Property tax in Jasper County, Missouri

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

The bill comes from the Jasper County Collector of Revenue. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Jasper 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 Jasper County Assessor values property, and the Collector of Revenue mails one annual statement and pays the money out to each taxing body. The Collector also collects taxes for 15 cities, including Joplin, Carthage, Webb City and Carl Junction, so their property tax is on the county statement. Payments are taken at the courthouse in Carthage and the Jasper County Courts Building in Joplin, and at a 24-hour drop box at each office. Online payment costs $2.00 by e-check or 2.45% by credit card, and online payments do not post as paid until midnight of the day paid. For errors in the value, address or vehicles listed, call the Assessor before paying.

When are property taxes due in Jasper County?

For the 2026 bill, Jasper County has one due date: December 31, 2026. One annual payment. Statements are mailed during the first week of November, are due on receipt and become delinquent after December 31; December 31, 2026 is a Thursday. If no statement arrives by the end of November, call the Collector's office. A mailed payment must carry a US Postal Service postmark dated on or before December 31, and online payment closes at 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2026. Problems with phone or online payment do not extend the deadline, and not receiving a statement does not excuse the tax. Taxes not paid or postmarked by December 31 become delinquent on January 1 and carry penalty and interest under state law, plus a 9% fee for collecting delinquent taxes that state law (RSMo 52.290) adds to the bill in every Missouri county without a charter form of government, Jasper County included. Mailed payments postmarked after December 31 are returned unprocessed unless the late charges are included. Real estate with delinquent taxes is offered at the county tax sale held on the fourth Monday in August.

From Jasper 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 Jasper County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Jasper County's average effective rate of 0.72% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in Jasper 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 Jasper County compare in Missouri?

Among Missouri's 115 counties, Jasper County has the 52nd highest effective property-tax rate: 51 rank higher and 63 rank lower. That is near the middle for Missouri. Nationally, it ranks 1825th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Missouri county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Jasper County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Jasper County's 31,079 owner-occupied homes, 5.8% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 18.2% pay at least $2,000, and 26.6% pay under $800. Another 2.9% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,291 and owners without one pay $996. 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 Jasper County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $1,196 is about 1.6% of the median income of Jasper County homeowner households, $76,491 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 62.8% of Jasper 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 Jasper County?

Yes. The median bill went from $925 in 2015-2019 to $1,196 in 2020-2024, a 29.3% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 41%, from $118,400 to $166,900. 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 Jasper County

Jasper County borders 6 counties, 2 of them across the state line.

How is a home assessed in Jasper County?

Missouri assesses homes at 19% of market value in every county, Jasper County included. How Missouri assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Jasper County?

No. Missouri has no general homestead exemption; relief comes through the income-tested Property Tax Credit and the county-option senior freeze. That is the Missouri rule, and it applies in Jasper County. Missouri's exemptions and relief programs in full.

On top of the Missouri programs, Jasper County runs its own:

• Jasper County Senior Citizens Tax Credit (SB 190): Jasper County adopted this credit by an ordinance the County Commission passed October 1, 2024, under a state law (RSMo 137.1050) that lets counties offer it. A Missouri resident aged 62 or older by December 31 of the first credit year who owns and lives in a Jasper County home as a primary residence, is liable for its real estate tax and has paid the prior year's taxes can get a credit equal to the amount the home's real estate tax has risen above its tax in the initial credit year (2024 for most applicants). It does not apply to personal property tax, certain levies, tax sale properties or delinquent taxes. An application must be filed every year, from early February through May 31; new applications go in person to the Collector's office in the Carthage courthouse, and renewals can also be filed online with the code printed on the renewal notice. Apply by May 31.

How to appeal your Jasper County property assessment

In Jasper County you appeal to the Jasper County Board of Equalization (appeals are filed with the County Clerk as secretary of the Board). The deadline: State law for first class counties such as Jasper (RSMo 137.385) requires a written appeal, on the form the County Clerk provides, to be filed with the County Clerk before the second Monday in July, which for the 2026 assessment meant before July 13, 2026 (now passed); the Board may extend that deadline. The county has not posted its own 2026 appeal date online; call the County Clerk at 417-358-0416 for the form and the current date. A further appeal to the Missouri State Tax Commission is due by September 30 or 30 days after the Board's decision, whichever is later. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because Jasper County does not restate them on its own pages.

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

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

Work out your own numbers

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  Monthly payment with principal, interest, tax and insurance, plus what an extra payment saves you.

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• Sales tax in Jasper County

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