Property Taxes in Cedar Point: Two Governments, One Bill

The Town's Rate: 11.75 Cents, Held Steady

The Town of Cedar Point's property tax rate for fiscal year 2025-26 is 11.75 cents per $100 of assessed value, unchanged from the previous fiscal year, according to Carolina Coast Online's reporting on the town's budget adoption. That stability is itself worth noting: some nearby coastal NC towns have gone through sharp post-revaluation rate swings in recent budget cycles, and this research did not find evidence of a comparably dramatic change in Cedar Point's municipal rate. This page did not independently confirm the exact prior-year rate trend going back multiple years, or the town's most recent property revaluation date -- Carteret County, like all NC counties, is required by state law to reassess property values on a schedule set by the county (commonly every four or eight years across NC counties), and a buyer should ask the county directly when Cedar Point-area parcels were last revalued and when the next revaluation is scheduled.

Carteret County's Rate: 22.5 Cents

Carteret County's own countywide property tax rate for fiscal year 2025-26 is 22.5 cents per $100 of assessed value. This is the county-level component of a Cedar Point owner's bill and funds county government, Carteret County Schools, and county-level services across the entire county, not town-specific services like the town's own administration or any town park maintenance.

Carteret County's Tax Administration Office maintains its main office in Beaufort and a Western Office specifically at 701 Cedar Point Blvd. -- inside Cedar Point's own town limits -- which is a genuinely convenient, real, sourced fact for a Cedar Point owner needing to pull a current assessed value, pay a bill in person, or ask a question about a specific parcel without driving to the county seat.

The Combined Rate and What It Actually Means in Dollars

Adding the confirmed town rate (11.75 cents) to the confirmed county rate (22.5 cents) produces an approximate combined rate of roughly 34.25 cents per $100 of assessed value for FY2025-26. This page states that as its own arithmetic on two separately confirmed, separately sourced numbers -- not a single officially published "combined rate" -- and it does not include any additional levy that could apply to a specific parcel, such as a fire service district assessment; this research did not confirm whether Cedar Point parcels carry a separate fire district tax on top of the town and county rates, since the town's own fire and EMS service (Western Carteret Fire & EMS Department, headquartered at 140 Sherwood Avenue in Cedar Point) may be funded through the general town budget, a separate district levy, or some combination -- confirm directly with the Town of Cedar Point.

For a concrete illustration: a home assessed at $400,000 would owe roughly $1,370 a year in combined town-plus-county tax at a 34.25-cent combined rate ($400,000 ÷ 100 × $0.3425). A home assessed at $550,000 -- closer to the higher end of the listing-price range found for this market -- would owe roughly $1,884 a year on the same arithmetic. Both are this page's own illustrative calculations, not a substitute for an actual tax bill, which depends on a parcel's current assessed value (which can differ from its market sale price) and any additional levies. Pull the actual current assessed value and bill for a specific parcel from the Carteret County Tax Administration Office's Western Office at 701 Cedar Point Blvd. before relying on either estimate.

Revaluation Cycle and Appeals

North Carolina state law requires every county to reassess property values at least once every eight years, though many coastal counties -- including some neighboring markets covered elsewhere on this site -- have shortened that cycle to four years to keep pace with fast-moving coastal property values. This research did not confirm Carteret County's specific current revaluation cycle length or the most recent revaluation's effective date for Cedar Point-area parcels specifically, and none is invented here. Ask the Carteret County Tax Administration Office directly for the county's current revaluation schedule and any open appeal window before assuming a parcel's assessed value is current or contesting an assessment you believe is inaccurate.

What This Page Does Not Cover

This page does not state whether North Carolina's statewide homestead exemption, elderly/disabled property tax exclusion, or circuit-breaker relief program applies to a specific Cedar Point owner -- North Carolina does offer programs along these lines statewide, but this research did not independently verify their current income thresholds or application process for this build, and stating a stale eligibility figure would be worse than disclosing the gap. It also does not state a mid-year closing proration formula, or confirm whether any Cedar Point parcels carry a separate fire district, school district, or other special-district levy beyond the town and county rates described above.

Before making an offer on any Cedar Point property, pull the parcel's current assessed value and most recent tax bill directly from the Carteret County Tax Administration Office (ideally the Western Office at 701 Cedar Point Blvd., which sits inside town limits) rather than trusting a real estate listing site's tax-estimate field, which can lag the actual current bill by a year or more. Ask directly about any relief program you might qualify for, and confirm whether any special district levy applies to the specific parcel you're evaluating.