Budget explorer
Where the money goes
Hertford County's General Fund pays for most day-to-day county services. For fiscal year 2026 (July 2025 – June 2026), the commissioners adopted a balanced General Fund of $30,615,964.
Pending Finance confirmation. These figures were copied from the county's FY2025-26 Budget Ordinance and have not yet been confirmed by Hertford County Finance. Call (252) 358-7804 before relying on them.
FY26 General Fund
$30.62M
Adopted · balanced
From property taxes
45%
$13,752,484
All county funds
$34.67M
General Fund plus water, solid waste, fire & 911
Spending by area
- Public safety$9.80M · 32%
- General government$6.41M · 21%
- Human services$6.28M · 21%
- Education$5.69M · 19%
- Debt service$1.65M · 5%
- Development$547K · 2%
- Partners$249K · 1%
- Public schools (current expense)$4.38M · 14.3%
- DSS administration$3.47M · 11.3%
- Sheriff$3.07M · 10.0%
- Detention center$2.57M · 8.4%
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)$2.09M · 6.8%
- DSS public assistance$1.43M · 4.7%
- Public buildings & maintenance$1.34M · 4.4%
- Roanoke-Chowan Community College$1.24M · 4.1%
- Administration$1.16M · 3.8%
- 911 Central Communications$858K · 2.8%
- Courthouse / administration debt$822K · 2.7%
- Information technology$634K · 2.1%
- Human resources & risk management$625K · 2.0%
- Ahoskie Elementary School debt$567K · 1.9%
- Aging administration$558K · 1.8%
- Finance office$541K · 1.8%
- Health department$523K · 1.7%
- Fire departments$413K · 1.3%
- Emergency management$391K · 1.3%
- Tax assessor$362K · 1.2%
- Tax collection$307K · 1.0%
- Register of Deeds$272K · 0.9%
- Governing body (commissioners)$263K · 0.9%
- County administration building debt$260K · 0.8%
- Non-profit & community organizations$249K · 0.8%
- Land records$236K · 0.8%
- Building inspection$231K · 0.8%
- Board of Elections$230K · 0.8%
- Economic development$216K · 0.7%
- Cooperative Extension$184K · 0.6%
- Animal control$165K · 0.5%
- Soil conservation$147K · 0.5%
- Central services (phones & general)$143K · 0.5%
- Court facilities$126K · 0.4%
- Library$122K · 0.4%
- Veterans service$89K · 0.3%
- County attorney$87K · 0.3%
- Mental health$86K · 0.3%
- Refunds$74K · 0.2%
- Fines & forfeitures (to schools)$72K · 0.2%
- Medical examiner$15K · 0.0%
Other county funds (FY26 adopted)
These are budgeted separately from the General Fund.
- Solid waste$1.70M · 42.0%
- Southern rural water$1.47M · 36.4%
- Northern rural water$612K · 15.1%
- Rural fire districts$156K · 3.9%
- Emergency telephone system (E911)$75K · 1.9%
- Tunis sewer district$32K · 0.8%
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Source: Hertford County FY2025-26 Budget Ordinance, restated (PDF). Figures are rounded to the dollar. Questions? Call Finance at (252) 358-7804.