Franklin County Property Tax Calculator
Rate basis: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), issued March 2026.
How Franklin County property taxes are calculated
Arkansas assesses real property at 20% of market value, and Franklin County multiplies that assessed figure by the total millage for the parcel's school district and city. One mill is $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 $200,000 home in Altus, inside the Ozark #14 district, which carries 55.9 mills for 2026 collections, the highest published rate in the county:
- $200,000 market value times 20% equals $40,000 assessed value.
- $40,000 times 55.9 divided by 1,000 equals $2,236 tax before credit.
- Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $1,636 estimated annual tax, or $136.33 a month.
Move the same house into unincorporated Franklin County at the rural St Paul #48 rate of 45.4 mills, the county's cheapest published row, and the tax before credit falls to $1,816, or $1,216 after the credit. Identical house, about $420 less a year, decided by where the district boundary falls rather than by anything about the property.
Franklin County millage rates by district and city
Each row below is a taxing combination published for Franklin County for 2026 collections. School, city and county columns reconcile to the overall figure on every line. Six school districts touch the county and six cities levy a tax, giving twelve rows.
| School district | City or area | School | City | County | Overall |
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| Charleston #9 | Rural | 37.5 | 0 | 9.4 | 46.9 |
| Charleston #9 | Charleston | 37.5 | 6 | 9.4 | 52.9 |
| County Line #1 | Rural | 36.1 | 0 | 9.4 | 45.5 |
| County Line #1 | Branch | 36.1 | 5 | 9.4 | 50.5 |
| Ozark #14 | Rural | 38.5 | 0 | 9.4 | 47.9 |
| Ozark #14 | Altus | 38.5 | 8 | 9.4 | 55.9 |
| Ozark #14 | Denning | 38.5 | 5 | 9.4 | 52.9 |
| Ozark #14 | Ozark | 38.5 | 7.2 | 9.4 | 55.1 |
| Ozark #14 | Wiederkehr Village | 38.5 | 5 | 9.4 | 52.9 |
| Jasper #1 | Rural | 36.8 | 0 | 9.4 | 46.2 |
| Mulberry #101 | Rural | 39.9 | 0 | 9.4 | 49.3 |
| St Paul #48 | Rural | 36 | 0 | 9.4 | 45.4 |
Franklin County rows are from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. The report lists twelve taxing combinations for the county, all shown above. The county's own millage page lists four of these figures differently and is addressed in the note below the table.
Why Franklin County property tax rates differ by address
Franklin County's county levy is a flat 9.4 mills everywhere, so the whole spread between parcels comes from school districts and cities. The city levies are unusually wide here, from nothing in the rural tiers to 8 mills in Altus, and that is where the county's extremes are set.
- Cheapest combination: rural St Paul #48 at 45.4 mills. The St Paul school levy is the lowest touching the county at 36 mills, and the rural tier adds no city tax on top of the flat 9.4 mill county rate.
- Dearest combination: Altus inside Ozark #14 at 55.9 mills. Altus levies 8 mills, five for city general and three for fire, the highest city levy in the county. Against the cheapest row that is a 10.5 mill spread.
- Ozark city is the second highest despite the county seat label. Ozark levies 7.2 mills, split into 5 mills city general, 1 mill fire and 1.2 mills of a separate city levy line the state report shows as park or library. Added to the same Ozark #14 school rate as Altus it produces 55.1 mills, just 0.8 mills below Altus.
- Charleston and Denning land on identical totals from different rows. Charleston levies 6 mills in the Charleston #9 district for a 52.9 total, while Denning levies 5 mills in the Ozark #14 district and also lands at 52.9. The same figure is assembled from a cheaper school levy and a dearer city levy. Wiederkehr Village reaches 52.9 as well on the same logic as Denning.
- No Franklin city sits inside two school districts this year. The report places each of the six millage-levying towns in a single district, so the county's variation comes from school charges plus city levies rather than split boundaries.
- Five districts fringe in from other counties. Charleston reaches into Sebastian and Logan, County Line into Logan, Ozark into Johnson, Jasper from Newton into Boone, Carroll, Franklin, Johnson and Madison, Mulberry from Crawford into Franklin, and Huntsville from Madison and Carroll into Franklin. All arrive as rural tiers.
Source: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), Franklin County page, city millage breakdown and fringe district notes.
Franklin County cities and communities
Ozark
Ozark is the northern district seat and carries the second-highest rate in the county at 55.1 mills inside the Ozark #14 district. Its 7.2 mill city levy is the second largest in Franklin County. The county's assessor also keeps a district office in Ozark at 219 W. Main Street, and the collector's main office is on the same block at 211 W. Commercial Street.
Charleston
Charleston is the southern district seat and sits in its own school district, Charleston #9, rather than Ozark #14. Its 6 mill city levy produces 52.9 mills, 2.2 mills below Ozark city. Every southern district county office sits in Charleston, including the assessor's southern office at 607 E. Main Street and the collector's southern office on the same street, so residents on that side of the river rarely need to cross to Ozark.
Altus
Altus carries the county's highest city levy at 8 mills and the highest overall rate at 55.9 mills. The city levy splits into 5 mills of city general tax and 3 mills for fire protection, and Altus also sits in the same Ozark #14 school district as Ozark and Denning, so the town-to-town difference on that side of the county is driven purely by city tax.
Denning and Wiederkehr Village
Both towns levy a flat 5 mill city tax and both sit in Ozark #14, so both land on 52.9 mills. Wiederkehr Village is the smallest of the three incorporated places in the Ozark district, and it pays the same rate as Denning despite the size difference.
Branch
Branch sits in the County Line #1 district rather than Ozark #14 and levies 5 city mills, producing 50.5 mills. That is 5.4 mills below Altus and 4.6 below Ozark city, mostly because the County Line school levy is 36.1 mills against Ozark #14's 38.5.
Rural Franklin County
Land outside town limits sits in one of the six rural tiers, from 45.4 mills in St Paul #48 up to 49.3 in Mulberry #101. Rural parcels pay the flat 9.4 mill county rate and no city tax, so every one of the county's six cheapest rows is rural.
Franklin County Assessor
Official name: Franklin County Assessor's Office. Franklin County and Arkansas Post are the two Arkansas counties with two county seats, so the assessor runs a northern district office in Ozark and a southern district office in Charleston. The office values real and personal property, keeps the parcel and ownership records, assesses business personal property and administers the homestead credit.
Franklin County's assessor office is also the first stop for the state's reappraisal timetable: the county's page states that Arkansas counties conduct countywide reappraisals every four years and that Franklin County is in a cycle completing in 2028.
Two practical notes from the assessor's own page. Public access computers are available in the real estate department, and the county states that its online records are updated monthly, so a very recent sale may not yet appear. Business personal property must be assessed no later than May 31 each year under Arkansas statute, with a 10% penalty after that date, and commercial personal property cannot be assessed by phone. The assessor's page also names two websites for records. ARCountyData is the free option and actDataScout is the fee option; when this page was last checked the actDataScout Franklin real property search returned a restricted-access notice to non-subscribers, while the ARCountyData route remained open.
Franklin County Collector
Official name: Franklin County Collector's Office. Collector Margaret Hamilton runs both district offices and the office bills and collects personal and real property tax across the school, city, county, library and other levies. Valuation disputes belong to the assessor.
One rule catches people out every year in Franklin County, and the collector states it plainly: Arkansas law requires personal property tax to be collected with or before real estate tax, so a real estate payment cannot be accepted electronically until any personal property tax owed to the same account is paid.
The collector's office documents its own penalty schedule. A 10% late assessment fee is added to personal property assessed after May 31, and a 10% penalty is added to personal and real property taxes paid after October 15, plus 10% annual interest on real estate taxes. Statements are mailed in the spring, and the county asks taxpayers to call the office if a statement has not arrived by July 1. The county's own tax pages also note that Arkansas collects personal property and real estate tax one year in arrears, so a 2025 assessment produces a bill collected on or before October 15, 2026.
How to find a Franklin County parcel's exact tax
Franklin County's assessor names two record systems and both are operated by third parties rather than the county: ARCountyData as the free option and actDataScout as the fee option. The county also publishes its own millage page and a GIS map link, so a full picture of a parcel takes two or three of those sources.
- Open the ARCountyData record search for Franklin County, which the assessor's page names as the free route. Search by owner, address or parcel number.
- Read the market value and the assessed value on the parcel record. Arkansas assessed value is 20% of market value, so a larger gap points to an Amendment 79 cap or a frozen value for an owner aged 65 or over.
- Note which district office covers the parcel. Franklin County's assessor works from Ozark for the northern district and Charleston for the southern district, and the county seats sit either side of the Arkansas River.
- Read the school district and city fields, then check them against the millage table above. The county's own millage page lists four 2026 figures differently from the state report, so use the state figures for the calculation and ask the assessor to confirm the certified rate for your parcel.
- For the parcel's physical boundaries and taxing districts, use the county's GIS map link, which the assessor lists on the GIS page.
Sources: franklincountyar.gov/assessor/ franklincountyar.gov/gis-map/ franklincountyar.gov/millage-rates/
Paying Franklin County property taxes
Franklin County's tax books open on the first business day of March and run through October 15 without penalty, which the collector states directly on the county's collector page. Payments can be mailed to P.O. Box 1267, Ozark, AR 72949, or made in person at either district office: 211 W. Commercial Street in Ozark, or 607 E. Main Street in Charleston. Both offices keep 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekday hours and close for holidays.
The county's navigation includes a Pay Taxes Online page, but that page currently asks for a password before it will display any content, so the online payment route could not be verified this run. The collector's email address for correspondence is [email protected], and the fax number is (479) 667-5263.
Two consequences of missing October 15 are documented by the county: a 10% penalty on personal and real property tax paid late, plus 10% annual interest on real estate tax. There is also a separate rule that real estate tax cannot be paid electronically while personal property tax on the same account remains unpaid, so clear the personal property side first if you intend to pay online.
Homestead credit in Franklin County
The Arkansas homestead credit is not automatic and must be applied for through the county assessor's office. Franklin County's assessor states the local deadline plainly: applications for the homestead credit on the current tax bill must be made by October 15.
The maximum credit depends on which bill you are paying: up to $600 on a 2026 bill, rising to a maximum of $675 from the 2027 tax bills. The calculator above models a 2026 bill and uses $600.
Franklin County's collector page states the credit in local terms: the owner and occupant of one home or one mobile home may receive up to $600 each year they live at that location, the application is needed only once but must be repeated when moving, and owners who are totally disabled or over 65 may qualify for additional relief. The same page notes that disabled American veterans rated 100% totally and permanently service connected are entitled to a tax exemption. The state framework is on Arkansas Amendment 79.
Appealing a Franklin County assessment
Start with the Franklin County assessor's office. Arkansas law gives an owner the right to an informal hearing with the assessor or a representative before any formal petition, and Franklin County also keeps public access computers in the real estate department so you can review the county's own record for your parcel before the meeting.
If the informal review does not resolve it, apply to the Franklin County Board of Equalization. The statewide application 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, so the clerk is the filing route.
At the hearing the assessor presents the case for the value first, then the owner presents evidence, then the assessor may rebut. Parcel records for comparable properties showing estimated market values and recent sale prices are the strongest evidence, and a recent private appraisal also carries weight. The board then accepts or changes the value and must notify you in writing afterward.
Franklin 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 the date with the county clerk, whose office is listed under the county's departments. The county clerk also keeps the records of tax levies and improvement districts, which is useful background when a district boundary is the thing you are disputing. See the Arkansas assessment appeal process for the steps after a board decision.
Franklin County property tax examples
These rows use the Franklin County average of 50.12 mills for 2026 collections with one $600 homestead credit applied. Treat them as estimates; your parcel sits in one specific district and city combination.
| Market value | Assessed at 20% | Tax before credit | After $600 credit | Monthly |
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| $100,000 | $20,000 | $1,002 | $402 | $33.53 |
| $131,000 (county median, rounded) | $26,200 | $1,313 | $713 | $59.43 |
| $200,000 | $40,000 | $2,005 | $1,405 | $117.07 |
| $300,000 | $60,000 | $3,007 | $2,407 | $200.60 |
| $500,000 | $100,000 | $5,012 | $4,412 | $367.67 |
Calculated at the 50.12 mill Franklin County average for 2026 collections. Each row applies one $600 credit for a qualifying primary residence.
Franklin County median home value and median tax
This section is historical and statistical information for comparison only. None of it feeds the calculator and none of it describes your parcel.
Franklin County's median home value of $130,800 pairs with a median annual real estate tax of $645, an effective rate near 0.49%. That makes it the lowest median bill of the five counties rebuilt in this batch, which follows from the lowest median home value in the group rather than from a low millage.
The implied figure lands well above the surveyed one. Running $130,800 through the 20% assessment ratio at the 50.12 mill average produces roughly $1,310 before credit, about double the surveyed $645. Amendment 79 taxable value caps, the concentration of parcels in the cheaper rural tiers and homestead credits on owner-occupied homes all explain the difference. 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.
Franklin County property tax questions
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The county average is 50.12 mills for 2026 collections, blending 37.70 school mills, 6.03 city mills and a flat 9.4 mill county levy. Published combinations run from 45.4 mills in the rural St Paul #48 tier to 55.9 mills for an Altus address inside Ozark #14.
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Travel across the Arkansas River was difficult when the county was formed in 1837, so two seats were established: Ozark in the north and Charleston in the south. Both still operate today, and Franklin County's assessor and collector each keep a district office in both towns.
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The assessor names ARCountyData as the free record search and actDataScout as the fee option. Search by owner, address or parcel number, then read the market and assessed values and note the school district and city. Public access computers are also available in the assessor's real estate department.
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By mail to P.O. Box 1267, Ozark, AR 72949, or in person at the collector's Ozark office, 211 W. Commercial Street, or the Charleston office, 607 E. Main Street. Both are open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. The county links a Pay Taxes Online page, but it was password protected when this page was last checked, so confirm the online route with the collector first.
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Not until the personal property side is cleared. The collector states that Arkansas law requires personal property tax to be collected with or before real estate tax, and that a real estate payment cannot be accepted electronically while personal property tax on the same account is unpaid.
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The collector documents two charges: a 10% penalty on personal and real property taxes paid after October 15, plus 10% annual interest on real estate taxes. Separately, personal property assessed after May 31 attracts a 10% late assessment fee.
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Up to $600 on a 2026 tax bill, rising to a maximum of $675 from the 2027 tax bills. Franklin County's assessor states that applications for the credit on the current tax bill are due by October 15, that you apply only once per home, and that the application must be repeated when you move.
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They list different figures for four 2026 combinations. The county page shows Charleston city at 51.80 mills, Ozark city at 53.90 and Altus at 52.90, while the state's 2025 Millage Report for 2026 collections shows 52.90, 55.10 and 55.90 respectively, with 52.90 belonging to Denning and Wiederkehr Village rather than Altus. This page uses the state report figures because they are the certified levies filed with the Assessment Coordination Division, and it labels the county page's numbers so the difference is visible. Ask the assessor to confirm the certified rate for your parcel.
Nearby county pages
Official sources
County averages and the Franklin County per-district millage table used on this page, including the certified city and school levies.
Assessor name, both district office addresses and phones, hours, the reappraisal cycle note, the May 31 business personal property rule and the October 15 homestead deadline.
Collector name, both district offices, hours, the arrears rule, the penalty schedule and the personal-before-real-property payment rule.
The county's own 2026 millage listing, which differs from the state report on four combinations as labelled above.
The county's property and GIS map link, used for boundaries and taxing district questions.
County clerk department page, used as the board of equalization filing route.
Franklin County assessor listing, address, phone and email confirmation.
Homestead credit eligibility, the one-credit rule and the age or disability value freeze.
B25077, median home value.
B25103, median real estate tax.
B01003, population. These are survey estimates and carry sampling error.