Calhoun County Property Tax Calculator
Rate basis: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), issued March 2026.
How Calhoun County property taxes are calculated
The statewide 20% assessment ratio produces the taxable figure. Calhoun County applies the millage belonging to the parcel's Hampton #1, Bearden #53 or Fordyce #39 district and its city at $1 per $1,000 of assessed value, and the $600 credit reduces the finished tax rather than the assessment.
Here is the working for a $130,000 home inside Hampton, which sits in the Hampton #1 district and pays a 5.4 mill city levy for a combined 50.40 mills:
- $130,000 market value times 20% equals $26,000 assessed value.
- $26,000 times 50.4 divided by 1,000 equals $1,310.40 tax before credit.
- Subtract the $600 credit for $710.40 estimated annual tax, or $59.20 a month.
Shift the same house into the rural tier of Bearden #53 at 43.20 mills and the tax before credit falls to $1,123.20, or $523.20 after the credit. Same house, $187.20 less a year, decided only by the district and city combination.
The county average blends three school districts and four millage-levying cities, so it is a sound first estimate and never a final number. The statewide arithmetic is explained in how Arkansas property tax is calculated.
Calhoun County millage rates by district, city and rural area
Calhoun County has just seven published combinations and all seven appear here. An unincorporated parcel shows no city millage, since it pays school and county levies only, while the three component columns on each line sum exactly to the overall rate.
| School district | City or area | School | City | County | Overall |
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| Hampton #1 | Rural | 36.7 | 0 | 8.3 | 45 |
| Hampton #1 | Hampton | 36.7 | 5.4 | 8.3 | 50.4 |
| Hampton #1 | Harrell | 36.7 | 5 | 8.3 | 50 |
| Hampton #1 | Tinsman | 36.7 | 5 | 8.3 | 50 |
| Bearden #53 | Rural | 34.9 | 0 | 8.3 | 43.2 |
| Bearden #53 | Thornton | 34.9 | 6 | 8.3 | 49.2 |
| Fordyce #39 | Rural | 38.5 | 0 | 8.3 | 46.8 |
| County average | 36.44 | 5.35 | 8.3 | 47.80 |
Calhoun County lines are drawn from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report for 2026 collections, issued March 2026. It prints seven taxing combinations for this county at a county average of 47.80 mills.
Two structural facts stand out in the state report. First, the county levy is 8.3 mills on every published row, so the entire 7.2 mill spread in Calhoun County comes from the school and city columns. Second, two of the county's three school districts are not really Calhoun districts: Bearden #53 fringes in from Ouachita County and Fordyce #39 fringes in from Dallas County, so a Calhoun parcel can be taxed by a district headquartered in the next county.
Why two Calhoun County homes can have different tax bills
Calhoun County keeps the same 8.3 mill county levy everywhere, so all of the difference comes from three school districts and four cities. The cheapest combination for 2026 collections is the rural Bearden #53 tier at 43.20 mills and the dearest is a Hampton city address at 50.40 mills, a 7.2 mill gap.
- On the median-priced home the gap is $160 a year. A $111,000 home generates $959 of tax before credit at 43.20 mills and $1,119 at 50.40 mills. The house is identical; only the district line moves.
- Thornton pays the dearest city levy in the county. Thornton levies 6 city mills, which is 5 mills of city general tax plus 1 mill of city fire tax, and that is the highest city rate published for Calhoun. Inside Bearden #53 it produces 49.20 mills, which is only 1.20 mills below the dearest row in the county despite sitting in the cheapest school district. The practical effect: a Thornton address pays $1,092.24 before credit on a $111,000 home against $999.00 just outside the city in the same district.
- Harrell and Tinsman are twins. Both sit inside Hampton #1 and both levy 5 city mills, so both land at 50.00 mills, four tenths of a mill below Hampton itself. Hampton's extra 0.4 mills is city fire tax.
- The rural Hampton tier is not the cheapest row. Rural Hampton sits at 45.00 mills because its school levy is 36.7 mills, while the rural Bearden tier reaches 43.20 mills on a 34.9 mill school levy. Choosing a rural parcel in the Bearden district is worth $133.20 a year over a rural parcel in the Hampton district on a $111,000 home.
No city in Calhoun County appears under two school districts in the state report. Every incorporated place belongs to exactly one district, so the comparison that matters here is a city address against the rural tier of the same district, or a rural parcel in one district against a rural parcel in another.
Hampton, Thornton, Tinsman and the rest of Calhoun County
Hampton
Hampton is the county seat and the only city in Calhoun County with a millage-levying fire district. Its 5.4 mill city levy is 5 mills of city general tax plus 0.4 mills of city fire tax, and inside Hampton #1 that produces the county's highest rate at 50.40 mills. The assessor works from 309 Main and the collector from 109 South 2nd Street, both in Hampton, so a homestead filing and a payment can be handled on one trip.
Thornton
Thornton sits inside the Bearden #53 district, a district that fringes in from Ouachita County, and it carries the heaviest city levy in Calhoun at 6 mills. The combination lands at 49.20 mills: 34.9 school mills, 6 city mills and 8.3 county mills. That is 5.3 mills above the rural tier of its own school district, and it is the clearest example in this county of a low school levy being cancelled out by a high city levy.
Harrell and Tinsman
Both are Hampton #1 towns with a flat 5 mill city levy, so both produce 50.00 mills. The state report shows the 5 mills as city general tax only, with no fire, police, library, bond or park levy attached, and both towns sit at the same overall figure as a result. Neither has a separate school district.
Rural Calhoun County
Rural parcels pay no city levy at all, and the rural tiers are where the county's cheapest combinations sit. The rural Bearden #53 tier at 43.20 mills is the lowest published rate in Calhoun County. Rural Hampton follows at 45.00 mills and rural Fordyce #39 at 46.80 mills. Fordyce #39 is the third district fringing into the county, reaching in from Dallas County, and it has no city tier inside Calhoun at all.
Calhoun County Assessor
The Calhoun County Assessor's Office values real and personal property, keeps ownership and parcel records, applies the Amendment 79 homestead provisions and handles exemptions. Values come from this office. Payments do not.
Calhoun County handles personal property differently from most counties on this site. The assessor's online assessment page states plainly that if you did not assess in Calhoun County last year, the online process cannot be used at all, and you must come into the office with paperwork from your previous county, vehicle titles or registrations. It also warns that an online assessment takes one to two business days to process and that a tag renewal cannot go through until the assessor emails back a name and PPAN number, so anyone renewing a tag immediately is told to call instead. Assessments filed after May 31 carry a 10% late assessment penalty.
Sources: Arkansas DFA county officials list and Calhoun County online assessment page on CountyService.net, which carries the assessor's telephone number and the May 31 penalty. For the office split in general, see Arkansas property tax assessor versus collector.
Calhoun County Collector
The Calhoun County Collector's Office bills and collects real and personal property tax for the county, its cities, its school districts and its improvement districts, then turns the revenue over to the county treasurer. The collector does not set values.
Calhoun County accepts card and e-check payments through the CountyService.net portal rather than a county-hosted system, and the portal page carries the collector's office address and the tax year it is currently accepting. The county does not publish a card fee schedule on that page, so the processor fee should be confirmed on the checkout screen before a payment is submitted.
Sources: Calhoun County payment portal on CountyService.net, which lists the collector, the office address, the telephone number and the tax year currently accepted, and DataScout county record for Calhoun County, which lists the collector under the same telephone number.
How to look up a Calhoun County parcel and its tax
Calhoun County records are split across two systems. Parcel values and assessment detail sit in the DataScout platform the county uses for real property records. Tax bills, receipts and payment history sit behind the CountyService.net portal the collector uses. Most owners end up using both.
- Open the Calhoun County real property search on actDataScout and search by owner name, address or parcel number. DataScout reports 13,866 parcels in Calhoun County with 84.12% of them mapped, so a rural parcel may not appear in the mapping layer even when the record exists.
- Check the data dates before relying on a figure. DataScout's Calhoun page shows the assessor data last updated December 29, 2025 with an assessor data date of June 30, 2025, and collector data last updated February 10, 2026.
- Write down the market value and the assessed value. In Calhoun County the second is normally 20% of the first, but a capped or frozen homestead shows less.
- Set down the school district and the city or area together, then find that pairing above. Calhoun County has only three districts, so the pairing is quick to locate.
- Switch to the CountyService.net payment portal to see the balance due and the receipts on file, then pay there or at the collector's office in Hampton.
Sources: DataScout county record for Calhoun County, which carries the parcel count, the percentage mapped, the assessor and collector data dates and the seven published millage rows, and actDataScout Calhoun County real property search. Note that actDataScout returns a restricted page to automated requests, so this link is confirmed from the county record page rather than by an automated crawl.
Paying Calhoun County property taxes
Arkansas collector books open on the first business day of March and the deadline is October 15, and Calhoun County follows that calendar. A balance unpaid after October 15 becomes delinquent and carries a 10% penalty, with the delinquent list published in a legal newspaper before December 1.
Payment methods
- Online: the CountyService.net portal for Calhoun County, which was accepting tax year 2025 payments when this page was last checked.
- In person: the collector's office at 109 South 2nd Street in Hampton.
- By mail: P.O. Box 1174, Hampton, AR 71744.
Arkansas law requires personal property tax to be paid with or before real estate tax, so a real estate payment can be blocked while a vehicle or business personal property balance is still open. That rule catches people who have sold a vehicle but never removed it from the assessment roll. The statewide picture is in Arkansas property tax due dates, and unpaid balances in delinquent property tax and redemption in Arkansas.
Sources: Calhoun County payment portal and Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division procedures for the March 1 to October 15 collection window.
Homestead credit in Calhoun County
Calhoun County administers the homestead credit for qualifying primary residences through the assessor's office in Hampton. The credit is not granted automatically, and it falls to the owner to file.
The two credit maximums matter because a bill you pay now and a bill you pay next year are governed by different statutes. A 2026 tax bill carries a maximum credit of $600 under Act 330 of 2025. From the 2027 tax bills the maximum rises to $675 under HB1103, now Act 174 of 2026, which amended Ark. Code 26-26-1118(a)(1)(A). The calculator on this page models a 2026 bill, which is why it uses $600. The full filing walkthrough is in the Arkansas homestead credit for 2026.
Amendment 79 applies in Calhoun County as it does statewide: a 5% annual ceiling on taxable value for a homestead and 10% for everything else, with a possible value freeze for owners who are 65 or older or disabled under Social Security criteria. See Arkansas Amendment 79 limits.
Sources: Act 330 of 2025, HB1103, Act 174 of 2026, Arkansas DFA relief programme and Calhoun County online assessment page for the assessor route and the May 31 personal property deadline.
Appealing a Calhoun County assessment
Start with the assessor in Hampton. The office must by law hear an informal challenge to a changed value before a petition is filed, and that conversation resolves most Calhoun County disputes.
If it does not, the next step is the Calhoun County Board of Equalization. The county clerk serves as secretary of that board, so an application is filed with the clerk rather than with the board directly. Applications may be made in person, by petition or by letter, and the board begins hearing appeals no later than the second Monday in August.
- Where to file: the Calhoun County Clerk's office, P.O. Box 1175, Hampton, AR 71744.
- Clerk's phone: (870) 798-2517.
- Filing window: applications are accepted from July 1 up to the third Monday in August.
- Evidence that matters: comparable sale data from inside the same school district, plus a recent appraisal of your own property if you have one.
- Decision timetable: the board notifies the owner in writing within 10 business days of the hearing, and a further appeal goes to the County Court by the second Monday in October.
The board's reach stops short of two subjects. It cannot redecide whether a property is exempt, and it has no say over the valuation of farm, pasture or timber land, which the state's guidelines fix.
Sources: Arkansas County Boards of Equalization model hearing procedures and Arkansas DFA guide to property valuation appeals to County Court. Calhoun County clerk contact details come from the Association of Arkansas Counties Calhoun County page.
Calhoun County property tax examples
The rows below are priced at Calhoun County's 47.80 mill average and apply one $600 credit. Read them as planning figures: a real parcel sits in one of the seven published district and city combinations rather than at the average.
| Market value | Assessed at 20% | Tax before credit | After $600 credit | Monthly |
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| $100,000 | $20,000 | $956 | $356 | $29.67 |
| $111,000 (county median, rounded) | $22,200 | $1,061 | $461 | $38.43 |
| $200,000 | $40,000 | $1,912 | $1,312 | $109.33 |
| $250,000 | $50,000 | $2,390 | $1,790 | $149.17 |
| $500,000 | $100,000 | $4,780 | $4,180 | $348.33 |
Each line is computed at the 47.80 mill Calhoun County average and one $600 credit. The credit is capped at the tax owed, so a home worth about $62,762 or less carries no bill at all.
Calhoun County median home value and median tax
Background statistics follow. They are not used by the calculator above and they do not describe any particular Calhoun County parcel.
The gap between the two figures is the part worth understanding. Running the median home value through the 20% assessment ratio at the 47.80 mill county average implies about $1,061 of tax before credit, roughly double the surveyed median of $515. That reflects how far a median-priced Calhoun parcel sits below full 20% assessed value, which of the three school districts it falls in, and the homestead credit applied to many of those bills. Read the survey numbers as a comparison between counties, not as a bill estimate.
Sources: B25077, median value; B25103, median tax; B01003, population. Survey estimates that carry sampling error.
Calhoun County property tax questions
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The county average total millage is 47.80 mills for 2026 collections, blending 36.44 school mills, 5.35 city mills and 8.30 county mills. Published combinations run from 43.20 mills in the rural Bearden #53 tier to 50.40 mills for a Hampton city address.
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Because Calhoun County levies a flat 8.3 mills everywhere, made up of 5 mills of county general tax and 3 mills of road tax in the rural tier, or 1.5 mills of road allotted to the city, 5 mills general and 1.5 mills road in a city tier, plus 0.3 mills of library tax. All 7.2 mills of spread in the county therefore comes from the school and city columns.
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Thornton, at 6 mills, which is 5 mills of city general tax plus 1 mill of city fire tax. Inside the Bearden #53 district that produces 49.20 mills, only 1.20 mills below the dearest combination in the county even though Bearden #53 is the cheapest school district in Calhoun.
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Through the CountyService.net portal for Calhoun County, in person at the collector's office at 109 South 2nd Street in Hampton, or by mail to P.O. Box 1174, Hampton, AR 71744. The portal was accepting tax year 2025 payments when this page was last checked.
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Only if you assessed in Calhoun County last year. The assessor's online page states that anyone who did not assess in the county last year must come into the office with paperwork from the previous county, vehicle titles or registrations. An online assessment also takes one to two business days before a tag renewal can go through.
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A 10% late assessment penalty applies to personal property assessed after May 31, which is set by state law rather than by the county. Real property does not need to be re-assessed each year, so the May 31 rule is mainly about vehicles, business personal property and equipment.
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File at the Calhoun County Assessor's Office, 309 Main in Hampton. The ceiling is $600 on a 2026 tax bill and $675 from the 2027 bills, with one primary residence per owner qualifying.
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Take it to the assessor informally first, which state law requires the office to allow. If that fails, apply to the Calhoun County Board of Equalization through the county clerk at P.O. Box 1175 in Hampton by the third Monday in August, with parcel records and comparable sale prices.
Nearby county pages
Official sources
County average and the Calhoun County per-district millage table, county levy breakdown and school district fringe notes used on this page.
Current Calhoun County assessor entry with the 309 Main address and telephone number.
The online payment route, the collector's mailing address, the office telephone number and the tax year currently accepted.
The assessor's own rules for online assessment, the one to two business day processing time and the May 31 late penalty.
Parcel count, percentage mapped, assessor and collector data dates, the listed officials and the seven published millage rows.
The county's real property record search. This host returns a restricted page to automated requests.
County clerk and collector contact details used for the appeal section.
Statewide credit eligibility, the one-per-household rule and the senior freeze.
Why $600 is the ceiling on a bill paid in 2026.
HB1103, now Act 174 of 2026, takes the credit to $675 on 2027 bills and amends Ark. Code 26-26-1118(a)(1)(A).
Hearing conduct, the 10-business-day notice rule, the August filing date and the collection window.
The route from the Board of Equalization to the County Court.
The Census value table behind the median home figure.
The Census table behind the median annual tax figure.
The Census table behind the county population figure.