Property tax in Greenville County, South Carolina
In Greenville County, the property tax bill comes from the Greenville County Tax Collector. The 2026 bill is due January 15, 2027. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from Greenville County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.
The median property tax bill in Greenville County, South Carolina is $1,512 a year, which is about 0.51% of the county's median home value of $299,000. That effective rate is about the same as the typical South Carolina county (0.51%) 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 Greenville County, and how do you pay it?
The bill comes from the Greenville County Tax Collector. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Greenville County Real Property Services (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.
Four county offices share the work: Real Property Services (the Assessor) values homes and grants the 4% legal residence rate and the homestead exemption, the Auditor creates the tax bills and compiles the millage rates, the Tax Collector mails the bills and takes the payments, and the Treasurer manages county money but does not take property tax payments. City taxes for cities such as Greenville, Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest, along with school, fire and sanitation district taxes, are part of the millage on the same county bill. Apply for the 4% legal residence rate by January 15 (hand delivered or postmarked) for it to count for that tax year. The county finished a countywide reassessment in 2025, and the next is scheduled for 2030. Online and phone payments go through the county's processor, AutoAgent, and carry a transaction fee.
When are property taxes due in Greenville County?
For the 2026 bill, Greenville County has one due date: January 15, 2027. Real property tax notices go out on or after October 1 (the county says they are typically mailed near the end of October) and are payable without penalty by January 15 of the following year. January 15, 2027 is a Friday. For mailed payments the U.S. postmark decides whether a payment is on time, and internet payments made after closing time count as made the next day. Taxes not paid by January 15 pick up penalties in three steps: 3% on January 16, another 7% on February 2, and another 5% plus a $15 execution cost on March 17, for a total of 15% of the base tax. Unpaid real property is then pursued by the Tax Collector and can be sold at the county's annual tax sale in the fall. A current bill cannot be paid while prior-year taxes on the same property are still unpaid.
From Greenville 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 Greenville County
Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Greenville County's average effective rate of 0.51% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.
Estimated property tax: $1,525 / year
Property tax in Greenville County at a glance
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median annual property tax | $1,512 |
| Median home value | $299,000 |
| Effective tax rate | 0.51% |
| Typical South Carolina county rate | 0.51% |
| 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 Greenville County compare in South Carolina?
Among South Carolina's 46 counties, Greenville County has the 23rd highest effective property-tax rate: 22 rank higher and 23 rank lower. That is near the middle for South Carolina. Nationally, it ranks 2614th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every South Carolina county ranked.
How much do homeowners in Greenville County actually pay?
The median is only the middle bill. Across Greenville County's 152,025 owner-occupied homes, 15% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 32.1% pay at least $2,000, and 16.3% pay under $800. Another 2.6% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.
| Annual bill | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $800 | 24,788 | 16.3% |
| $800 to $1,499 | 48,590 | 32% |
| $1,500 to $1,999 | 25,839 | 17% |
| $2,000 to $2,999 | 26,027 | 17.1% |
| $3,000 or more | 22,755 | 15% |
| No property tax paid | 4,026 | 2.6% |
Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,648 and owners without one pay $1,305. 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 Greenville County property tax bill compare with local incomes?
The median property tax bill of $1,512 is about 1.6% of the median income of Greenville County homeowner households, $93,894 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 68.9% of Greenville 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 Greenville County?
Yes. The median bill went from $1,215 in 2015-2019 to $1,512 in 2020-2024, a 24.4% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 62.7%, from $183,800 to $299,000. 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 Greenville County
Greenville County borders 8 counties, 3 of them across the state line.
| County | Effective rate | Median bill | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spartanburg County, SC | 0.55% | $1,274 | $233,300 |
| Polk County, NC | 0.54% | $1,697 | $315,000 |
| Henderson County, NC | 0.52% | $1,810 | $351,400 |
| Greenville County, SC (this county) | 0.51% | $1,512 | $299,000 |
| Transylvania County, NC | 0.45% | $1,674 | $373,600 |
| Anderson County, SC | 0.45% | $1,043 | $231,900 |
| Abbeville County, SC | 0.44% | $782 | $178,800 |
| Laurens County, SC | 0.41% | $698 | $170,600 |
| Pickens County, SC | 0.37% | $866 | $231,900 |
How is a home assessed in Greenville County?
South Carolina assesses homes at 4% of market value in every county, Greenville County included. How South Carolina assesses and reappraises homes.
Is there a homestead exemption in Greenville County?
Not as a dollar amount. South Carolina owner-occupants get a 4% assessment ratio instead of 6% plus an exemption from school operating millage; apply for the 4% ratio with the county assessor. That is the South Carolina rule, and it applies in Greenville County. South Carolina's exemptions and relief programs in full.
Greenville County does not add relief programs of its own beyond the South Carolina ones (checked September 23, 2026).
How to appeal your Greenville County property assessment
In Greenville County you appeal to the Greenville County Real Property Services (Assessor), then the Greenville County Board of Assessment Appeals. The deadline: If you receive an assessment notice, file a written objection with the Assessor within 90 days after the notice is mailed; the deadline is printed on the notice. In a year with no notice, you may appeal until the last day to pay taxes without penalty, generally January 15, extended to the next working day when that date falls on a weekend or holiday. The postmark decides whether you met the deadline. If a conference with the Assessor does not settle it, you have 30 days after the conference to file a written protest, 30 days after the Assessor's written response to appeal to the Board of Assessment Appeals, and 30 days after the Board's decision to ask for a hearing before the South Carolina Administrative Law Court. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against the official appeal rules.
How South Carolina's appeal process works, including the next level if the first one turns you down.
South Carolina rules from primary state sources, reviewed September 7, 2026; sources on the South Carolina page.
Work out your own numbers
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Sales tax in Greenville County
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Sources
- Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for Greenville County, South 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.