The current ad volerom or property tax rate for real estate and other titled property (vehicles, watercraft, etc.) in Catawba County is (.53 ). That’s expressed as mill rate, or per thousand of assessed value. That is only one component of the combined rate. The combined rate includes the county’s rate plus a municipal or fire district rate. For example a property located in both Catawba County and the City of Hickory would have a current combined rate of .53 plus .50, or $1.03 per hundred dollars of value. If this property has an assessed valued of $200,000 the formula for determining “how much” is to divide 200,000 by 100, then multiply the quotient by $1.03. There are 2,000 hundreds in $200,000 so in this example the property’s taxes for the year are 2,000 x $1.03, or $2,060. For comparison purposes there is an example of the anuual taxes for owning real estate valued at $200,000 in each of the municipalities listed below.
2012 Catawba County Tax Rates
Catawba County is .53 per thousand, levied per hundred. Municipal rates are:
- Hickory .50 $2,060
- Brookford . 52 $2,100
- Catawba .48 $2,020
- Claremont .46 $1,980
- Conover .40 $1,860
- Long View .40 $1,860
- Maiden .38 $1,820
- Newton .48 $2,020
Fire district rates apply to properties that are not located within city or town limits of the municipalities listed above. These rates rang from .0546 to .07 and were not listed to avoid excessive detail. If you need to know fire district tax rates:
Click here to download a pdf containing all Catawba County tax rates.
About Tax Rates
In North Carolina tax rates in counties and their underlying municipalities are required to be set by June 30th. If there is any change in tax rates it will be known by this deadline. Tax bills are usually mailed in July and include discounts for payments made by certain times prior to December 31st.
The Machinery Act
In North Carolina counties and their underlying municipalities must reevaluate property values no less than every eight years. Catawba County has demonstrated a trend of conducting reevaluations every fours years, with their most recent occurring in 2011 and their next scheduled for 2015.