Poinsett Property Tax Calculator
Rate basis: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), issued March 2026.
How Poinsett County property taxes are calculated
Arkansas assesses real property at 20% of market value. Poinsett County then multiplies that assessed value by the total millage for the parcel's school district and city, where 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 $120,000 home inside Trumann in the Trumann #21 district, which carries 48.6 mills for 2026 collections:
- $120,000 market value times 20% equals $24,000 assessed value.
- $24,000 times 48.6 divided by 1,000 equals $1,166.40 tax before credit.
- Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $566.40 estimated annual tax.
That is the cheapest city rate in Poinsett County, because Trumann sits in a tier where the county levy drops to 4.6 mills instead of the usual 5.9. Move the same house to Tyronza in the East Poinsett County district at 54.4 mills and the bill before credit climbs to $1,305.60, or $705.60 after it. Nearly $840 a year hinges on nothing but location.
Poinsett County millage rates by district and city
Poinsett County publishes fourteen taxing combinations for 2026 collections, built from five school districts that levy inside the county plus three that fringe in from neighbouring counties, and eight cities that add their own rates. Every row's three columns reconcile to the overall figure.
| School district | City or area | School | City | County | Overall |
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| Trumann #21 | Rural | 38.6 | 0 | 5.9 | 44.5 |
| Trumann #21 | Trumann | 38.6 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 48.6 |
| Jackson County District | Rural | 38.9 | 0 | 5.9 | 44.8 |
| Marked Tree #28 | Rural | 39.5 | 0 | 5.9 | 45.4 |
| Cross County District | Rural | 39.9 | 0 | 5.9 | 45.8 |
| Harrisburg #6 | Rural | 41 | 0 | 5.9 | 46.9 |
| Marked Tree #28 | Marked Tree | 39.5 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 48.8 |
| East Poinsett County | Rural | 43.1 | 0 | 5.9 | 49.0 |
| Harrisburg #6 | Waldenburg | 41 | 2.6 | 5.9 | 49.5 |
| Harrisburg #6 | Fisher | 41 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 50.3 |
| East Poinsett County | Lepanto | 43.1 | 2.1 | 5.9 | 51.1 |
| Harrisburg/Weiner #2 | Weiner | 41 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 52.3 |
| Harrisburg/Weiner #2 | Harrisburg | 41 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 52.3 |
| East Poinsett County | Tyronza | 43.1 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 54.4 |
| County average | 40.66 | 4.14 | 5.81 | 48.84 |
Rows taken from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. Trumann is the one city in the county with a different county levy, 4.6 mills against 5.9 everywhere else.
Why Poinsett County property taxes vary by address
Poinsett County has the third highest average millage of any county in this group, and the widest internal spread, 9.9 mills from cheapest to dearest. Three things drive it.
- Trumann is cheaper than its neighbours by design. The Trumann #21 district carries the lowest school rate in the county at 38.6 mills, but the bigger factor is the county levy. Trumann's city column is assessed at 4.6 mills of county tax instead of the 5.9 mills everywhere else, because the city does not collect on the county library levy of 1.3 mills. That single exemption is worth 1.3 mills, and it is why a Trumann city address lands at 48.6 mills despite the highest city rate in the county at 5.4 mills.
- Tyronza is the dearest address in the county. Tyronza combines the highest school rate, 43.1 mills in the East Poinsett County district, with a full 5.4 mill city levy and the standard 5.9 mill county rate, producing 54.4 mills. The rural tier of the same district is 49.0, so the city line adds 5.4 mills.
- Harrisburg and Weiner share one rate. Both sit in the Harrisburg/Weiner #2 district, both levy the same 5.4 mill city rate, and both produce 52.3 mills. That district is the product of the Weiner school district consolidating into Harrisburg, and this combination is now the joint highest in the county alongside Tyronza's neighbours.
- Three districts in the county are administered elsewhere. The Cross County District is run from Cross County, the Jackson County District from Jackson County, and East Poinsett County fringes into Mississippi County. Each produces its own rural rate with no city column at all.
The practical effect is that Poinsett County has no single useful rate. The 44.5 mill rural Trumann tier and the 54.4 mill Tyronza combination are both real, and they sit roughly ten mills apart.
Harrisburg, Trumann, Marked Tree and the rest of Poinsett County
Harrisburg
Harrisburg is the county seat and carries the joint highest rate in Poinsett County at 52.3 mills. Its city levy is 5.4 mills, made up of 5 mills general and 0.4 mills fire. The assessor works from 401 Market Street and the collector from the Annex 2 building at 108 N East Street, so the two offices are a short walk apart.
Trumann
Trumann is the county's largest city and its cheapest incorporated address, at 48.6 mills, despite levying 5.4 mills of city tax. The reason sits in the county column: Trumann is the one place in Poinsett County where the county levy is 4.6 mills rather than 5.9, because the city does not collect on the 1.3 mill county library levy. The savings more than offsets the lower school rate available in the rural tier.
Marked Tree and Lepanto
Marked Tree levies 3.4 mills and sits inside the Marked Tree #28 district for a 48.8 mill total, within half a mill of Trumann. Lepanto carries a 2.1 mill city rate, the lowest positive city rate in the county, inside the East Poinsett County district, for 51.1 mills. Both towns collect the full county levy.
Tyronza, Weiner and the small towns
Tyronza has the county's highest total, 54.4 mills. Weiner matches Harrisburg at 52.3. Fisher levies 3.4 mills and Waldenburg 2.6, producing 50.3 and 49.5 respectively. All of them carry the standard 5.9 mill county rate, which is what separates them from Trumann.
One quirk is worth flagging on the Harrisburg/Weiner rows. The state report's rate table gives that district 41 school mills, but the same report's school district breakdown lists the consolidated district at zero, a reporting artifact from the Weiner merger. The 41 mill figure is the one that agrees with the arithmetic of the overall rate, so use it.
Poinsett County Assessor
Official name: Poinsett County Assessor's Office. The assessor appraises and assesses real property between the first Monday in January and July 1, and personal property between January 1 and May 31. The office handles exemptions and administers the homestead credit. Payment is the collector's job.
Poinsett County runs online personal property assessment through the county service platform, and the county warns that the process takes one to two business days, so a tag renewal attempted on the same day will not go through. The county also warns that if you did not assess in Poinsett County last year you cannot complete an online assessment at all, and must come into the office with titles, registrations or paperwork from your previous county.
Sources: Poinsett County Assessor and Poinsett County online assessment.
Poinsett County Collector
Official name: Poinsett County Collector's Office. Poinsett County combines the sheriff and collector in one elected office. The office collects county, school and improvement district taxes and turns them over to the county treasurer monthly. It does not set values.
Two Poinsett County rules catch people out. The collector does not accept checks for delinquent taxes, so a delinquent balance has to be paid another way. And the office also runs the sheriff's operation from a separate building at 1500 Justice Drive, so correspondence meant for tax collection should go to the Annex 2 address on North East Street.
Sources: Poinsett County Collector's Office and Poinsett County officials.
How to look up a Poinsett County parcel and its tax
Poinsett County splits public records across three systems, and which one you need depends on what you are checking. The collector's side sits on the county payment portal, the assessor publishes parcel data through ARCountyData, and personal property assessment runs on its own county service page.
- For a tax bill, amount due or receipt, start at the Poinsett County payment portal on taxpayment.countyservice.net. It handles personal property and real estate together for tax year 2025 and is the system the collector itself links to.
- To find the parcel without a bill in hand, search by owner name or parcel number. The portal accepts both, and results are grouped by year so you can see the current balance against earlier ones.
- For values, ownership and legal descriptions, open the Poinsett County record on ARCountyData, where the assessor's office is the listed source. Read the market value beside the assessed value; Arkansas sets assessed value at 20% of market value unless an Amendment 79 cap or a freeze is holding taxable value down.
- Check the school district and city on the record against the millage table above, and if the address is in Trumann, confirm the county column reads 4.6 rather than 5.9. That single figure accounts for the county's biggest rate anomaly.
- For personal property, use the separate assess page. The county requires your house number or PO box number only, not the street name, and assessments submitted online take one to two business days to process.
If you assessed in Poinsett County last year, the online route works. If you did not, the county requires an in-person visit with titles or registration paperwork, so plan for a trip to Harrisburg rather than an evening online.
Sources: Poinsett County tax payment portal, ARCountyData Poinsett County and Poinsett County online assessment.
Paying Poinsett County property taxes
Poinsett County taxes are payable from March 1 through October 15 in the calendar year after assessment, and the collector extends a 10% penalty under Arkansas Code 26-35-501 against anything unpaid after that date. Poinsett County also publishes a rule that is unusual in this group: checks are not accepted for delinquent taxes.
- In person: Poinsett County Annex 2, 108 N East St. in Harrisburg, on the main floor, Monday to Friday 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
- By mail: Poinsett County Collector, Annex 2, 108 N East St., Harrisburg, AR 72432.
- Online: through the county payment portal, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, taking Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express. A fee is charged by the service provider, and the county states that it does not receive any portion of it.
- Installments: Poinsett County accepts installment payments on current taxes only, and the collector's own wording is unusually flexible. You can mail payments for any reasonable amount, whenever you want, between March 1 and October 15. The final balance still has to clear by the deadline to avoid the penalty.
Personal property is the trap here. Arkansas law makes it a misdemeanor for a collector to accept real estate tax without also requiring payment of personal property tax due on the same records, so an unpaid vehicle assessment will block a house payment. Clear both together. The statewide rules are in when Arkansas property taxes are due.
Sources: Poinsett County Collector's Office and the Association of Arkansas Counties assessor handbook.
Homestead credit in Poinsett County
Arkansas's homestead credit reduces the property tax on a qualifying primary residence. Poinsett County residents apply at the assessor's office in Harrisburg, and the county states plainly that all homesteads must be applied for by October 15.
Poinsett County's own assessor page still quotes a $375 maximum for this credit, and a state FAQ document quotes $350 in one older passage. Neither is current. The statutory maximum is $600 on a 2026 bill under Act 330 of 2025, rising to $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, signed in May 2026 as Act 174 of 2026. The county's practical advice is still worth following: apply once, and you do not need to reapply unless you buy a new home or move. This calculator models a 2026 bill, so it uses $600. Steps are in how to apply for the Arkansas homestead credit.
Poinsett County also administers the age 65 or disabled freeze. The county's guidance is specific about what the freeze does not cover: land priced as agriculture, including timber and pasture, and rental property are excluded, while the homestead itself qualifies. Bring documentation verifying your age or the date of disability to the assessor's office. See the Arkansas senior property tax freeze.
Sources: Poinsett County Assessor, Arkansas DFA property tax relief and HB1103, Act 174 of 2026.
Appealing a Poinsett County assessment
Start with the assessor. Poinsett County valuation questions usually resolve once the property record card is checked, and Arkansas law entitles every owner to an informal hearing before filing a formal appeal.
The formal route is the Poinsett County Board of Equalization. The county held its organizational meeting on August 3, 2026 at the Poinsett County Annex 1 building, and the board hears property owner cases through October 1.
- First contact: Poinsett County Assessor's Office, (870) 578-4435
- Board secretary: Poinsett County Clerk, courthouse, Harrisburg
- 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 board's scope is narrow by statute and the county's own guidance repeats it: the Board of Equalization rules on whether the value placed on your property is accurate and uniform, not on whether the tax is affordable. Arkansas law also bars the board from hearing appeals of agricultural, pasture and timberland valuations derived from state guidelines, so farmland owners have a different route. Bring property record cards for comparable properties in the same district, and send them to the assessor at least five days before the hearing to avoid exclusion. More in how to appeal a property tax assessment in Arkansas.
Sources: Arkansas DFA, property valuation appeals to county court, Arkansas Assessment Coordination Division deadlines and Poinsett County equalization board notice.
Poinsett County property tax examples
These examples use the Poinsett County average of 48.84 mills for 2026 collections with the $600 homestead credit applied. They are estimates: your parcel sits in one of fourteen combinations running from 44.5 to 54.4 mills.
| Market value | Assessed at 20% | Tax before credit | After $600 credit | Monthly |
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| $100,000 | $20,000 | $977 | $377 | $31.40 |
| $103,000 (county median) | $20,600 | $1,006 | $406 | $33.84 |
| $250,000 | $50,000 | $2,442 | $1,842 | $153.50 |
| $400,000 | $80,000 | $3,907 | $3,307 | $275.60 |
| $500,000 | $100,000 | $4,884 | $4,284 | $357.00 |
Calculated at the 48.84 mill Poinsett County average for 2026 collections. Each row applies one $600 credit for a qualifying primary residence.
Poinsett 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.
Poinsett County has the lowest median home value of the five counties in this group, $103,000, and the highest effective rate at 0.53%. That combination is common in the Delta: modest property values meet a millage load that is higher than the state average, so the effective rate looks steep even though the median bill of $543 is small in absolute terms. At the 48.84 mill average, a $103,000 home would imply about $1,006 before the credit, roughly double the surveyed median, which reflects Amendment 79 caps and where the median-priced parcels sit.
Sources: B25077, median value; B25103, median tax; B01003, population. These are survey estimates and carry sampling error.
Poinsett County property tax questions
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The county average total millage is 48.84 mills for 2026 collections, blending 40.66 school mills, 4.14 city mills and 5.81 county mills. Published rates run from 44.5 mills in the rural Trumann #21 tier to 54.4 mills for a Tyronza address in the East Poinsett County district.
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Because Trumann does not collect on the county library levy of 1.3 mills, so the county column for a Trumann address reads 4.6 mills instead of the 5.9 mills that applies everywhere else in Poinsett County. That is worth 1.3 mills, and it is enough to make Trumann the cheapest incorporated address in the county at 48.6 mills.
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Yes, at 54.4 mills. Tyronza combines the highest school rate in the county, 43.1 mills in the East Poinsett County district, with a full 5.4 mill city levy and the standard 5.9 mill county rate. Harrisburg and Weiner follow at 52.3 mills.
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Use the Poinsett County payment portal on taxpayment.countyservice.net, which the collector links to directly. It accepts Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express for personal property and real estate, is available 24 hours a day, and charges a service provider fee the county does not share in. Checks are not accepted for delinquent taxes.
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For values and ownership, use the Poinsett County record on ARCountyData. For amounts due and receipts, use the county payment portal, which groups results by year. Personal property assessment runs separately on the county service assess page and requires your house number or PO box number only.
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Yes. Poinsett County accepts installments on current taxes only, and the collector's guidance is that you may mail payments for any reasonable amount at any time between March 1 and October 15. The balance must clear by October 15 to avoid the 10% penalty.
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The maximum is $600 on a 2026 tax bill under Act 330 of 2025, rising to $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, Act 174 of 2026. The Poinsett County assessor's page still quotes $375, which is out of date. Apply at the assessor's office by October 15 and you need not reapply unless you buy a new home or move.
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Effectively yes. Arkansas law makes it a misdemeanor for a collector to accept real estate tax without also requiring payment of any personal property tax due on the same records. In Poinsett County, an outstanding vehicle or business assessment will block a real estate payment.
Nearby county pages
Official sources
All fourteen Poinsett County taxing combinations and the county average used above.
Assessment season, the homestead application route, the age 65 or disabled freeze and the real estate and personal property phone lines.
Payment routes, office hours, the installment policy and the no-checks rule on delinquent taxes.
Verified titles, office addresses and phone numbers for the assessor, sheriff and collector.
The collector's online payment system for real estate and personal property, and its tax year.
The January 1 to May 31 assessment window and the office's warnings about eligibility and processing time.
The assessor's parcel records for values, ownership and legal descriptions.
Both appeal steps, the third Monday in August deadline and the county court petition date.
Poinsett County's reappraisal year on the state's implementation plan for Act 139.
The homestead credit increase to $675 for assessment years beginning January 1, 2026.