Property tax in Perquimans County, North Carolina

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

The bill comes from the Perquimans County Tax Administrator (Tax Department). The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Perquimans County Tax Administrator (Tax Department), 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.

One county office, the Tax Department under the Tax Administrator, both values property and sends and collects the bill, and it collects the property tax for every taxing jurisdiction in the county. Real property was last reappraised in 2024 and the next countywide reappraisal is scheduled for 2032, so values change between those years only through corrections. Personal property must be listed each January. Online payments go through the county's online tax payment site, linked from the Tax Administrator page. The office is at 107 N. Front Street in Hertford (P.O. Box 7, Hertford, NC 27944).

When are property taxes due in Perquimans County?

For the 2026 bill, Perquimans County has one due date: January 5, 2027. North Carolina law makes property taxes due September 1 and lets them be paid at face amount before January 6, so 2026 bills can be paid without interest through January 5, 2027 (a Tuesday). A mailed payment counts as paid on its U.S. Postal Service postmark date. Perquimans County's own pages do not print these dates; they are the dates state law sets for every North Carolina county. Under state law, taxes not paid by January 5 are charged 2% interest on January 6, then an additional 3/4% for each month or part of a month after that until paid.

From Perquimans 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 Perquimans County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Perquimans County's average effective rate of 0.59% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in Perquimans 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 Perquimans County compare in North Carolina?

Among North Carolina's 100 counties, Perquimans County has the 67th highest effective property-tax rate: 66 rank higher and 33 rank lower. That is on the lower side for North Carolina. Nationally, it ranks 2305th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every North Carolina county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Perquimans County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Perquimans County's 4,297 owner-occupied homes, 9.7% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 28.7% pay at least $2,000, and 23.3% pay under $800. Another 5.1% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,556 and owners without one pay $978. 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 Perquimans County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $1,375 is about 1.7% of the median income of Perquimans County homeowner households, $80,453 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 76.5% of Perquimans 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 Perquimans County?

Yes. The median bill went from $1,194 in 2015-2019 to $1,375 in 2020-2024, a 15.2% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 34.5%, from $172,300 to $231,700. 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 Perquimans County

Perquimans County borders 5 counties.

How is a home assessed in Perquimans County?

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

Is there a homestead exemption in Perquimans 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 Perquimans County. North Carolina's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your Perquimans County property assessment

In Perquimans County you appeal to the Perquimans County Board of Equalization and Review. The deadline: Under state law, a request to have the board review a value must be made in writing or in person before the board adjourns. The board first meets between the first Monday in April and the first Monday in May and, in a year without a countywide reappraisal, may not sit later than July 1, so the 2026 board has already adjourned. The county has not posted its board dates, so call the Tax Department at 252-426-7010 for next year's. A board 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 Perquimans 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

• How much house can I afford?

  Your income, debts and down payment against the 28/36 rule lenders actually use, with Perquimans County's tax rate to hand.

• Mortgage calculator

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

• North Carolina income tax

  Brackets, standard deduction and what North Carolina actually taxes.

• Sales tax in Perquimans County

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