Property tax and city fees
What a Loris household actually pays, pulled straight from the county's certified tax levy and the city budget. One combined bill covers city, county, and school.
City tax on a $150k home
$648 / year, the city's 108-mill share.
Full city tax bill
≈ $1,021 / year, owner-occupied home, city + county + school.
One bill, not three
The county mails one bill, itemized by city, county, and school.
Pay or look up your bill
Horry County assesses and collects the bill, not the City of Loris. (843) 915-5470
What a City of Loris household pays
Worked example: a $150,000 owner-occupied home. South Carolina assesses an owner-occupied home at 4% of value, so this home is assessed at $6,000, and each mill costs $6.00 a year on it.
| Goes to | Mills | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| County purposes | 52.1 | $312.60 |
| School debt only | 10.0 | $60.00 |
| City of Loris | 108.0 | $648.00 |
| Property-tax total | 170.1 | $1,020.60 |
Plus direct city fees (not property tax)
Sanitation and water/sewer are separate city fees, billed apart from property tax.
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sanitation (Jordan Waste curbside) | $30.00/mo |
| Water/sewer, in-city, estimated | ≈ $83/mo |
What's different outside city limits
A household just outside the city line, in unincorporated Horry County, pays no city tax. Instead the county tax bill picks up a fire district levy and a waste-management levy, and water and trash service work differently than they do inside Loris.
| Goes to | Mills | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| County purposes | 52.1 | $312.60 |
| School debt only | 10.0 | $60.00 |
| County Fire District | 20.2 | $121.20 |
| County Fire Apparatus Replacement | 1.5 | $9.00 |
| Waste Management (self-haul centers) | 8.1 | $48.60 |
| Property-tax total | 91.9 | $551.40 |
On this example home, the city resident's property tax runs about $469 a year more than the unincorporated resident's, 78.2 mills. That difference maps to the services the extra millage pays for: city police instead of the county sheriff's road patrol, a city fire department, city curbside trash pickup, city street maintenance, and water and sewer billed at the city's rate. The city's water and sewer ordinance also sets its out-of-city rate at about double the in-city rate, which the ordinance itself frames as an annexation incentive.