Property tax rate by county and city
What do homeowners near you pay in property tax?
Pick a state, then a county or city. You get the median property tax bill, the median home value and the one divided by the other, with the margin of error on each, from the Census Bureau’s ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Every county has a page; cities do when the sample is big enough.
A real page, in one line
Travis County, Texas (Austin):
$7,727 median taxes paid ÷ $523,000 median home value = 1.48% ± 0.03%
The Travis County page prints the margins behind each figure, Texas and the US beside it, and the link to the county’s home price page.
Informational only, not tax advice and not your bill. The pages divide two medians; no home pays exactly the result.
Counties and cities by state
| State | Statewide rate | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 0.38% | Counties · Cities |
| Alaska | 1.11% | Counties · Cities |
| Arizona | 0.48% | Counties · Cities |
| Arkansas | 0.55% | Counties · Cities |
| California | 0.70% | Counties · Cities |
| Colorado | 0.48% | Counties · Cities |
| Connecticut | 1.81% | Counties · Cities |
| Delaware | 0.50% | Counties · Cities |
| District of Columbia | 0.58% | Counties · Cities |
| Florida | 0.76% | Counties · Cities |
| Georgia | 0.77% | Counties · Cities |
| Hawaii | 0.27% | Counties · Cities |
| Idaho | 0.49% | Counties · Cities |
| Illinois | 2.01% | Counties · Cities |
| Indiana | 0.74% | Counties · Cities |
| Iowa | 1.39% | Counties · Cities |
| Kansas | 1.29% | Counties · Cities |
| Kentucky | 0.75% | Counties · Cities |
| Louisiana | 0.55% | Counties · Cities |
| Maine | 1.02% | Counties · Cities |
| Maryland | 0.97% | Counties · Cities |
| Massachusetts | 1.07% | Counties · Cities |
| Michigan | 1.25% | Counties · Cities |
| Minnesota | 1.02% | Counties · Cities |
| Mississippi | 0.72% | Counties · Cities |
| Missouri | 0.85% | Counties · Cities |
| Montana | 0.72% | Counties · Cities |
| Nebraska | 1.49% | Counties · Cities |
| Nevada | 0.47% | Counties · Cities |
| New Hampshire | 1.66% | Counties · Cities |
| New Jersey | 2.11% | Counties · Cities |
| New Mexico | 0.70% | Counties · Cities |
| New York | 1.55% | Counties · Cities |
| North Carolina | 0.66% | Counties · Cities |
| North Dakota | 0.99% | Counties · Cities |
| Ohio | 1.31% | Counties · Cities |
| Oklahoma | 0.80% | Counties · Cities |
| Oregon | 0.81% | Counties · Cities |
| Pennsylvania | 1.30% | Counties · Cities |
| Puerto Rico | 0.49% | Counties · Cities |
| Rhode Island | 1.21% | Counties · Cities |
| South Carolina | 0.48% | Counties · Cities |
| South Dakota | 1.06% | Counties · Cities |
| Tennessee | 0.50% | Counties · Cities |
| Texas | 1.49% | Counties · Cities |
| Utah | 0.52% | Counties · Cities |
| Vermont | 1.59% | Counties · Cities |
| Virginia | 0.73% | Counties · Cities |
| Washington | 0.81% | Counties · Cities |
| West Virginia | 0.53% | Counties · Cities |
| Wisconsin | 1.42% | Counties · Cities |
| Wyoming | 0.57% | Counties · Cities |
States are alphabetical and the statewide rate is the same division on the state’s own medians; it is not an average of its counties.
Methodology
The formula. Effective rate = median real estate taxes paid ÷ median owner-occupied home value × 100. Both medians come from the same Census survey window for the same area: table B25103 for taxes paid and table B25077 for value, owner-occupied housing units only. The margin on the rate is the Census ratio formula, √(margin of taxes² + rate² × margin of value²) ÷ median value, at the 90% level the ACS publishes.
Which pages exist. Every county whose two medians are present and not top-coded (3,190 of them; 499 carry a wide-margin caution). Cities, towns, villages and census-designated places only when the rate’s margin is at most 20% of the rate: 10,414 places. The threshold is printed on each page. Medians the Census top-codes ($10,000+ in taxes, $2,000,000+ in value) have no exact value, so those areas have no page.
Snapshot, not a live feed. The tables are read from the ACS 5-year summary file (public domain, no API) and committed to this site; this pull is from 2026-10-08. The Census releases the next 5-year file each December, January when a release slips, and the site’s refresh picks it up on its next scheduled run. Each page also links to the same county’s home price page, which carries the FHFA index the rest of this site runs on; the two sources are kept separate and each page names its own.
What this rate cannot know
- Your bill. Assessment ratios, exemptions, caps and the millage of your own districts are not in a median. The guide works through each.
- Any single year. Five-year estimates pool 2020 to 2024; a reassessment or a rate change in the last of those years is diluted.
- Small places. Where the sample is thin the margin is wide, which is why small cities have no page and small counties carry a caution.
- Renters and second homes. Both tables cover owner-occupied units only.
Last reviewed: October 2026. Data: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates, pulled 2026-10-08.
Frequently asked questions
What is an effective property tax rate?
The typical annual property tax bill divided by the typical home value in an area, as a percentage. Here it is the Census median real estate taxes paid divided by the median owner-occupied home value from the same survey. It is one number for the whole county or city, after exemptions, not any one household's rate.
Why is my bill different from this rate times my home's value?
Because your bill is set by your assessor and your taxing districts, not by a median. Many states assess at a fraction of market value, exemptions reduce the taxable amount, caps hold long-time owners' assessments below the market, and the millage differs by school district and city inside one county. The guide linked on every page works through each of these.
Why are some cities missing?
A city page is published only when the rate's margin of error, from the Census ratio formula, is at most 20% of the rate. Below that line the sample is too small for the number to mean much. Counties are always published, with a visible caution when they exceed the same line, because a county page pairs with the county's home price page.
Why is there no list of the highest and lowest tax counties?
Because the margins of error overlap too often for an order to hold. Two counties a tenth of a point apart can swap places in the next release without anything changing on the ground. Each page prints its own margin and the state and US figures beside it; that is as far as the data honestly goes.
Guides
- Why Your Property Tax Bill Differs From the Effective RateThe county rate is one median bill over one median value. Assessment ratios, exemptions, caps and district millage put your own bill somewhere else; here is how.
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