Lonoke County Arkansas Property Tax Calculator

How Lonoke County property taxes are calculated

Arkansas assesses real property at 20% of market value. Lonoke County then applies the total millage for the parcel's school district and city, where 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 $220,000 home inside Cabot in the Cabot #4 district, which carries 50.9 mills for 2026 collections:

1. $220,000 market value times 20% equals $44,000 assessed value.
2. $44,000 times 50.9 divided by 1,000 equals $2,239.60 tax before credit.
3. Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $1,639.60 estimated annual tax.

The same house in an England city address, where the England #2 district and the town produce 57.8 mills, would owe $2,543.20 before the credit and $1,943.20 after it. That is $303.60 more a year for a district and city combination roughly twenty miles away, and it is the single widest gap in the county.

Lonoke County millage rates by district and city

Lonoke County publishes seventeen taxing combinations for 2026 collections. Seven school districts appear, including two that fringe in from neighbouring counties, and eleven cities or towns levy their own rates on top. Every row's columns reconcile to the overall figure.

Rows taken from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. Lonoke's county levy is 6.4 mills on every row, one of the few constants in the county.

Why Lonoke County tax bills differ so much inside the county

Lonoke County has the highest county average and the widest published range of the five counties in this group, 43.0 to 57.8 mills. Four things drive the spread.

• Beebe #7 is the cheapest district in the county by a wide margin. Its 36.6 school mills are 2.9 mills below the next lowest, Cabot #4 at 39.5, and 9.7 below England #2 at 46. The district has no city row in the state report, so a Beebe #7 parcel pays 43.0 mills with no city tax at all. That is nearly 15 mills below the county's most expensive address.
• England #2 is the dearest district, and the town completes it. England levies the highest school rate in the county at 46 mills, and the city of England adds 5.4 mills, producing 57.8 mills, the top of the county's range. Keo, in the same district, levies a lower 4 mill city rate for 56.4, still the second highest in Lonoke County.
• Three cities share one identical rate. Austin, Cabot and Ward all sit inside the Cabot #4 district and all levy 5 mills, so all three produce exactly 50.9 mills, which is 0.7 mills below the county average. Cabot's 5 mill city rate breaks down into 0.8 mills general, 0.4 for the fire department, 1 for police, 1.1 for miscellaneous city purposes, 1.2 for the city library and 0.5 for parks.
• Allport levies the lowest city rate in the county. At 0.9 mills it adds less than a fifth of what Carlisle, Humnoke or England charge, producing 49.3 mills inside the Carlisle #3 district, which is below the county average despite the district's 42 school mills.
• Two districts fringe in from Pulaski County. The Pulaski County Special district and the newer Jacksonville North Pulaski district both reach into Lonoke County, at 47.1 and 54.7 mills. Neither has a city row in this county, so a Lonoke County parcel in either pays a purely rural rate.

There is also a small voluntary layer that does not appear in the table. Lonoke County levies.0005 mills for soil conservation and.00075 mills for the sheriff's drug fund, both of which are fractional amounts on any ordinary residential bill.

Cabot, Lonoke, England and the rest of Lonoke County

Cabot

Cabot is the largest city in Lonoke County and the one with the most detailed published city levy, 5 mills built from six separate line items including 0.8 mills general, 0.4 for fire, 1 for police, 1.1 miscellaneous, 1.2 for the library and 0.5 for parks. Inside the Cabot #4 district that gives 50.9 mills, below the county average, and the same 50.9 applies in Austin and Ward. The assessor also runs a second office in Cabot at 1604 S Pine St., Suite E, which the collector shares.

Lonoke

Lonoke is the county seat and, at 57.05 mills, the second most expensive address in the county. Its city rate is 5.4 mills, made up of 5 mills general and 0.4 for police, and the Lonoke #1 district carries the second highest school rate at 45.25. Both the assessor and the collector have their main offices here, on North Center Street in the courthouse annex.

England and Keo

England has the county's highest combined rate at 57.8 mills, and neighbouring Keo is close behind at 56.4. Both sit in the England #2 district and both levy significant city taxes, 5.4 mills for England and 4 for Keo. A $220,000 home in England pays roughly $1,943 a year after the homestead credit against about $1,640 for the same house in Cabot.

Austin, Ward and Allport

Austin and Ward both sit in the Cabot #4 district and both levy 5 mills, so each produces 50.9 mills, identical to Cabot itself. Allport is the outlier among the county's small towns: it sits in the Carlisle #3 district but levies only 0.9 mills of city tax, which lands it at 49.3 mills, below Carlisle and Humnoke on 53.4 despite sharing their school district.

Lonoke County Assessor

Official name: Lonoke County Assessor's Office. The assessor locates and identifies taxable property, establishes taxable value for real and personal property, completes the assessment roll, and applies legal exemptions along with the Amendment 79 homestead provisions. The office has two locations.

Lonoke County is one of the few in this group with a second assessor's office, which matters in a county this spread out. The Cabot office exists because most of the county's population growth has been in the Cabot #4 district, roughly forty miles from the county seat. The assessor describes the valuation method directly: appraisers inspect properties, verify market sales, study cost and income data, then run a computer assisted mass appraisal analysis comparing properties of similar size, age, location and description.

Sources: Lonoke County Assessor and the Arkansas DFA county officials table.

Lonoke County Collector

Official name: Lonoke County Collector's Office. The collector bills and collects county, municipal, school, library and improvement district taxes and turns the revenue over to the county treasurer, and handles delinquent collection. Valuation questions belong to the assessor.

The collector's own guidance is worth repeating because it is unusually direct: the office encourages mailing a check on or before October 15 to avoid penalties and interest, and notes that an online portal fee is added to each debit or credit card transaction. The collector's office does not receive any portion of that fee. One restriction applies to delinquent accounts, where personal checks are not accepted for delinquent personal property taxes.

Sources: Lonoke County Collector and Lonoke County Collector payment methods.

How to look up a Lonoke County parcel and its tax

Lonoke County spreads a tax record across two systems. The collector sponsors a free public search of personal and real estate tax records through ARCountyData, and the same platform carries parcel records, maps and legal descriptions. The collector's own website then tells you how to read what you find.

1. Open the Lonoke County record search on ARCountyData, the free search the collector sponsors. Enter the last name and first name the property was assessed under, which is not always the current owner's name.
2. Read the parcel numbers carefully. In Lonoke County the personal property parcel number has no hyphens, while every real estate parcel number is hyphenated and is eleven digits long. That is the quickest way to tell the two apart in a result list.
3. Click the parcel number to open the detail screen. For personal property that is where the total amount due appears, and the same view shows paid receipts by year for either type.
4. For values and ownership rather than money, read the parcel record itself. Assessed value should equal 20% of market value unless an Amendment 79 cap or a senior freeze is holding taxable value lower.
5. Match the school district and city on the record to the millage table above. The two fields that matter most in Lonoke County are the district, since Beebe #7 and England #2 are 9.4 school mills apart, and whether the address is inside a town at all, since eleven Lonoke County cities levy their own rates.

If a record will not surface, the collector's office asks that you call (501) 676-6344 rather than assume it is missing. That number reaches both the Lonoke and Cabot offices.

Sources: Lonoke County Collector tax receipt and record search guidance, ARCountyData Lonoke County and Lonoke County Collector payment methods.

Paying Lonoke County property taxes

Lonoke County taxes can be paid from March 1 through October 15, and the collector states that penalties, interest and costs are added after the deadline. If October 15 falls on a weekend or holiday, the collector allows payment on the following business day without penalty or interest.

• In person: at either office, the Courthouse Annex at 208 N. Center St. in Lonoke or the Cabot office at 1604 S Pine St., Suite E. Both are open Monday to Friday, 8:00 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
• By mail: checks, money orders and cashier's checks made payable to William Ryker, Lonoke County Collector, P. O. Box 192, Lonoke, AR 72086. The collector recommends this route and asks that it go out on or before October 15.
• Online: through the county service payment portal, which accepts Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express. Two things are worth planning for: a portal fee is added to each card transaction, and the collector's payment page warns that an online payment may take up to 72 hours to process.
• Delinquent accounts: personal checks are not accepted for delinquent personal property taxes. Bring a money order, cashier's check or card instead.

The 72 hour processing window matters if you are paying close to the deadline, since the collector is explicit that you are responsible for paying the correct amount and that the office will not be held responsible if you do not. Pay by mail early, or pay online with several days in hand. The statewide rules on deadlines and penalties are covered in when Arkansas property taxes are due.

Sources: Lonoke County Collector payment methods and Lonoke County Collector.

Homestead credit in Lonoke County

Arkansas's homestead credit reduces the property tax on a qualifying primary residence, and Lonoke County residents apply for it at the assessor's office. The assessor's published description of its own duties lists applying the Amendment 79 Homestead Act among them, so the office handles the filing locally.

Two maximums circulate for this credit. The statutory figure is $600 on a 2026 tax bill under Act 330 of 2025, rising to $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, signed in May 2026 as Act 174 of 2026. Lonoke County's record search platform is already quoting the $675 figure in its homestead summary, which applies to the 2027 bill rather than the one modelled here. This calculator uses $600 because it models a 2026 bill. Filing steps are in how to apply for the Arkansas homestead credit.

Lonoke County parcels also carry the state's Amendment 79 protections, which the assessor lists among its own responsibilities: taxable value on a homestead can rise 5% a year, other real property 10%, and owners 65 or older or fully disabled can freeze the taxable value of the residence. The same source notes the important caveat that a millage rate increase or a substantial improvement can still raise the tax bill even when the value is frozen. Details in Arkansas Amendment 79 property tax limits.

Sources: Lonoke County Assessor, ARCountyData Lonoke County and HB1103, Act 174 of 2026.

Appealing a Lonoke County assessment

Start with the assessor. Lonoke County valuation questions generally resolve once the property record card is checked against comparable sales, and the assessor's own guidance notes that buyers and sellers establish market value, not the assessor. That framing is useful context for an appeal: the office is comparing verified sales, not defending a number.

If the informal route does not close the gap, the next step is the Lonoke County Board of Equalization. The assessor's published guidance is that you appeal by making an appointment during the appeal period in the month of August and meeting with the board.

• First contact: Lonoke County Assessor's Office, (501) 676-6938
• Board secretary: Lonoke County Clerk, courthouse, Lonoke
• How to file: in person, by letter or by petition to the board secretary. No state form or filing fee is required.
• Deadline to schedule: the third Monday in August. The board begins hearing appeals no later than the second Monday in August.
• Onward route: a petition to the county court is filed with the county clerk by the second Monday in October, and the county judge hears it by November 15.

The evidence sequence is fixed in state law: the assessor presents the basis for the value first, then you present yours, and then the assessor may rebut. Material evidence not provided to the assessor at least five days before the hearing can be excluded. The board can accept, raise or lower the valuation, but it rules on accuracy and uniformity rather than on affordability, so build the case around comparable properties rather than the size of the bill. More in how to appeal a property tax assessment in Arkansas and the site's property tax appeal guide.

Sources: Lonoke County Assessor FAQ, Arkansas DFA, property valuation appeals to county court and Arkansas county boards of equalization model hearing procedures.

Lonoke County property tax examples

These examples use the Lonoke County average of 51.61 mills for 2026 collections with the $600 homestead credit applied. They are estimates: your parcel sits in one of seventeen combinations running from 43.0 to 57.8 mills.

Calculated at the 51.61 mill Lonoke County average for 2026 collections. Each row applies one $600 credit for a qualifying primary residence.

Lonoke County median home value and median tax

Historical and statistical comparison only. None of this feeds the calculator, and none of it describes an individual parcel.

Lonoke County has the highest median home value, the highest median tax and the highest effective rate in this group, and it is the only county here whose population exceeds 75,000. The 0.63% effective rate is the steepest of the five. At the 51.61 mill average, a $193,600 home would imply about $1,998 before the credit against a surveyed median of $1,211, and the gap has the same three causes as elsewhere: Amendment 79 caps, which parcels the median actually covers, and the fact that the county's cheapest district, Beebe #7 at 43.0 mills, carries a large share of the housing stock while the county average is pulled up by the England and Lonoke combinations.

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

Lonoke County property tax questions

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

  The county average total millage is 51.61 mills for 2026 collections, blending 42.71 school mills, 4.24 city mills and 6.40 county mills. Published rates run from 43.0 mills in the Beebe #7 rural tier to 57.8 mills for an England city address.

• Why is Lonoke County's average millage so high?+

  Because the county combines a 6.4 mill county levy on every parcel with seven school districts, three of which levy 45 mills or more. The England #2, Lonoke #1 and Jacksonville North Pulaski districts are all at 45.25 mills or above, and eleven cities add their own rates on top of that.

• Which Lonoke County cities charge the same property tax rate?+

  Austin, Cabot and Ward, which all sit inside the Cabot #4 district and all levy 5 mills, so all three produce exactly 50.9 mills. Cabot's 5 mill rate is itemised into general, fire, police, miscellaneous, library and parks levies.

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

  Use the free public search on ARCountyData that the Lonoke County collector sponsors. Enter the last and first name the property was assessed under. Personal property parcel numbers have no hyphens and real estate parcel numbers are hyphenated eleven-digit numbers, which is the fastest way to tell them apart.

• Where do I pay Lonoke County property taxes?+

  At either collector's office, the Courthouse Annex at 208 N. Center St. in Lonoke or 1604 S Pine St., Suite E in Cabot, by mail to P. O. Box 192, Lonoke, AR 72086, or online through the county service payment portal. The collector recommends mailing a check on or before October 15 because online payments can take up to 72 hours to process.

• How much is the homestead credit in Lonoke County?+

  The maximum is $600 on a 2026 tax bill under Act 330 of 2025 and $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, Act 174 of 2026. Apply at the Lonoke County Assessor's Office on (501) 676-6938 or the Cabot office on (501) 424-4242. One credit per household.

• How do I appeal my Lonoke County assessment?+

  Make an appointment with the Lonoke County Board of Equalization during the appeal period in August, as the assessor's guidance describes it. Applications go to the county clerk as board secretary and must be scheduled by the third Monday in August. If the board rules against you, a county court petition is due by the second Monday in October.

• Does Lonoke County have a reappraisal coming up?+

  The Arkansas DFA reappraisal schedule places Lonoke County's current county-wide reappraisal in 2026, with the next cycle scheduled for 2030. Between reappraisals the assessor still adds new construction and previously undiscovered property at full value.

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