Monroe County Arkansas Property Tax Calculator

How Monroe County property taxes are calculated

Monroe County runs the same three-step arithmetic as every county in Arkansas, but the inputs it feeds in are unusually spread out. The assessor fixes a market value, the state takes 20% of it as assessed value, and the mills for that parcel's school district and city are charged at $1 per $1,000 of assessed value, with the county's 8.4 mills added on top.

A $120,000 house inside Clarendon city, which sits in the Clarendon #6 district at 53.64 mills for 2026 collections, works out like this:

1. $120,000 market value times 20% equals $24,000 assessed value.
2. $24,000 times 53.64 divided by 1,000 equals $1,287 tax before credit.
3. Subtract the $600 homestead credit for $687 estimated annual tax, or $57.28 a month.

The same $120,000 house in the rural tier of Marvell #22 at 41.4 mills produces $994 before credit and $394 after it. Nothing changed but the district and city lines, and the swing is $294 a year. Holly Grove shows the same effect from the opposite direction: the town kept its own rates after consolidating into Clarendon #6, so it pays the Clarendon school levy with a 5.8 mill city rate instead of Clarendon's 5.84, landing at 53.6 mills overall.

Monroe County millage rates by district and city

The ten lines below are the taxing combinations the state publishes for Monroe County for 2026 collections. Each one reconciles: school mills plus city mills plus the county's 8.4 mills equals the overall figure, and a "Rural" row means no city millage applies. Monroe County has five school districts and five millage-levying cities, so the table is short but the spread is wide.

Monroe County rows taken from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. All ten combinations are listed here. The county's 8.4 mills differs in composition by tier even though the total matches: city parcels carry a 1.5 mill road allotment, a 1.5 mill county road line, 5 mills of general county tax and 0.4 mills for the library, while rural parcels carry 3 mills of road instead of the allotment.

Why Monroe County rates swing 14.4 mills across the county

Monroe County is geographically small but its tax map is not simple, because five of its districts also collect in neighbouring counties and two of its towns kept separate rates after consolidation. The result is a 14.4 mill spread between the cheapest and dearest published combination.

• Fargo is the dearest address at 55.8 mills. Fargo sits in the Brinkley district, which carries the county's highest school rate at 43.4 mills, and adds a 4 mill city levy. A Fargo parcel pays $1,116 on $100,000 of market value before any credit.
• Rural Marvell #22 is the cheapest at 41.4 mills. The Marvell district's 33 school mills are the lowest in the county, and rural parcels add no city levy. The same $100,000 value pays $828, a difference of $288 a year at identical value.
• Brinkley city pays a lower city rate than Fargo. Brinkley levies 3.6 city mills (2.8 general, 0.4 fire and 0.4 police) against Fargo's flat 4 mills, so two addresses in the same school district sit 0.4 mills apart.
• Roe is the lowest city rate in the county. Roe levies 1.7 mills, which holds a Roe address to 49.5 mills even though the surrounding Clarendon district pays 53.64 inside the Clarendon city limits.
• Holly Grove kept its own millage. Holly Grove #7 consolidated with Clarendon #6 but maintained separate rates, so Holly Grove pays the Clarendon school levy plus 5.8 city mills, four hundredths of a mill below Clarendon's own city rate.
• Augusta and Palestine Wheatley are rural-only here. Both districts appear in the Monroe County table with a single rural row, because their city tiers fall in other counties.

District boundaries are the reason. Brinkley School District fringes from Monroe County into Woodruff County, Clarendon #6 reaches into Lee and Prairie counties, Augusta #10 fringes in from Woodruff, the Marvell district fringes from Phillips into Desha and Monroe, and Palestine Wheatley fringes in from St. Francis. A Monroe County parcel can therefore pay a school levy that was voted on outside the county, which is exactly why the county average of 49.82 mills should only ever be a first estimate.

Clarendon, Brinkley, Holly Grove and the rest of Monroe County

Clarendon

Clarendon is the county seat and the town where every property tax question in the county converges. The assessor, the collector and the county clerk all work from 123 Madison Street, and the county's oldest surviving courthouse dates from 1829. A Clarendon city address pays 53.64 mills, built from 39.4 school mills, a 5.84 mill city levy and 8.4 county mills. The city rate is the highest in Monroe County and splits into 5 mills general, 0.44 fire and 0.4 police.

Brinkley

Brinkley is the population centre on the I-40 corridor and the home of the highest school levy in the county. The Brinkley district carries 43.4 mills, split 25 for maintenance and operations and 18.4 for bonds, and the city adds 3.6 mills, so a Brinkley address pays 55.4 mills overall. Fargo, immediately inside the same district, pays 55.8 because its city levy is a flat 4 mills with no fire or police split.

Holly Grove

Holly Grove is the consolidation case that makes Monroe County unusual. The town's district merged into Clarendon #6 but kept separate millage rates, so Holly Grove addresses are the only ones in the county carrying Clarendon school mills with their own city figure. Holly Grove levies 5.8 mills, of which 5 is general and 0.4 each for fire and police, producing a 53.6 mill overall rate.

Roe and Fargo

Roe and Fargo are the two smallest incorporated places in the county and show how much a city line can matter. Roe's 1.7 mill levy is the lowest in Monroe County and produces 49.5 mills overall. Fargo's 4 mills produce 55.8, the county's highest. Both sit in districts with rural rates at or below 51.8 mills, so the city levy alone explains almost the whole gap.

Rural Monroe County

Rural addresses carry no city tax but they are not identical. The rural tiers published for this county run 41.4 mills in Marvell #22, 44.1 in Augusta #10, 45.2 in Palestine Wheatley, 47.8 in Clarendon #6 and 51.8 in the Brinkley district, a 10.4 mill range with no city tax involved at all. If you are buying land outside a town, the district line is the only variable left.

Monroe County Assessor

Official name: Monroe County Assessor's Office. Assessor: Stacey Wilkerson. The office appraises real property between the first Monday in January and July 1, keeps ownership and parcel records, handles personal property assessments between January 1 and May 31, and registers homesteads. Every parcel in the county is served from one address, 123 Madison Street in Clarendon. This office sets values and does not collect payment.

Personal and business personal property must be assessed by May 31 each year or the 10% state penalty applies, while real estate is assessed automatically as of January 1. If you bought a home this year, the assessor's office is also where you file for the homestead credit. Arkansas.gov still lists a former office holder for Monroe County; the DFA county officials directory, the Association of Arkansas Counties and the county's own ARCountyData record all name Stacey Wilkerson, so that is the name published here.

Sources: Arkansas DFA county officials directory, ARCountyData Monroe County and Association of Arkansas Counties, Monroe. Office contact details are also listed in the site's Arkansas assessor directory.

Monroe County Collector

Official name: Monroe County Collector's Office. Collector: Steve Mitchell, who also serves as county treasurer. The collector bills and receives real and personal property tax, distributes the municipal, school, library and improvement district shares to the county treasurer, and handles delinquent collection. It does not set values.

Two official sources list different numbers for this office. The collector's record on ARCountyData carries (870) 747-3819, and the Association of Arkansas Counties lists the collector at the same number while showing (870) 747-3722 for the treasurer's office. Arkansas.gov's Monroe page prints (870) 747-3722 beside the collector, which matches the treasurer's line rather than the collector's. The number published above is the one on the collector's own record. If neither answers, the courthouse switchboard on (870) 747-3921 can route the call.

Sources: ARCountyData Monroe County collector record, Association of Arkansas Counties, Monroe and Arkansas.gov Monroe County directory.

How to find a Monroe County parcel and its exact tax

Monroe County publishes two free searches, both sponsored by county offices through ARCountyData. The assessor's search covers real estate records and the collector's covers tax records, receipts and the tax book.

1. Go to the ARCountyData Monroe County page and open Real Estate Records, the free search the assessor sponsors. You can search by owner name, address or PPAN parcel number.
2. Check the market value and assessed value fields on the parcel record. Assessed value is normally 20% of market value unless an Amendment 79 cap is holding it lower.
3. Write down the school district code from the record. The collector's search even lets you filter by it, with Monroe County codes listed as AUG, BRK, BRKC, CLN, CLNC, CP, DT, FARGO, HG, HGC, LT, MARV, PAL, PD, ROEC, WHEA.
4. Cross the district and the city to the millage table on this page to see the rate that will be applied to your assessed value.
5. Open Tax Records for the collector's search, where you can pull up the tax book, the year's bill and any receipt already issued, and print proof of payment.

The county page reported 10,128 parcels when the assessor and collector data were both refreshed on July 17, 2026, which is recent enough to be a reliable starting point. For a boundary question, a flood plain check or a district split, the assessor's office at 123 Madison Street keeps the county's parcel maps and can confirm which district a specific tract sits inside.

Sources: ARCountyData Monroe County records and Monroe County tax record search.

Paying Monroe County property taxes

Monroe County tax on the previous year's assessment is payable up to October 15, and the county's payment point is the collector's window at 123 Madison Street in Clarendon. Payment options are narrower here than in some Arkansas counties, so plan around the office rather than a website.

What the county offers

• In person: the collector's office in the Clarendon courthouse. This is the route the county documents, and it produces a receipt on the spot.
• By mail: the collector's mailing address is P.O. Box 222, Clarendon, AR 72029. Mail early enough to arrive before October 15 rather than on it.
• Online: not currently available through the multi-county Arkansas payment portal run by CountyService.Net, whose county list does not include Monroe. Its status is worth rechecking each year, but treat it as unavailable until the collector says otherwise.

Because there is no county website publishing a fee schedule or a card option, the safest approach is to call the collector's office on (870) 747-3819 before you travel, especially in October when the counter is busiest. Monroe County's legacy county domain now redirects to the generic Arkansas.gov portal page rather than a county site, so any payment link you find elsewhere should be treated with caution. The statewide rules on deadlines and penalties are covered in Arkansas property tax due dates.

Sources: ARCountyData Monroe County collector record and the Arkansas multi-county tax payment portal county list, which Monroe County does not appear on.

Homestead credit in Monroe County

Monroe County residents register the Arkansas homestead credit with the assessor's office at 123 Madison Street in Clarendon, because the assessor is the office that records homesteads in every Arkansas county. The county does not publish its own homestead form online, so this is a filing you make in person or by mail to the assessor, not by submitting a web form.

One caution specific to this county: with no county website publishing homestead guidance, older third-party pages and word of mouth still circulate outdated amounts such as $375. The current figures are $600 on a 2026 bill and $675 on a 2027 bill, which is what the calculator on this page uses for 2026. The state's position is set out on the DFA property tax relief page, and the practical filing steps are in how to apply for the Arkansas homestead credit.

Amendment 79 protections apply in Monroe County the same way they do statewide: taxable value on a primary residence can rise by at most 5% a year and other real property by at most 10%, and owners 65 or older or disabled can freeze the taxable value of their home. The DFA reappraisal schedule places Monroe County on a five-year cycle with the current round dated 2025 and the next listed in 2029, so the county is between reappraisals and most bills move only with millage changes. See Arkansas Amendment 79 property tax limits and the Arkansas homestead tax credit for 2026.

Sources: Arkansas DFA property tax relief, Arkansas DFA county officials directory and the DFA reappraisal cycle schedule.

Appealing a Monroe County assessment

Valuation complaints in Monroe County follow the state equalization process. The first step is informal and free: call the assessor's office and ask for a review of the value against comparable parcels in the same district. Many disputes end there, which is why the state encourages it before any formal filing.

If the informal review does not resolve it, you apply to the Monroe County Board of Equalization. Under Ark. Code 26-27-317, an owner or an agent may apply in person, by petition or by letter to the secretary of the county equalization board on or before the third Monday in August. In Monroe County the county clerk serves as the board's secretary, so the filing goes to Tina Wofford's office at 123 Madison Street, Clarendon, AR 72029, on (870) 747-3632. The board begins hearing appeals no later than the second Monday in August and meets in regular session from August 1 through October 1.

• Filing route: petition or letter to the board secretary, care of the county clerk's office.
• Deadline: the third Monday in August of the assessment year. The state synopsis notes filing can begin as early as July 1.
• What the board hears: whether the valuation placed on the property is correct. It may lower, raise or confirm it.
• Evidence: comparable property record cards and sale prices are the standard evidence. Material evidence not shared with the assessor at least five business days before the hearing can lead the board to continue the case.
• After the board: dissatisfaction can be taken to the county court by petition filed with the county clerk on or before the second Monday in October.

The board cannot adjust an assessment from a year other than the one in which it is meeting, so timing matters more than persistence here. Background reading is in how to appeal a property tax assessment in Arkansas and the site's property tax appeal guide.

Sources: Ark. Code 26-27-317, Ark. Code 26-27-318 and Association of Arkansas Counties, Monroe for the clerk's office details.

Monroe County property tax examples

These rows use the county average of 49.82 mills for 2026 collections and apply one $600 homestead credit, so they are a yardstick for a typical address rather than a prediction for a named parcel. Monroe County's own range runs 8.4 mills either side of this average.

Calculated at the 49.82 mill Monroe County average for 2026 collections, one $600 credit per row, using the same formula as the calculator above.

Monroe County median home value and median tax

The figures below are statistical context drawn from a federal survey and are deliberately kept outside the calculator. They describe the county as a whole, not a parcel.

A quick reconciliation shows why the two numbers do not move together. Taking the median home value of $88,700 through 20% assessment and the 49.82 mill county average suggests roughly $884 before credit, close to double the surveyed median bill of $456. The gap is not an error in either figure: Amendment 79 caps hold taxable value under full assessed value on many parcels, the median-valued home is not in the median-millage district, and the surveyed median counts every taxed residence including homes whose value has been capped for years. Use the survey to judge how Monroe County compares with its neighbours, and the calculator above for a planning number.

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

Monroe County property tax questions

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

  The county average total millage is 49.82 mills for 2026 collections, blending 39.33 school mills, 4.19 city mills and 8.4 county mills. Published rates range from 41.4 mills in the rural Marvell #22 tier to 55.8 mills for a Fargo address inside the Brinkley district.

• Can I pay Monroe County property taxes online?+

  The collector's office at 123 Madison Street in Clarendon is the payment point, and the county does not currently appear on the multi-county Arkansas payment portal operated by CountyService.Net, which lists the counties it accepts. Treat online payment as unavailable until the collector confirms otherwise, and call (870) 747-3819 before you rely on any third-party payment site.

• Why is the Brinkley school levy so high in Monroe County?+

  Brinkley School District carries 43.4 mills for 2026 collections, the highest school rate in the county, made up of 25 mills for maintenance and operations and 18.4 mills of bonds. Marvell #22 is the lowest at 33 mills, so the two ends of the county are 10.4 school mills apart before any city tax is added.

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

  ARCountyData hosts both free searches the county sponsors. The assessor's real estate record search shows ownership, legal description and value, and the collector's tax record search shows billed tax and receipts. The county page listed 10,128 parcels with assessor and collector data refreshed on July 17, 2026.

• Are Holly Grove taxes the same as Clarendon taxes?+

  No. Holly Grove #7 consolidated with Clarendon #6 but kept separate millage rates, so a Holly Grove address pays the Clarendon district's 39.4 school mills plus 5.8 city mills for an overall 53.6 mills, while a Clarendon city address pays a 5.84 mill city rate for 53.64 overall.

• When are Monroe County property taxes due and how do I appeal?+

  Taxes on the previous year's assessment fall due October 15. To appeal a valuation, apply to the secretary of the Monroe County Board of Equalization on or before the third Monday in August. The county clerk, Tina Wofford, on (870) 747-3632, serves as the board secretary and takes the filing.

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

  The maximum is $600 on a 2026 tax bill under Act 330 of 2025, rising to $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, also known as Act 174 of 2026. Residents apply through the Monroe County Assessor's Office at 123 Madison Street in Clarendon, since the county assessor registers homesteads rather than the collector.

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