Property tax in Marion County, Tennessee

By Brent Chudoba, editor Updated September 23, 2026

In Marion County, the property tax bill comes from the Marion 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 Marion County's own pages, checked September 23, 2026.

The median property tax bill in Marion County, Tennessee is $833 a year, which is about 0.43% of the county's median home value of $195,200. 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 Marion County, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the Marion County Trustee. The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the Marion County Assessor of Property, 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 Trustee takes payment in person at the courthouse in Jasper, by mail, or online through a statewide trustee payment site the county links to. Card payments carry a processing fee of 2.75% charged by the payment processor. The City of Jasper collects its own city property tax, so owners there get a separate city bill; owners in other towns should check with their town hall. Whitwell has its own tax freeze for older homeowners, which covers Whitwell city tax only; Marion County has not adopted the freeze.

When are property taxes due in Marion County?

For the 2026 bill, Marion County has one due date: February 28, 2027. Marion County does not print its due dates online, so these are the dates state law sets for every Tennessee county: taxes are payable from the first Monday in October (October 5, 2026), and interest is added if they are unpaid on March 1, 2027. February 28, 2027 is a Sunday, and the courthouse is open weekdays only. The county has not said whether a payment on Monday, March 1 counts as on time, so pay by Friday, February 26, 2027. Call the Trustee's office at (423) 942-2681 to confirm. Under state law (Tenn. Code Ann. 67-5-2010), interest of 1.5% a month is added to unpaid taxes on March 1, 2027 and on the first day of each month after that.

From Marion 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 Marion County

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Marion 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: $839 / year

Property tax in Marion County at a glance

Marion County, Tennessee property tax (Census ACS, reviewed September 23, 2026)
Measure	Value
Median annual property tax	$833
Median home value	$195,200
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 Marion County compare in Tennessee?

Among Tennessee's 95 counties, Marion County has the 68th highest effective property-tax rate: 67 rank higher and 27 rank lower. That is on the lower side for Tennessee. Nationally, it ranks 2865th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Tennessee county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Marion County actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Marion County's 9,322 owner-occupied homes, 4.7% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 13.2% pay at least $2,000, and 44.6% pay under $800. Another 6.1% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Annual property tax paid by Marion County homeowners (Census ACS 2020-2024)
Annual bill	Homes	Share
Under $800	4,153	44.6%
$800 to $1,499	2,625	28.2%
$1,500 to $1,999	740	7.9%
$2,000 to $2,999	795	8.5%
$3,000 or more	438	4.7%
No property tax paid	571	6.1%

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $915 and owners without one pay $753. 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 Marion County property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $833 is about 1.2% of the median income of Marion County homeowner households, $71,173 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 78.5% of Marion 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 Marion County?

Yes. The median bill went from $717 in 2015-2019 to $833 in 2020-2024, a 16.2% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 55.3%, from $125,700 to $195,200. 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 Marion County

Marion County borders 6 counties, 2 of them across the state line.

Marion County and its neighbors, highest effective rate first (Census ACS 2020-2024)
County	Effective rate	Median bill	Median home value
Hamilton County, TN	0.62%	$1,925	$312,800
Dade County, GA	0.57%	$1,133	$198,500
Franklin County, TN	0.53%	$1,246	$236,900
Sequatchie County, TN	0.45%	$1,051	$232,600
Marion County, TN (this county)	0.43%	$833	$195,200
Grundy County, TN	0.38%	$586	$154,000
Jackson County, AL	0.3%	$480	$159,500

How is a home assessed in Marion County?

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

Is there a homestead exemption in Marion 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 Marion County. Tennessee's exemptions and relief programs in full.

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

How to appeal your Marion County property assessment

In Marion County you appeal to the Marion County Board of Equalization. The deadline: Start by calling the Assessor of Property's office, (423) 942-3494, about the value. Under state law the County Board of Equalization convenes June 1 each year (or the next business day) and stays in session only as long as needed; the county has not published its schedule or appeal deadline online, so ask the Assessor's office for the current year's deadline. An assessment generally must be appealed to the county board to keep the right to appeal further. 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 date the board's notice was sent, whichever is later. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because Marion 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 Marion 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.