Alamance County sets 25-year high for property tax collections
Alamance County hit a 25-year collection high, taking in 99.21% of the property taxes it levied, or $111.45 million. Vehicle-tax recovery also improved.
Alamance County collected 99.21 percent of the property taxes it levied for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, bringing in $111,450,792.78 of $112,353,067.36. Brad Fowler called it the highest he could find in at least 25 years.
Fowler presented the settlement to the Alamance County Board of Commissioners. The county collected about $9.9 million more than the year before. The rate improved by 0.18 percentage points from 99.03 percent, and it topped the 99.0 percent rate the county had posted in 2022, when it collected $90,820,016.05 of $91,736,311.70 levied. The county also keeps historical tax-rate records dating back to 1939.
Vehicle taxes remain the harder piece to collect, but Alamance pulled more of that money back than it did a year earlier. When motor vehicle taxes are removed, the county’s collection rate rises to 99.31 percent. The tax office also recovered 43.71 percent of vehicle taxes left after collections by the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, up from 38.65 percent the previous year.
The tax office handles about 74,000 parcels of real property, 156,000 registered motor vehicles, 12,000 items of personal property owned by individuals and the combined personal property of 4,700 businesses, generating about $105 million in property-tax revenue each year. Alamance’s county-wide tax rate for 2025-2026 is 0.494 per $100 valuation, effective July 1, 2025. Compared with five similar counties, only Pitt County did better at 99.43 percent, while the five-county average was 98.84 percent.
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