The Villages 2024 Property Tax Comparison
 

Looking at assessment rates and home property tax invoices, this is the type of analysis that influenced my home purchase.

The valuation assessment based total for each location. Unincorporated then within a city.

Much of The Villages north of 44 is unincorporated, if within Sumter County. If in Lake County most are within Fruitland Park, Lady Lake or Leesburg. South of 44, in Sumter County, development is mostly within Wildwood.

I wanted to include the forever property tax burden to my budget. Bonds and sub-district M&O are a separate number. I have a separate analysis for those numbers but only for the target districts we looked at.

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Map of unincorporated Sumter County:

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To look up bond balances, maturity and interest rate, look here:
Finance - The Villages Community Development Districts

LOL, it should be titled “County property tax comparison within the Villages. The Villages has nothing to do with the County taxes you pay.

Not sure I understand. If you live in one of the cities, do you pay the tax you listed plus the county tax or does your city tax include the county tax.

The city tax numbers presented INCLUDE county taxes.

The Wildwood, Fruitland, Leesburg tax for which you get nothing in return.

For many years, un-incorporated Sumter County taxes on residential properties are not only the lowest in The Villages but they actually go down a little almost every year! [Bigger base, no schools to build and maintain, and the roads are paid for by the bonds.]

Our friends up north can't believe that.

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PS: The 2022 tax bill is $609 less than the 2006 tax bill. That's 16 years ago!

They were very successful is expanding their tax base................glad I'm not "in the city."

For most of my entire adult life, have always chose to live in an unincorporated part of a county. Too much overlap/redundancy

We're seeing more law enforcement presence, in Wildwood. Especially traffic enforcement of speed and some neighborhood patrols.

We get actual cars that patrol our streets, and Write Speeding Tickets. In a month we see police presence more than the 15 years between the 6’s. How many times do you see a CS drive past your house in the wee hours of the night.

Then again some just get used to the speed of FedEx, UPS and every lawn/landscape company in TV. We couldn’t get used to it so just kept moving south. So more taxes for a service that is very lacking, well worth the few $$

I’ve been seeing Wildwood Police patrolling our neighborhood more frequently. Other than that I guess we can brag about the new parking structure downtown. :1rotfl:

All those young folk down South drive faster. Up North, we don't need increased police presence. Sends a negative message.

Additional taxes required
 

If you buy new, you pay an additional tax to the city of Wildwood(~1200). Unincorporated pays just Sumter county taxes. The rest pay a municipality tax and the Sumter tax. Generally the area between 466 and 466 A is somewhat safe except for the Fruitland park municipality on the east side and the south west area near Wildwood.

Many with 20 years plus in TV have moved south. You must never travel any roads in TV because Speed has been an issue for more than 10 years, Between the 6’s. But those newer to TV like to ignore problems especially lack of police presence.

Let’s face when Farmer, publicly stated “our department doesn’t waste our time with speed, just those we think may be under the influence” so CS we’re nite night after 9.

Since there is a new sheriff in town I actually saw a CS car with a person parked on the grass on BV. For 10 years that car would be sitting in the same spot for 3 weeks sans a breathing body.

I make a comparison of taxes every year. Attached is the 2024 comparison.