Cleburne County Arkansas Property Tax Calculator

How Cleburne County property taxes are calculated

Arkansas assesses real property at 20% of market value, and Cleburne County then multiplies that assessed figure by the total millage for the parcel's school district and city. One mill equals $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed value. The $600 homestead credit comes off last and only a qualifying primary residence can claim it.

Here is the working for a $250,000 home in the Heber Springs city tier, inside the Heber Springs #1 district, which carries 43 mills for 2026 collections:

1. $250,000 market value times 20% equals $50,000 assessed value.
2. $50,000 times 43 divided by 1,000 equals $2,150 tax before credit.
3. Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $1,550 estimated annual tax, or $129.17 a month.

Move the same house across the county line into the Concord city tier at 48.7 mills and the tax before credit climbs to $2,435, or $1,835 after the credit. Same house, about $285 more a year. The reverse move is just as easy: the rural tier of Heber Springs #1 sits at 37.9 mills, the cheapest row the state published for this county, and drops the same $250,000 home to $1,295 after credit.

Cleburne County millage rates by district and city

Each row below is a taxing combination published for Cleburne County for 2026 collections, with school, city and county columns reconciling to the overall figure. Eight school districts touch Cleburne County and six cities levy a tax, which is what produces fourteen rows.

Cleburne County rows are from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. The report lists fourteen taxing combinations for the county, all shown above.

Why Cleburne County property tax rates differ by address

Cleburne County is unusual among Arkansas counties in one respect that matters to a bill: the county levy is flat at 5.1 mills everywhere. There is no county tier split, so every difference in the table above comes from the school district and the city, and the school district does most of the work.

• Cheapest combination: rural Heber Springs #1 at 37.9 mills. The Heber Springs school levy is the lowest in the county at 32.8 mills, and there is no city tax in the rural tier, so it produces the county's floor.
• Dearest combination: Concord city at 48.7 mills. Concord #3 pairs a 38.6 mill school levy with a 5 mill city levy. That is 10.8 mills above the cheapest row, or $432 more a year on a $200,000 home before credit.
• Heber Springs illustrates the city levy perfectly. The town sits entirely inside its own school district, so its 5.1 mill city levy is the only variable: 37.9 mills rural against 43 mills inside the city limits. Heber Springs is the only city in the county that levies for more than one purpose, splitting its 5.1 mills into 4.8 for city general and 0.3 for police.
• No Cleburne city sits inside two school districts this year. The state report places each of the six millage-levying towns in one district, so the county's variation comes from school levies plus city levies rather than from towns straddling boundaries.
• Seven districts fringe in from other counties. Concord reaches into Independence and Stone, Quitman into Faulkner and Van Buren, West Side into Van Buren, Midland from Independence into White and Cleburne, Pangburn from White into Cleburne, Rose Bud from White into Cleburne and Faulkner, and Searcy Special from White into Cleburne. All seven arrive as rural tiers.
• Higden is the outlier that proves the rule. It levies the county's second-lowest city rate at 4.4 mills and lands at 43.1, below Fairfield Bay and Greers Ferry at 43.7, because Higden sits in the cheaper West Side #4 district with the same 5 mill city levy next to it.

Source: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), Cleburne County page, city millage breakdown and fringe district notes.

Cleburne County cities and communities

Heber Springs

Heber Springs is the county seat and the largest city, and it lends its name to the county's cheapest school district. A city address pays 43 mills: 32.8 in school levies, 5.1 in city levies and the flat 5.1 county rate. The city levy breaks down as 4.8 mills general and 0.3 mills police, making Heber Springs the only Cleburne city spreading its levy across more than one purpose.

Fairfield Bay

Fairfield Bay sits in the West Side #4 district rather than the Heber Springs district, so it pays 43.7 mills: 33.6 school, 5 city and 5.1 county. It is the largest of the Greers Ferry Lake communities and the rate difference against Heber Springs is only 0.7 mills, all of it school levy.

Greers Ferry

Greers Ferry shares the West Side #4 district and the same 5 mill city levy as Fairfield Bay, producing an identical 43.7 mills. The two towns are 5.8 mills above the rural Heber Springs tier, which is the widest gap between a lake community and the county floor.

Higden

Higden is also in West Side #4 but levies only 4.4 mill city tax, so it lands at 43.1 mills, six tenths of a mill below Fairfield Bay and Greers Ferry. It is a good illustration that in Cleburne County it is the city levy, not the school district, that separates the lake towns from one another.

Quitman and Concord

Quitman levies 3.9 mills and sits in Quitman #21 at 45 mills, while Concord levies 5 mills in Concord #3 at 48.7 mills, the county's highest. Both towns are small, and both are in districts that reach across county lines.

Rural Cleburne County

Land outside town limits falls into one of the eight rural tiers, from 37.9 mills in Heber Springs #1 up to 47.1 in Midland #19. Rural parcels pay the flat 5.1 mill county rate and no city tax, which is why the county's cheapest bills are all outside town.

Cleburne County Assessor

Official name: Cleburne County Assessor's Office. The assessor values real and personal property, maintains the county's parcel records, handles exemptions and administers the homestead credit and the age or disability freeze. Payment is the collector's job, not this office's.

Cleburne County's assessor page also carries a practical warning about reappraisal notices: a notice will not show homestead answers for property that is not your principal residence, and it will never show a disabled veteran exemption, because that exemption is handled by the collector's office rather than the assessor's.

Two of the links published by the county are worth knowing about. The assessor's page names cleburnecountyassessor.com as the official assessor site, but that domain no longer resolves and serves nothing. Its record search link points to actDataScout and its online assessment link points to ScoutAssess at ar.scoutassess.com with a Cleburne identifier, and the ScoutAssess service works: it states that assessments made after May 31 carry a late assessment fee, and that online assessment is open to anyone who assessed the previous year. The county's own notice for 2025 also flags that reappraisal notices went out for the 2025 assessment year. For how valuations are produced in the first place, see how Arkansas assessors value homes.

Cleburne County Collector

Official name: Cleburne County Tax Collector's Office. The collector bills and collects real and personal property tax, including the school, city, county and library levies, and also administers the disabled veteran exemption that the assessor's notices do not show. Valuation questions belong to the assessor.

The collector's page also links a delinquent mineral list through artransparency.org and states plainly that October 15 is the deadline for paying personal and real property taxes without penalties. The assessor and collector share the same street address at 320 West Main Street, and their phone numbers differ by two digits, which is a common source of misdialled calls.

How to find a Cleburne County parcel's exact tax

Cleburne County splits its public records across two systems rather than one. The assessor's record search runs on actDataScout, and personal property assessment runs on ScoutAssess. Tax records and receipts sit on the collector's side, and payments go through the state's CountyService.net portal.

1. Start with the assessor's Search Public Records link, which opens the actDataScout real property index. Search by owner, address or parcel number.
2. On the parcel record, compare the market value and the assessed value. Arkansas assessed value is 20% of market value, so a mismatch larger than that points to an Amendment 79 cap or a frozen value.
3. Read the school district field. Cleburne has eight districts touching the county, and that field alone decides whether you sit at 37.9 or 48.7 mills.
4. Note whether the parcel is inside a city limit and which city. Six Cleburne towns levy a tax, and the amounts range from 3.9 mills in Quitman to 5.1 in Heber Springs.
5. To confirm the amount billed and print a receipt, use the CountyService.net portal for Cleburne County, which reported accepting tax year 2025 payments when this page was last checked.

Sources: www.cleburnecountyar.com/assessor www.cleburnecountyar.com/tax-collector tax.countyservice.net/cleburne

Paying Cleburne County property taxes

Cleburne County tax books are open from the first business day in March, and October 15 is the last day to pay without a penalty. The collector's office is at 320 West Main Street in Heber Springs, open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Online payment runs through the Arkansas CountyService.net portal, which was accepting tax year 2025 payments when this page was last checked. Cleburne County does not publish a card or convenience fee schedule on its collector page, so check the fee on the checkout screen before you submit. Mailed payments go to the same 320 West Main Street address.

Homestead credit in Cleburne County

The Arkansas homestead credit is not automatic. You apply through the county assessor's office, which in Cleburne County means the office at 320 West Main Street in Heber Springs, and the application needs to be filed only once for a given home.

The maximum credit depends on which bill you are paying. A 2026 bill carries up to $600, and from the 2027 tax bills the maximum rises to $675. The calculator above models a 2026 bill and uses $600.

Cleburne County's assessor page adds two local details that owners rarely see elsewhere. First, the homestead act allows a frozen assessed value for owners aged 65 or over, or for owners on Social Security disability, and the reappraisal notice will show a yes against those categories when a parcel's value is frozen. Second, the disabled veteran exemption is handled in the collector's office, not the assessor's, so a DAV question should go to (501) 362-8145. The state framework behind all of this, including the one-credit-per-household rule, is on the Arkansas homestead tax credit page.

Appealing a Cleburne County assessment

Begin with the assessor. Arkansas law provides for an informal hearing with the assessor or a representative before a formal petition, and Cleburne County's own reappraisal guidance is built around reading the notice carefully first and confirming what the county actually has on your record.

If the informal review does not settle it, the next step is an application to the Cleburne County Board of Equalization. The statewide filing deadline is the third Monday in August each year, and the application can be made in person, by letter or by petition. In Arkansas counties the county clerk's office serves as secretary to the equalization board, which makes the clerk's office at 301 West Main Street in Heber Springs the filing route.

At the hearing the assessor presents the valuation evidence first, then the owner responds with evidence, then the assessor may rebut. Parcel records for comparable properties showing estimated market values and recent sale prices are the strongest material, and a recent private appraisal helps. The board then accepts or changes the value and must notify you in writing afterward.

Cleburne County does not publish a board of equalization page with local hearing dates, so no county-specific deadline is quoted here; use the statewide third-Monday-in-August rule and confirm with the clerk's office at (501) 362-4620. The full process is set out in appealing a property tax assessment in Arkansas.

Cleburne County property tax examples

These rows use the Cleburne County average of 43.39 mills for 2026 collections with one $600 homestead credit applied. Treat them as estimates; your parcel sits in one specific district and city combination.

Calculated at the 43.39 mill Cleburne County average for 2026 collections. Each row applies one $600 credit for a qualifying primary residence.

Cleburne County median home value and median tax

The figures below are historical and statistical, kept separate from the calculator. They are useful for comparison and say nothing about an individual parcel.

Cleburne County's median home value of $179,800 sits against a median annual real estate tax of $815, an effective rate near 0.45%. That is the lowest effective rate of the five counties in this batch, and it reflects a county average millage of 43.39 and the flat 5.1 mill county levy rather than any single city's decision.

The implied figure is worth comparing. Taking $179,800 through the 20% assessment ratio at the 43.39 mill average produces roughly $1,560 before credit, far above the surveyed $815. Amendment 79 taxable value caps, the mix of parcels in the cheaper rural tiers and the share of owner-occupied homes claiming the credit all push the surveyed median below the arithmetic. Use the Census figures for context and the calculator above for planning.

Sources: B25077, median value; B25103, median tax; B01003, population. These are survey estimates and carry sampling error.

Cleburne County property tax questions

• What is the property tax rate in Cleburne County Arkansas?+

  The county average is 43.39 mills for 2026 collections, made up of 36.26 school mills, 4.73 city mills and a flat 5.1 mill county levy. The cheapest published combination is 37.9 mills in the rural Heber Springs #1 tier and the dearest is 48.7 mills for a Concord city address.

• Is the Cleburne County levy the same everywhere in the county?+

  Yes. Cleburne County levies 5.1 mills everywhere, city and rural, which is unusual in Arkansas and the lowest county levy among the counties rebuilt here. Every difference between the rows in the millage table comes from the school district and the city, not from the county.

• How do I look up a Cleburne County parcel?+

  Use the assessor's Search Public Records link, which opens the actDataScout real property index, and search by owner, address or parcel number. Compare the market and assessed values there, then read the school district and city fields, since those two decide your millage row.

• Where do I pay Cleburne County taxes?+

  In person or by mail at the Cleburne County Tax Collector, 320 West Main Street, Heber Springs, AR 72543, Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or online through the CountyService.net portal, which reported accepting tax year 2025 payments when this page was last checked. October 15 is the last day without a penalty.

• Can I assess my personal property online in Cleburne County?+

  Yes, through ScoutAssess at ar.scoutassess.com. Online assessment is open to anyone who assessed the previous year, and it covers vehicles, ATVs, trailers, boats and similar items. First-time assessments, name changes and anything beyond a car, truck, SUV or van still require a call or visit to the assessor's office. Assessments made after May 31 carry a late assessment fee.

• Why is my Cleburne County bill different from a neighbour's in the same town?+

  The school district is the most likely reason. Heber Springs #1 levies 32.8 mills while Midland #19 levies 42, a 9.2 mill gap. Where a district boundary cuts through a town, two similar houses on the same street can sit in different districts and land on different rows of the table above.

• What is the homestead credit worth in Cleburne County?+

  Up to $600 on a 2026 tax bill, rising to a maximum of $675 from the 2027 tax bills. You apply once at the Cleburne County Assessor's Office at 320 West Main Street in Heber Springs, and one credit is allowed per household per year.

• Who handles the disabled veteran exemption in Cleburne County?+

  The collector's office, not the assessor's. That is why a reappraisal notice never shows a disabled veteran exemption. Direct questions to the Cleburne County Tax Collector at (501) 362-8145.

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