Rockingham County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption

Rockingham County applies the statewide exemption to the home and up to one acre for a veteran rated 100% permanent and total, or paid at 100% for unemployability. Its page still tells a surviving spouse to stay in the same home.

Also called: property tax, real estate tax, Rockingham property tax, 100% disabled, TDIU.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Rockingham County, VACounty

Rockingham County's Commissioner of the Revenue, in Harrisonburg, applies the statewide disabled-veteran real estate exemption to the dwelling and up to one acre. The page says veterans "will be eligible for the exemption if being paid at the 100% rate because they are unemployable due to their service-connected disabilities". The application needs the original VA letter showing a 100% service-connected, permanent, and total disability, and is refiled only if the principal residence changes. There is no income test. The page still says a surviving spouse qualifies only while the spouse "continues to occupy the real property". Section 58.1-3219.5(B) has let the spouse move without losing the exemption since 2019. The county code has no veteran provisions of its own, so Rockingham adds nothing to the statewide vehicle exemption.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Rockingham County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption
Gate	Rule
100% permanent and total	Rockingham County applies the statewide exemption to the home and up to one acre. It accepts payment at the 100% rate for unemployability. It does not add an income test. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Permanent and total on the 100% path	The 100% rating has to be permanent and total. A 100% rating VA has not made permanent does not meet this path.
Individual unemployability	The other path is a total disability rating based on individual unemployability that VA has also rated permanent and total.
Permanent and total on the unemployability path	Individual unemployability qualifies on this path only when VA has rated the disability permanent and total.

Sources

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Last updated 2026-09-30.

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