TGFOA 2026 Fall Conference · Booth 59

Meigs County

Population 12,758 (Census 2020). 2 people from Meigs County at the conference.

This page is built only from public records: the Tennessee Comptroller's certified property tax tables, the Department of Revenue's retail sales activity, and the 2020 Census. Every figure names its source and year. It is what a resident, a reporter, or a bond analyst can already see about Meigs County. The question the booth is asking is whether they can see it in a form they can use.

What the numbers show

Meigs County's certified county property tax rate was $1.6885 in 2025, against $1.9813 in 2018. The county's most recent certified-rate reset followed a reappraisal and took place in 2021, when the rate moved from $1.9813 to $1.6885. A reset lowers the rate because assessed values rose, and it is not a tax cut. On a $300,000 home in unincorporated Meigs County, the 2025 county property tax bill is $1,266. Meigs County has 1 municipality with its own rate in the Comptroller's table, Decatur, where the combined 2025 rate is $2.0334. The county had 12,758 residents in the 2020 Census.

Among the 17 Tennessee counties whose latest reset was in 2021, Meigs County's 2025 rate of $1.6885 is the 2nd lowest, and the average for that group is $2.258. The page also compares Meigs County with 4 other counties chosen for location or similar population: Lewis County ($1.0335), Cannon County ($1.626), Bledsoe County ($2.063) and Fentress County ($1.35). In that group of 5, Meigs County's rate is the 2nd highest. Retail sales activity in Meigs County was $66.9 million in 2025, down 0.1% from 2024, while statewide retail sales activity was up 1.8%. County growth beat the state's in 6 of 12 months. Service Stations make up 24.5% of county retail sales against 7.5% statewide. Autos, Boats, Aircraft make up 3.7% against 20.5% statewide. Other Retail grew fastest, up 18.8%.

ADA Title II deadline: April 26, 2028. The Department of Justice rule gives public entities with a total population of under 50,000 until then to bring web content and dashboards to WCAG 2.1 AA. The tier is set by the entity's total population in the most recent decennial Census; Meigs County's 2020 count of 12,758 puts it in the under-50,000 tier. Special district governments, such as utility and school districts, have April 26, 2028 regardless of size.

A $300,000 home in Meigs County, 2025

Everyone knows their rate. Almost nobody has seen the bill side by side with the city next door, or watched it move through a reappraisal. Certified property tax rates, tax years 2018 to 2025, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury. Residential assessment 25%. Tap a bar to put it in the cards.

Appraised value $300,000 Tax year 2025

Decatur combined rate, 2025 2.0334 per $100 assessed

City share of the bill 17.0% of the combined rate

Decatur bill, 2025 $1,525 county $1,266, was $1,743 in 2018

Drag the year back to 2018. A lower bill after a reappraisal year is a certified-rate reset, not a tax cut: the rate falls because the appraisals rose. The bars keep one scale across years so the change is real.

Rates behind these bars, 2025

Municipality	County rate	City rate	District	Combined
Decatur	1.6885	0.3449		2.0334
Unincorporated	1.6885	0.00		1.6885

Compare within your county only; appraisal levels differ by county. The county rate that applies inside a city can differ from the unincorporated rate where a city sits outside a county fire or road district.

Your county reset its rate in 2021, with 16 others

Peer groups are always by size. Nobody groups counties by reappraisal year, yet that is the group whose budget conversation matches yours this year. Tennessee's certified tax rate law rolls the county rate down after a reappraisal, so a drop is a reset, not a cut. The one place a change is a real increase is the year right after. Tap a county in the cohort list to draw its line over yours.

County rate, 20251.6885was 1.9813 in 2018

Resets since 201912021

In the room from your cohort10of 17 counties that reset in 2021

2025: 1.6885(0.0% on the year before) Meigs County rate average of the 2021 cohort reset year

The 2021 cohort, county rate 2025. Tap to overlay.

* someone from this county is at TGFOA 2026. Up to four overlays at once. Reset years are inferred from the rate path; the Comptroller's reappraisal schedule is the authoritative list.

Your retail base against Tennessee, 2024 to 2025

Is the sales tax base growing faster or slower than the state's, which months carried it, and what is it made of. Tennessee Department of Revenue retail sales activity by county, January 2024 to December 2025. Tap a sector below to redraw the chart for that sector.

Meigs County, 2025 vs 2024-0.1%$67.0M to $66.9M

Tennessee, 2025 vs 2024+1.84%$154.43B to $157.27B

All retail, Meigs County vs Tennessee, 2025 by month

Meigs County Tennessee 100 = the same month of 2024

What the base is made of, 2025

Each sector's share of Meigs County retail sales minus its share statewide, in points. Right means over-weight versus Tennessee. Tap a sector to chart it.

County-level retail activity as reported to the Department of Revenue. A city page shows its host county. Sector categories are DOR's; a single dealership cluster or outlet mall can dominate a small county.

Meigs County last rate reset 2021 county rate 2025: 1.6885 2 at TGFOA from this county

2019202020212022202320242025 none Year of the latest certified-rate reset, county rate, TN Comptroller tables 2018 to 2025. Tap a county.

Compare with a neighbour

Same county first, then the nearest by 2020 population. Everyone listed is in the room this week.

Every figure here is public and dated.

If one is wrong, tell me and it is fixed on this page tonight. You will know before I do. This is the free version, built from public records in a week. The paid version runs on your own ERP data: budget to actual, overtime and position control, revenue forecasting, as a fixed-price budget dashboard or the full reporting platform. Ask at booth 59.

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Sources: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, certified property tax rates, tax years 2018 to 2025. Tennessee Department of Revenue, retail sales activity by county, 2024 and 2025. U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 decennial count. Sound BI, Nashville, Tennessee. aaron@soundbi.com.

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