It is not just you. By Redfin's count, Jacksonville's property tax bill grew faster than almost any metro in the country, third of the 50 largest, while the full housing payment nearly doubled. Here is the number behind the November amendment fight, and an estimate of how much your own bill has climbed since the year you bought.
Pick the year you bought and drop in your current annual property tax. We estimate what you were likely paying back then, and how much the bill has risen since, using the pace Redfin measured for the Jacksonville metro. This is the metro trend, not your exact parcel, so treat it as a gut check and confirm the real numbers with your county appraiser.
The five metros with the largest property tax increases since 2019. Jacksonville sits third, and three of the five are in Florida. The same boom that pulled people in pushed assessed values, and the tax bill, up with them.
Median monthly property tax change since 2019, single-family homes, Redfin analysis of the 50 most populous U.S. metros, data as of August 2024.
Florida has no state income tax, so property tax carries more of the local load, and the pandemic boom hit Jacksonville's tax base from both sides. Out-of-state buyers drove home prices up, which lifted assessed values, and assessed value is the base your bill is calculated on. Demand for roads, services, and disaster resilience pushed local budgets higher at the same time. Even though Florida's effective tax rate actually drifted down as values outran millage, the dollars owed went up, because the value they are charged against went up faster. That is why the bill feels broken even when the rate looks reasonable.
This is the pressure the November amendment is responding to. The savings calculator answers what you would get back if it passes. The county impact study answers what local budgets would give up to fund it. This page is the part everyone feels first: how far the bill has already run.
The headline figures are from Redfin's analysis of property taxes for single-family homes across the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas, data as of August 2024, reported by The MortgagePoint and published by Redfin. Jacksonville's median monthly property tax rose 59.6% since 2019 to about $228, third highest of the 50 metros behind Indianapolis (66.7%) and Atlanta (65.8%); the median total monthly housing payment rose 99% to about $2,735. Nationally, property taxes rose about 30% over the same period.
The "what changed since you bought" estimate is not a year-by-year tax record. It applies one disclosed assumption: that your bill grew at the Jacksonville metro's average compound pace implied by the verified 59.6% rise since 2019, about 9.8% a year. Your actual assessment depends on your parcel's assessed value, your homestead and Save Our Homes cap, and your taxing district's millage, none of which this estimate knows. It is a metro-trend gut check, not a determination of your bill. For exact history, use your county property appraiser and your annual TRIM notice.
See what the November amendment actually does, run your savings in the amendment calculator, see what your county would give up, estimate your real year-1 bill in the Save Our Homes tax estimator, or open your county from the Florida property tax hub. Local detail: Duval, St. Johns, Clay, and Nassau.