Property tax in Danville city, Virginia

Who sends the property tax bill in Danville city, and how do you pay it?

The bill comes from the City of Danville Finance Department, Division of Customer Accounts (Central Collections). The value it is based on is set by a separate office, the City of Danville Real Estate Division (city 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.

Danville is an independent city, so the city bill is the only local real estate tax bill; no county bill comes on top of it. The tax year runs July 1 to June 30, so the December bill is the first half and the June bill the second. The Real Estate Division values property and hears the first appeal; the Division of Customer Accounts collects, and mailed payments go to City of Danville, Division of Central Collections, P.O. Box 3308, Danville, VA 24543-3308. Online and phone payments go through the city's payment processor, Paymentus, and carry a 2.75% convenience fee; there is also a drive-thru and a 24-hour drop box at 311 Memorial Drive. If your taxes are escrowed and the bill comes to you, forward it to your mortgage company and give the Real Estate Division your correct mailing address.

When are property taxes due in Danville city?

For the Fiscal Year 2026 to 2027 (July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027) bill, Danville city splits the bill into 2 payments, the first due December 5, 2026 and the last June 5, 2027. Under the city code, a payment not received within seven days after the due date gets a penalty of 10% of the tax past due or $10, whichever is more (never more than the tax). Interest of 10% a year on the tax and penalty is charged from the first day of the month after the due date and is added again on the first day of each month. A delinquent account also gets a $30 administrative fee once it is 30 days past due, and an account sent to a collection agency or attorney is charged a 20% collection fee. The city's tax page tells owners to pay by the due date, offers no payment extensions or payment plans for real estate tax, and notes that not receiving a bill does not excuse penalties and interest.

From Danville city'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 Danville city

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at Danville city's average effective rate of 0.65% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in Danville city 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 Danville city compare in Virginia?

Among Virginia's 133 counties, Danville city has the 53rd highest effective property-tax rate: 52 rank higher and 80 rank lower. That is on the higher side for Virginia. Nationally, it ranks 2093rd of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Virginia county ranked.

How much do homeowners in Danville city actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across Danville city's 9,109 owner-occupied homes, 4.7% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 10.8% pay at least $2,000, and 49.5% pay under $800. Another 4.1% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $842 and owners without one pay $697. 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 Danville city property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $774 is about 1.3% of the median income of Danville city homeowner households, $57,426 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 47.8% of Danville city's occupied homes are lived in by their owners; renters pay property tax too, just folded into rent.

Have property taxes gone up in Danville city?

Yes. The median bill went from $661 in 2015-2019 to $774 in 2020-2024, a 17.1% rise. Over the same span the median home value moved 31.6%, from $90,500 to $119,100. 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 Danville city

Danville city borders 2 counties, 1 of them across the state line.

How is a home assessed in Danville city?

Virginia assesses homes at 100% of market value in every county, Danville city included. How Virginia assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in Danville city?

No. Virginia has no general homestead exemption; relief is limited to the elderly and disabled, disabled veterans, and surviving spouses of service members and first responders killed in the line of duty. That is the Virginia rule, and it applies in Danville city. Virginia's exemptions and relief programs in full.

On top of the Virginia programs, Danville city runs its own:

• Elderly or Disabled Tax Relief: For an owner aged 65 or older, or permanently and totally disabled, on June 30 before the tax year, who lives in the home as their sole dwelling, with combined household income of $45,000 or less ($52,500 or less for a permanently and totally disabled owner; the first $4,000 of a live-in relative's income other than a spouse is not counted) and combined net worth of $50,000 or less, not counting the home, up to one acre and furnishings: the city exempts all of the tax when income is $22,500 or less and half of it when income is higher, up to $700 a year per property. An application is required every year. Apply by September 30 (applications are taken from July 1, at the Senior Citizen Center in July, August and September or at the Real Estate Division; a postmark inside the window counts).

How to appeal your Danville city property assessment

In Danville city you appeal to the City of Danville Real Estate Division, with a further appeal to the Board of Equalization in reassessment years. The deadline: The city has not posted deadlines for the current round. Owners first ask the Real Estate Division to review the assessment, using its Assessment Appeal Form, and the Board of Equalization hears further appeals only in reassessment years; call the Real Estate Division for the current dates. Under Virginia law (Code of Virginia section 58.1-3984), an owner may also apply to the Circuit Court within three years from the last day of the tax year the assessment is for, or within one year from the date of the assessment, whichever is later. How to file. Checked September 23, 2026 against state law, because Danville city does not restate them on its own pages.

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

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

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