The Villages of Citrus Hills, this market's biggest community by far, sits in the town of Hernando. Search its property tax rate and the county name in the address will tell you the wrong thing to look up — because the town of Hernando is inside Citrus County, while Hernando County is an entirely separate county to the south, covering Spring Hill and Brooksville.
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Talk to a Specialist →Sits inside Citrus County. Home to the Villages of Citrus Hills. Taxed at the Citrus County rate — roughly 0.79%–1.0% effective.
A separate county south of Citrus, covering Spring Hill and Brooksville. Home to Timber Pines, Brookridge, High Point, and Wellington at Seven Hills. Roughly 0.72%–0.92% effective.
The rates aren't wildly different in this case, but the confusion is real and repeats constantly — search "Hernando property tax" while researching Citrus Hills and you'll pull up figures for the wrong tax roll entirely. Get the two conflated and you could be budgeting off a different county's millage, exemption rules, and payment deadlines than the one that actually bills your parcel.
Most buyers assume a community's tax county matches the more prominent name attached to it. Citrus Hills's marketing leans on the "Hernando" name because that's the town address — but the entity that sets and collects the tax rate is the county, and the county here is Citrus, not Hernando. It's the inverse of the usual naming confusion, where a community's marketing name differs from its location; here the location's own name overlaps with a different county's name entirely.
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| Community | Actual county | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|
| Villages of Citrus Hills (town of Hernando) | Citrus County | ~0.79%–1.0% |
| Arbor Lakes, Meadowcrest | Citrus County | ~0.79%–1.0% |
| Timber Pines, Brookridge, High Point | Hernando County | ~0.72%–0.92% |
| Wellington at Seven Hills, Laurel Ridge | Hernando County | ~0.72%–0.92% |
Both counties run comfortably under Florida's roughly 1.10% statewide median effective rate, so the stakes of this particular mix-up are lower than they'd be in a market with a bigger county-to-county gap. The real risk isn't the dollar amount — it's pulling the wrong exemption rules, payment calendar, or assessor contact information because you looked up the county that shares a name with the town instead of the county that actually bills you.
The honest way to shop this market: before you research any tax rate, confirm which county actually appears on the property's tax bill — not which name appears in the town address or the community's marketing — then apply that county's exemptions and deadlines specifically.
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