Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs, Ball Ground and the communities around them. Neighborhoods, schools, local development, and what it’s actually like to live here.
Georgia’s standard homestead exemption removes $2,000 from the assessed value of your primary residence. You have to own the home and live in it as of January 1, and you have to apply. Nobody applies it for you, and it does not transfer from the previous owner. Here is the part that gets skipped. That … Read more
For 2025, the total property tax rate in unincorporated Cherokee County was 26.251 mills. Inside a city, the county-level portion was 23.363 mills, and the city adds its own rate on top. On a $400,000 home before exemptions, unincorporated works out to roughly $4,200 a year. The number most homeowners never see is where that … Read more