An independent property-tax data project
What are the property taxes where you're buying?
Pick a county and enter a home value for the estimated annual property tax — plus the county's median taxes, effective rate, and how it ranks. Every figure traces to public U.S. Census Bureau data.
How it works
- Pick a county. Every U.S. county-equivalent has its own independently-estimated medians — no two pages share a number.
- Enter a home value. The estimator multiplies it by the county's effective rate (median taxes ÷ median home value) for a median-based annual estimate.
- See the full picture. Each state page carries every one of its counties — median taxes with margins of error, state and national rank, tax as a share of income, the five-year change and a nearby-county comparison — alongside that state's own assessment, exemption, appeal and payment rules.
Explore
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Rankings
The U.S. counties with the highest and lowest effective property-tax rates — from 3.563% down to 0.068% — nationally and by state.
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Methodology & sources
Exactly which Census tables power the numbers, what the margins of error mean, and why the effective rate is a ratio of two medians — not a millage rate.
Browse by state
The national median effective property-tax rate is 0.937% — but it ranges from New Jersey at 2.110% down to Hawaii at 0.267%. Pick a state for its statewide figures and a sortable table of every county.
- Alabama 0.375%
- Alaska 1.105%
- Arizona 0.476%
- Arkansas 0.553%
- California 0.697%
- Colorado 0.482%
- Connecticut 1.811%
- Delaware 0.502%
- District of Columbia 0.585%
- Florida 0.760%
- Georgia 0.772%
- Hawaii 0.267%
- Idaho 0.487%
- Illinois 2.012%
- Indiana 0.740%
- Iowa 1.393%
- Kansas 1.288%
- Kentucky 0.751%
- Louisiana 0.545%
- Maine 1.024%
- Maryland 0.975%
- Massachusetts 1.066%
- Michigan 1.254%
- Minnesota 1.019%
- Mississippi 0.716%
- Missouri 0.846%
- Montana 0.717%
- Nebraska 1.487%
- Nevada 0.466%
- New Hampshire 1.656%
- New Jersey 2.110%
- New Mexico 0.698%
- New York 1.553%
- North Carolina 0.656%
- North Dakota 0.988%
- Ohio 1.314%
- Oklahoma 0.800%
- Oregon 0.812%
- Pennsylvania 1.301%
- Rhode Island 1.212%
- South Carolina 0.483%
- South Dakota 1.058%
- Tennessee 0.503%
- Texas 1.491%
- Utah 0.516%
- Vermont 1.592%
- Virginia 0.727%
- Washington 0.807%
- West Virginia 0.532%
- Wisconsin 1.423%
- Wyoming 0.571%
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 5-year estimates — tables B25103 (real-estate taxes), B25077 (home value), B19013 (household income) — and the 2024 Census county gazetteer. Public domain (Title 17 U.S.C. §105).
What this site is
PropertyTaxAtlas is a free, no-signup property-tax reference built on U.S. Census Bureau data. Enter a home value and pick a county to estimate the annual property tax, or open any county for its median real-estate taxes (with margins of error), effective tax rate, state and national rank, tax as a share of income, and a nearby-county comparison. Every figure traces to the American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 5-year estimates and is a ratio of two independently-estimated medians, not a statutory (millage) rate where an effective rate is shown. It covers all 3,144 U.S. county-equivalents, with 300 counties published in depth at launch.
PropertyTaxAtlas is an independent data project. Every number behind the estimator comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2020–2024 5-year estimates) — public domain — and the method behind each figure is documented, so you can check it yourself. It exists because per-county property-tax information online is often shallow or simply wrong. Read more on the methodology page.