Property tax in Duplin County, North Carolina

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In Duplin County, the property tax bill comes from the Duplin County Tax Administration, Collections Office. The 2026 bill is due January 5, 2027. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from Duplin County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in Duplin County, North Carolina is $950 a year, which is about 0.69% of the county's median home value of $137,400. That effective rate is higher than the typical North Carolina county (0.65%) 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 Duplin County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the Duplin County Tax Administration, Collections Office. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Duplin County Tax Administration, Assessing Office, 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 county tax office both values property and collects the county bill. It also collects town taxes for Calypso, Greenevers, Kenansville, Magnolia, Rose Hill, Teachey, Wallace and Warsaw; owners in any other town should check with the town. Values come from the county's January 1, 2025 revaluation; the next one is set for January 1, 2030. You can pay online through the county's payment portal, by phone, or in person at 117 Beasley Street in Kenansville; paying by debit or credit card carries a fee online, by phone and in person.

When are property taxes due in Duplin County?

For the 2026 bill, Duplin County has one due date: January 5, 2027. Under state law, 2026 taxes are legally due September 1, 2026 and can be paid without interest through January 5, 2027, which is a Tuesday. The county's own pages do not print the 2026 dates. A mailed payment counts as paid on the date of its U.S. Postal Service postmark. Interest starts on January 6, 2027, not on September 1. State law sets it at 2% for January 6 to February 1, then 3/4% for each month or part of a month after that until the bill is paid. The county's Collections Office can garnish wages, attach bank accounts and foreclose to collect unpaid taxes.

From Duplin 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 Duplin County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Duplin County's average effective rate of 0.69% (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: $948 / year

Property tax in Duplin County at a glance

Duplin County, North Carolina property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$950
Median home value	$137,400
Effective tax rate	0.69%
Typical North Carolina county rate	0.65%
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 Duplin County compare in North Carolina?

Among North Carolina's 100 counties, Duplin County has the 40th highest effective property-tax rate: 39 rank higher and 60 rank lower. That is on the higher side for North Carolina. Nationally, it ranks 1934th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every North Carolina county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Duplin County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Duplin County's 14,621 owner-occupied homes, 6.6% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 17.9% pay at least $2,000, and 40.9% pay under $800. Another 4.2% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Annual property tax paid by Duplin County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	5,983	40.9%
$800 to $1,499	4,096	28%
$1,500 to $1,999	1,312	9%
$2,000 to $2,999	1,651	11.3%
$3,000 or more	965	6.6%
No property tax paid	614	4.2%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,190 and owners without one pay $761. 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 Duplin County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $950 is about 1.4% of the median income of Duplin County homeowner households, $65,771 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 70.3% of Duplin 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 Duplin County?

Yes. The median bill went from $738 in 2015-2019 to $950 in 2020-2024, a 28.7% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 52.3%, from $90,200 to $137,400. 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 Duplin County

Duplin County borders 6 counties.

Duplin County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Lenoir County, NC	0.84%	$1,015	$120,500
Sampson County, NC	0.75%	$1,130	$150,700
Jones County, NC	0.74%	$964	$130,300
Wayne County, NC	0.7%	$1,249	$178,700
Duplin County, NC (this county)	0.69%	$950	$137,400
Onslow County, NC	0.64%	$1,502	$236,400
Pender County, NC	0.63%	$1,883	$299,000

How is a home assessed in Duplin County?

North Carolina assesses homes at 100% of market value in every county, Duplin County included. How North Carolina assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Duplin County?

No. North Carolina has no general homestead exemption; relief is targeted to older and disabled owners and to disabled veterans. That is the North Carolina rule, and it applies in Duplin County. North Carolina's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your Duplin County property assessment

In Duplin County you appeal to the Duplin County Board of Equalization and Review. The deadline: The county takes informal appeals of real property values on its own appeal form first. Under state law a formal appeal must be requested in writing or in person before the Board of Equalization and Review adjourns; the board first meets between the first Monday in April and the first Monday in May, and in a year without a revaluation it normally adjourns by July 1. The county has not posted its adjournment date. The board's decision can be appealed to the North Carolina Property Tax Commission within 30 days after the board mails its decision. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because Duplin County does not restate them on its own pages.

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

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

Work out your own numbers

Sources

Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for Duplin County, North Carolina: 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.