Public Notice Proposed Property Tax increase 2025

Public Notice: Proposed Property Tax Increase 2025 and 5 Year Tax Digest and Levy History

July 30, 2025

PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE 2025
The Rockdale County Board of Education today announces its intention to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 2.3% over the rollback millage rate. 

Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred. The budget tentatively adopted by the Rockdale County Board of Education requires that a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate be assessed. Therefore, before the Rockdale County Board of Education may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the Board Room, 960 Pine Street NE, Conyers, Georgia on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 10 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and on Monday, August 18, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.

 

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NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

The Rockdale County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a 2025 millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 2.3%.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at the Board Meeting Room, 960 Pine Street NE, Conyers, GA 30012 on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 20.00 mills, an increase of 0.455 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 19.545 mills.

The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $350,000 is approximately $56.88 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $350,000 is approximately $63.70.

 

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PUBLIC NOTICE

(PDF of Current Tax Digest and 5 Year Levy History)

The Rockdale County Board of Education does hereby announce that the 2025 millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held in the Board Meeting Room located at 960 Pine Street on Monday, August 18, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. 48-5-32 do hereby publish the following presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.


CURRENT 2025 TAX DIGEST AND 5 YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY
($ in 1,000s)
COUNTY WIDE
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Real & Personal
2020: 3,213,500
2021: 3,525,747
2022: 4,250,096
2023: 5,039,219
2024: 5,812,744 
2025: 6,119,040

Motor Vehicles
2020:  34,392
2021:  27,560 
2022:  24,572  
2023:  24,809   
2024:  22,379 
2025:  20,107

Mobile Homes
2020: 2,208  
2021: 2,292 
2022: 2,348 
2023: 2,626 
2024: 2,663 
2025: 2,522

Timber-100%
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0 
2025: 0

Heavy Duty Equipment
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0

Gross Digest Total
2020: 3,250,100
2021: 3,555,599
2022: 4,277,016
2023: 5,066,654
2024: 5,837,786
2025: 6,141,669

Less M&O Exemptions 
2020: 549,357  
2021: 571,062
2022: 675,379
2023: 803,506
2024: 847,821
2025: 1,013,597

Net M&O Digest
2020: 2,700,743
2021: 2,984,537
2022: 3,601,637
2023: 4,263,148
2024: 4,989,965
2025: 5,128,072

Gross M&O Millage
2020: 24.60
2021: 22.717
2022: 21.00
2023: 20.00
2024: 20.00
2025: 20.00

Less Rollbacks
2020: 0.00  
2021: 0.00
2022: 0.00
2023: 0.00
2024: 0.00
2025: 0.00

Net M&O Millage   
2020: 24.60
2021: 22.717
2022: 21.00
2023: 20.00
2024: 20.00 
2025: 20.00

Net Taxes Levied
2020: 66,438
2021: 67,517
2022: 75,634
2023: 85,263
2024: 99,799
2025: 102,561

Net Taxes $ Increase
2020: 8,060
2021: 1,361 
2022: 7,835
2023: 9,629
2024: 14,536 
2025: 2,762

Net Taxes % Increase
2020: 13.8
2021: 2.0
2022: 11.6
2023: 12.7
2024: 17.0
2025: 2.8