Taxes in Hendersonville
Hendersonville shares Tennessee's real, structural no-state-income-tax advantage and the same high combined sales tax rate as Murfreesboro, but its property-tax picture is the one metric this pass could NOT resolve to a single figure despite real additional research -- a genuine, disclosed gap rather than an invented number.
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Learn moreNo state income tax -- identical to every other Tennessee city in this dataset
Tennessee levies no state personal income tax on wages, and fully repealed its Hall Income Tax on interest/dividends as of January 1, 2021 -- a real, structural advantage that applies identically in Hendersonville as it does in Murfreesboro or anywhere else in the state.
Combined sales tax: 9.75%, the same state-maximum rate as Murfreesboro
Hendersonville's combined sales tax rate is 9.75% (7.0% state + 2.75% local) -- the maximum local add-on under Tennessee law, identical to Murfreesboro's rate. Tennessee's statewide average combined rate (9.61%) is the second-highest of any US state, trailing only Louisiana (10.13%), per Tax Foundation's midyear 2026 data.
Property tax: a real, unresolved disagreement -- disclosed honestly rather than picked
Unlike Murfreesboro/Rutherford County, where this same research pass resolved the effective property-tax rate to a single, well-sourced figure, Sumner County's picture genuinely did not resolve. Aggregator sites disagree on the county's own effective rate: PropertyTaxPeek cites 0.55% in one place and 0.36% elsewhere on the same domain; tax-rates.org separately cites 0.69% "of assessed fair market value" (a figure that may conflate assessed vs. appraised value given Tennessee's 25% assessment ratio, not reconciled this pass). Cited combined nominal rates (Sumner County + City of Hendersonville, per $100 assessed value) also disagree by source/vintage: one figure sums to $3.1707/$100 (County $2.2520 + City $0.9187), another to $2.0093/$100 (County $1.421 + City $0.5883) -- converting each at the state's 25% assessment ratio yields effective rates of roughly 0.50% and 0.79% of appraised value respectively, a genuinely wide, unreconciled spread. Confirm the current, specific combined rate directly with the Sumner County Trustee and City of Hendersonville for a specific address.
SmartAsset's original median-dollar figure, for context
SmartAsset separately cited a $1,885 median annual property tax paid in Sumner County -- a dollar figure, not a rate, and one that cannot be safely converted to an effective rate without a matching median home value from the same source. Disclosed here as a data point rather than folded into the rate estimate above.
Key takeaways
- Tennessee has no state income tax on wages, interest, dividends, or capital gains (Hall Income Tax fully repealed as of 2021) -- identical advantage to Murfreesboro.
- Hendersonville's combined sales tax rate is 9.75%, the same state-maximum rate as Murfreesboro; Tennessee's 9.61% statewide average is the 2nd-highest of any US state (Tax Foundation, 2026).
- Sumner County's effective property-tax rate remains genuinely UNRESOLVED after this pass's additional research: cited figures range from roughly 0.36%-0.79% of appraised value depending on source and methodology -- confirm the current specific rate directly with the Sumner County Trustee.
- SmartAsset's $1,885 median annual property tax figure is a dollar amount, not a rate, and was not converted into the estimate above without a matching home-value figure from the same source.
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