Property tax in Greene County, Tennessee

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In Greene County, the property tax bill comes from the Greene County Trustee. The 2026 bill is due February 28, 2027. You can look up and pay the bill on the county's own payment page. Taken from Greene County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in Greene County, Tennessee is $890 a year, which is about 0.43% of the county's median home value of $207,500. That effective rate is lower than the typical Tennessee county (0.47%) 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 Greene County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the Greene County Trustee. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Greene County Property 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.

If you live in the Town of Greeneville, the town bills its own property tax separately through its Recorder's Office, also due by February 28, 2027, so you get two bills. Card payments to the county carry a 2.5% processing fee, online electronic checks $1.25, and phone electronic checks $1.00 plus $0.30 per phone payment; the fees go to the payment processor, not the county.

When are property taxes due in Greene County?

For the 2026 bill, Greene County has one due date: February 28, 2027. Notices are typically mailed around the first of October and are payable through the end of February without interest. February 28, 2027 is a Sunday. The county has not said whether a payment on Monday, March 1 counts as on time, and state law adds interest on March 1, so pay by Friday, February 26, 2027; the Trustee's office is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays. Mailed payments are accepted by postmark. The payment slot inside the Government Administration Center can be used whenever the building is open, including Saturdays when the County Clerk's office is open. 2026 taxes not paid by the end of February become delinquent on March 1, 2027. Interest of 1.5% is added on March 1 and on the first of each month after that, set by state law (Tenn. Code Ann. 67-5-2010). Not receiving a notice does not excuse the tax or the interest.

From Greene 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 Greene County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Greene County's average effective rate of 0.43% (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: $892 / year

Property tax in Greene County at a glance

Greene County, Tennessee property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$890
Median home value	$207,500
Effective tax rate	0.43%
Typical Tennessee county rate	0.47%
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 Greene County compare in Tennessee?

Among Tennessee's 95 counties, Greene County has the 65th highest effective property-tax rate: 64 rank higher and 30 rank lower. That is on the lower side for Tennessee. Nationally, it ranks 2862nd of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Tennessee county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Greene County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Greene County's 21,899 owner-occupied homes, 3.5% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 11.5% pay at least $2,000, and 41.8% 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 Greene County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	9,154	41.8%
$800 to $1,499	7,587	34.6%
$1,500 to $1,999	1,703	7.8%
$2,000 to $2,999	1,753	8%
$3,000 or more	772	3.5%
No property tax paid	930	4.2%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $900 and owners without one pay $881. That is within 10% either way, so in Greene County paying off the house does not go with a noticeably different bill. Census table B25103.

How does the Greene County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $890 is about 1.4% of the median income of Greene County homeowner households, $63,648 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 77.1% of Greene 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 Greene County?

Yes. The median bill went from $659 in 2015-2019 to $890 in 2020-2024, a 35.1% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 69.5%, from $122,400 to $207,500. 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 Greene County

Greene County borders 6 counties, 1 of them across the state line.

Greene County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Cocke County, TN	0.57%	$898	$158,100
Hawkins County, TN	0.54%	$956	$176,300
Unicoi County, TN	0.52%	$994	$189,600
Washington County, TN	0.52%	$1,302	$249,000
Madison County, NC	0.48%	$1,362	$284,600
Greene County, TN (this county)	0.43%	$890	$207,500
Hamblen County, TN	0.41%	$862	$210,900

How is a home assessed in Greene County?

Tennessee assesses homes at 25% of market value in every county, Greene County included. How Tennessee assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Greene County?

No. Tennessee has no general homestead exemption; relief comes through the state Tax Relief program and the local-option Tax Freeze. That is the Tennessee rule, and it applies in Greene County. Tennessee's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your Greene County property assessment

In Greene County you appeal to the Greene County Board of Equalization. The deadline: Greene County has not published its appeal schedule online. Under state law the county board convenes on June 1 each year (the next business day if June 1 falls on a weekend), and you must appeal to it to keep your right to appeal further; the next session opens June 1, 2027. Call the Property Assessor's office at 423-798-1738 for that year's dates and to schedule a hearing. A county board decision can be appealed to the Tennessee State Board of Equalization by August 1 of the tax year or within 45 days of the county board's notice, whichever is later. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because Greene County does not restate them on its own pages.

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

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

Work out your own numbers

Sources

Median real estate taxes paid and median home value for Greene County, Tennessee: 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.