Property tax in Bullitt County, Kentucky

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

The bill comes from the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office (tax office). The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Bullitt County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA), 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 sheriff collects state, county, school and district property taxes on one bill, and the City of Shepherdsville's tax is combined into that bill. Owners inside Mount Washington, Hillview, Hunters Hollow, Pioneer Village, Fox Chase, Lebanon Junction and Hebron Estates also get a separate city tax bill from their city; the tax district number on your bill shows which applies. You can pay the sheriff by mail, in person at the courthouse at 300 South Buckman Street in Shepherdsville, online by card (the card company charges a fee), or by check at any Bullitt County branch of Stock Yards Bank from October 1 through December 31. Bills go to whoever owned the property on January 1, not to your mortgage company, so if your lender pays through escrow, make sure it has your bill.

When are property taxes due in Bullitt County?

For the 2026 bill, Bullitt County has one due date: December 31, 2026. Kentucky sends one bill a year, with no installments, and the sheriff does not accept partial payments. Bills usually arrive in the first week of October. Paying in full by November 1, 2026 takes 2% off the bill; from November 2 through December 31, 2026 the face amount is due. The sheriff counts a post office postmark as on time. November 1, 2026 is a Sunday, and the county has not said whether a Monday payment in person still gets the discount, so pay in person by Friday, October 30 or mail your payment so it is postmarked by November 1. December 31, 2026 is a Thursday. The sheriff has not yet posted its 2026 schedule; its 2025 bills used these same state law dates. If bills go out late, state law lets the Department of Revenue set a later schedule, and the dates printed on your bill then replace these. State law makes an unpaid bill delinquent on January 1. Paid from January 1 through January 31, 2027, it carries a 5% penalty. From February 1, 2027 the penalty is 10%, and the sheriff adds a collection fee equal to 10% of the tax plus 10% of that penalty, which the sheriff's schedule shows as a single 21% penalty. January 31, 2027 is a Sunday, and the county has not said whether a Monday payment still avoids the higher charge. The sheriff collects through April 15, 2027; after April 1 it takes only a certified check or money order by mail, not a personal or business check. After April 15, unpaid bills go to the Bullitt County Clerk, where interest of 1% a month plus a county clerk fee and a county attorney fee are added, and the unpaid bill can be sold to a third-party buyer.

From Bullitt 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 Bullitt County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Bullitt County's average effective rate of 0.83% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in Bullitt County at a glance

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 Bullitt County compare in Kentucky?

Among Kentucky's 120 counties, Bullitt County has the 17th highest effective property-tax rate: 16 rank higher and 103 rank lower. That places it among the most heavily taxed counties in the state. Nationally, it ranks 1506th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Kentucky county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Bullitt County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Bullitt County's 26,962 owner-occupied homes, 24.6% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 49.6% pay at least $2,000, and 10.6% pay under $800. Another 3.3% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $2,220 and owners without one pay $1,784. 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 Bullitt County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $2,050 is about 2.3% of the median income of Bullitt County homeowner households, $88,395 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 84.9% of Bullitt 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 Bullitt County?

Yes. The median bill went from $1,552 in 2015-2019 to $2,050 in 2020-2024, a 32.1% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 49.4%, from $165,500 to $247,200. 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 Bullitt County

Bullitt County borders 4 counties.

How is a home assessed in Bullitt County?

Kentucky assesses homes at 100% of market value in every county, Bullitt County included. How Kentucky assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Bullitt County?

Only for older and disabled owners. Kentucky's homestead exemption is age and disability based; an owner-occupant under 65 who is not totally disabled gets none. That is the Kentucky rule, and it applies in Bullitt County. Kentucky's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your Bullitt County property assessment

In Bullitt County you appeal to the Bullitt County Board of Assessment Appeals (appeals are filed with the Bullitt County Clerk). The deadline: First ask the PVA for a conference, before the tax roll inspection period ends. That period normally begins the first Monday in May and ends the third Monday in May. If the conference does not settle it, file a written appeal with the Bullitt County Clerk no later than one workday after the inspection period ends, normally the third Tuesday in May. The window for 2026 assessments has passed; the next one normally opens in May 2027. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against the official appeal rules.

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

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

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