Property tax in DeSoto County, Mississippi

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In DeSoto County, the property tax bill comes from the DeSoto County Tax Collector. The 2026 bill is due February 1, 2027. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from DeSoto County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in DeSoto County, Mississippi is $1,613 a year, which is about 0.6% of the county's median home value of $269,600. That effective rate is lower than the typical Mississippi county (0.69%) 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 DeSoto County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the DeSoto County Tax Collector. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the DeSoto County Tax 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.

Mississippi bills a year behind: tax on the 2026 assessment is due February 1, 2027. The Tax Assessor values property and takes homestead exemption applications, which must be filed each year from January 1 through April 1; homestead is a state program. The Tax Collector has offices in Hernando, Olive Branch and Horn Lake and takes cash, certified funds, checks, money orders and Visa or Mastercard; online payments run through a separate payment site the county links to. A tax collector website for DeSoto County, Florida, shows up in searches; its discounts and March deadline do not apply here.

When are property taxes due in DeSoto County?

For the 2026 bill, DeSoto County has one due date: February 1, 2027. February 1 is the date state law sets for every Mississippi county; DeSoto County's own pages do not print it. February 1, 2027 is a Monday. When the due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, state law lets you pay on the first working day after without interest. Under Mississippi law, taxes unpaid after February 1 draw interest of one-half of one percent a month, or part of a month, from February 1 until paid. Real estate with unpaid taxes goes to the county's tax sale, which the Tax Collector holds on the last Monday in August; after the sale, the taxes are paid to the Chancery Clerk's office.

From DeSoto County's published schedule, checked September 23, 2026. The county had not posted a calendar labeled for this cycle when we checked, so these dates come from state law and the county's standing schedule; the date on your bill is the one that binds you.

Estimate the property tax on a home in DeSoto County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at DeSoto County's average effective rate of 0.6% (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: $1,618 / year

Property tax in DeSoto County at a glance

DeSoto County, Mississippi property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$1,613
Median home value	$269,600
Effective tax rate	0.6%
Typical Mississippi county rate	0.69%
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 DeSoto County compare in Mississippi?

Among Mississippi's 81 counties, DeSoto County has the 64th highest effective property-tax rate: 63 rank higher and 17 rank lower. That is on the lower side for Mississippi. Nationally, it ranks 2259th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Mississippi county ranked.

How much do homeowners in DeSoto County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across DeSoto County's 55,278 owner-occupied homes, 11.6% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 31.4% pay at least $2,000, and 15.1% pay under $800. Another 8.6% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Annual property tax paid by DeSoto County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	8,347	15.1%
$800 to $1,499	14,577	26.4%
$1,500 to $1,999	10,253	18.5%
$2,000 to $2,999	10,932	19.8%
$3,000 or more	6,388	11.6%
No property tax paid	4,781	8.6%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,707 and owners without one pay $1,338. 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 DeSoto County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $1,613 is about 1.7% of the median income of DeSoto County homeowner households, $96,264 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 77.9% of DeSoto 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 DeSoto County?

Yes. The median bill went from $1,297 in 2015-2019 to $1,613 in 2020-2024, a 24.4% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 60%, from $168,500 to $269,600. 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 DeSoto County

DeSoto County borders 5 counties, 2 of them across the state line.

DeSoto County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Shelby County, TN	0.98%	$2,429	$249,100
Marshall County, MS	0.72%	$1,213	$167,900
Tate County, MS	0.65%	$1,354	$209,000
Crittenden County, AR	0.62%	$987	$160,200
DeSoto County, MS (this county)	0.6%	$1,613	$269,600
Tunica County, MS	0.53%	$940	$175,900

How is a home assessed in DeSoto County?

Mississippi assesses homes at 10% of market value in every county, DeSoto County included. How Mississippi assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in DeSoto County?

Yes, as a credit off the bill. Mississippi's regular homestead credit tops out at $300, which almost every homeowner with a house worth roughly $74,000 or more receives. Apply with the county tax assessor between January 1 and April 1. That is the Mississippi rule, and it applies in DeSoto County. Mississippi's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your DeSoto County property assessment

In DeSoto County you appeal to the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors. The deadline: Ask the Board of Supervisors for a hearing on your assessment by contacting the Chancery Clerk's office. The state says an appeal must normally be filed by the first Monday in August before the taxes are due, and the board hears objections at its August meeting. For taxes due February 1, 2027, that window closed in August 2026, and the next one is in summer 2027. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because DeSoto County does not restate them on its own pages.

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

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

Work out your own numbers

Sources

Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for DeSoto County, Mississippi: 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.