Property tax in Greenwood County, South Carolina

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

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

Three county offices share the work: the Assessor values real estate and grants the 4% legal residence rate, the Auditor computes the millage and handles the homestead exemption, and the Tax Collector mails the bills and takes the payments. Town and city taxes for Greenwood, Ninety Six, Ware Shoals, Troy and Hodges are part of the millage on the same county bill, along with school and special district taxes. The 4% legal residence rate is not automatic: you must file an application with the Assessor. The county's 2026 millage is marked pending final approval because of a 2026 reassessment, so read any assessment notice you receive for its appeal deadline. All county offices, including the Tax Collector, are closed on Fridays. Online payments go through the county's processor, CORE, which charges the greater of $2.00 or 2.65% for cards and a flat $2.00 for e-checks.

When are property taxes due in Greenwood County?

For the 2026 bill, Greenwood County has one due date: January 15, 2027. South Carolina law makes property taxes due by January 15 after the bills go out in the fall; the county's own pages restate January 15 only as the final date for installment-plan payers. January 15, 2027 is a Friday, and the Tax Collector's office is open Monday through Thursday and closed on Fridays. The county has not said whether a Friday due date moves when its office is closed, and it posts online payments made after 4:30 pm on the next business day. The safe choices are to pay in person or online by 4:30 pm on Thursday, January 14, or to mail the payment with a U.S. postmark no later than January 15, since state law makes the postmark the payment date for mail. Optional installment plan: owners of real property can sign up between December 1 and January 15 to pay the next year's estimated taxes in five payments due February 15, April 15, June 15, August 15 and October 15, each 16 2/3% of the prior year's tax, with the balance due by January 15 of the following year. The current year's taxes must be paid in full before signing up, and a missed installment can cancel the plan. Under state law, taxes not paid by January 15 pick up penalties in three steps: 3% on January 16, another 7% on February 2 and another 5% on March 17. If tax notices go out late, the first penalty does not apply until 30 days after the notices are mailed. If the tax is still unpaid on March 17, the county issues a tax execution to collect the unpaid tax, penalties and collection costs, and the property can go to tax sale.

From Greenwood 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 Greenwood County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Greenwood County's average effective rate of 0.53% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in Greenwood 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 Greenwood County compare in South Carolina?

Among South Carolina's 46 counties, Greenwood County has the 20th highest effective property-tax rate: 19 rank higher and 26 rank lower. That is near the middle for South Carolina. Nationally, it ranks 2540th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every South Carolina county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Greenwood County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Greenwood County's 18,685 owner-occupied homes, 5.2% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 16.5% pay at least $2,000, and 38.6% pay under $800. Another 3.2% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $1,153 and owners without one pay $765. 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 Greenwood County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $964 is about 1.4% of the median income of Greenwood County homeowner households, $67,527 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 67% of Greenwood 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 Greenwood County?

Yes. The median bill went from $857 in 2015-2019 to $964 in 2020-2024, a 12.5% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 47%, from $122,800 to $180,500. 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 Greenwood County

Greenwood County borders 6 counties.

How is a home assessed in Greenwood County?

South Carolina assesses homes at 4% of market value in every county, Greenwood County included. How South Carolina assesses and reappraises homes.

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

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

How to appeal your Greenwood County property assessment

In Greenwood County you appeal to the Greenwood County Assessor (written objection), then the Greenwood County Board of Assessment Appeals. The deadline: If you receive an assessment notice, file a written objection with the Assessor by the last appeal date printed on the notice; state law allows 90 days after the notice is mailed. In a year with no notice, you may object in writing any time before the first penalty date in January for the current tax year. Only one appeal per tax year is allowed unless a new notice arrives, and the objection must be postmarked by the deadline. If a conference with the Assessor does not settle it, you have 30 days after the conference to file a written protest, then 30 days after the Assessor's written response to appeal in writing 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. If the appeal will not be settled by December 31, you must ask for and pay a bill for 80% of the tax on the notice; that bill does not extend the time to pay or waive penalties. 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

• How much house can I afford?

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

• Mortgage calculator

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

• South Carolina income tax

  Brackets, standard deduction and what South Carolina actually taxes.

• Sales tax in Greenwood County

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