Property tax and returns for Rockvale

County

Rutherford County

Property tax (per $100 assessed, 2025)

1.8762 county (unincorporated)

Sales tax, combined

9.75%

County Trustee

Teb Batey · Murfreesboro

Assessor of Property

Rob Mitchell · Murfreesboro

Population, 2020 → 2024

Unincorporated; the Census publishes no city estimate

State and city business tax

Filed with the TN Department of Revenue

Straight-line distance

21.1 miles from Franklin

Sources: TN Comptroller, TN Department of Revenue, U.S. Census Bureau. Details

Rockvale has no city government, so the only property tax rate that applies is the county’s. The Census Bureau counts it as a census-designated place, a named community that isn’t incorporated. For tax year 2025, the Comptroller’s Tax Aggregate Report lists Rutherford County’s rate at 1.8762 per $100 of assessed value, and that figure is the whole rate for a Rockvale property.

Compare Eagleville, another Rutherford County community, which is incorporated and adds its own 0.4051 on top for a combined 2.2813. Because Rockvale isn’t a city, the Census Bureau’s city and town population series carries no estimate for it. Reading a property bill line by line is part of tax planning with Haven.

Rockvale property tax is paid to the Rutherford County Trustee, Teb Batey. The Trustee’s mailing address is a post office box: PO Box 1316, Murfreesboro 37133. Assessed values are a separate office’s job. That is the Assessor of Property, Rob Mitchell, at 319 N Maple St, Suite 200, also in Murfreesboro, the county seat.

The county rate here is the same one that applies in Christiana and Walterhill, the other unincorporated Rutherford communities on our list. Haven can use your paid amounts when preparing a personal return, and the secure client portal is the simplest way to send the receipt.

No city business tax applies in Rockvale, because only a municipality can adopt one and Tennessee counties stopped imposing business tax on January 1, 2014. The state business tax still reaches a Rockvale business once gross receipts hit $100,000, and that return goes to the Tennessee Department of Revenue.

Below the line, receipts over $3,000 call for a minimal activity license from the county clerk, which carries a $15 fee. Rockvale sits 21.1 miles from the center of Franklin in a straight line. Haven prepares the federal return and the Tennessee filings together under business tax preparation, so the gross receipts figure on one matches the other.