Georgia assesses homes at 40% of market value in every county, Baldwin County included. How Georgia assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Baldwin County?

Yes. Georgia's standard homestead exemption deducts $2,000 from the assessed value of a resident's primary home. That is the Georgia rule, and it applies in Baldwin County. Georgia's exemptions and relief programs in full.

On top of the Georgia programs, Baldwin County runs its own:

Senior value freeze: Homeowners 60 or older on January 1 can have the value of the home and up to 10 surrounding acres frozen for county taxes, and homeowners 65 or older for county and school taxes, with no income limit and on top of the $10,000 homestead exemption. It freezes the value, not the tax, and does not apply to city taxes, to additions, or to acreage over 10 acres. Apply by April 1.
Senior school tax exemption at age 65: Homeowners 65 or older whose household gross income from all sources is $40,000 or less are fully exempt from school taxes on the home and up to 10 contiguous acres. Apply by April 1.

How to appeal your Baldwin County property assessment

In Baldwin County you appeal to the Baldwin County Board of Tax Assessors, then the Board of Equalization, a hearing officer, or arbitration. The deadline: In writing to the Board of Tax Assessors, postmarked within 45 days of the date the assessment notice was mailed, stating which method of appeal you choose. A Board of Equalization decision can be appealed to Superior Court. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against the official appeal rules.

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

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

Work out your own numbers

Sources

Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for Baldwin County, Georgia: 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.