The typical property tax improve for owners over the previous 5 years was 18 %, based on analysis by Home Technique, an organization that researches dwelling service suppliers. The vast majority of U.S. counties (93 %) had a rise in property tax payments, with 11 counties seeing a property tax invoice greater than double over the previous 5 years.
Almost 10 % of counties noticed a median tax invoice go up by $500 or extra, and 5 % had a rise of 40 % or extra.
Eight jurisdictions tied as the most costly with median property tax payments of no less than $10,000, which is the very best quantity that the Census Bureau tracks, based on Home Technique.
Most of these counties are in New York (Nassau, Rockland, New York and Westchester counties), or New Jersey (Bergen, Essex and Union counties), with the eighth within the metropolis of Falls Church, Va.
Areas of the nation with the very best property tax payments are within the Northeast and within the Bay Space in Northern California. Eighteen of the highest 20 most costly jurisdictions are in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, with Marin County in California and Falls Church, Va., rounding out the checklist.
Areas with the least costly property taxes are within the South and Midwest, with Louisiana and Alabama having 13 of the 20 counties with the bottom property tax payments. The 5 counties with the bottom median property tax payments, at simply $199 per yr, embody Choctaw County, Ala.; Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska; and three jurisdictions in Louisiana: Avoyelles Parish, East Carroll Parish and Madison Parish.
The median tax invoice greater than doubled over the previous 5 years in 11 counties, a lot of them in Texas.
- Terrell County, Tex. (up 167 %)
- Grant Parish, La. (125 %)
- Upton County, Tex. (121 %)
- Borden County, Tex. (121 %)
- Petroleum County, Mont. (115 %)
- Zavala County, Tex. (111 %)
- Kent County, Tex. (110 %)
- McMullen County, Tex. (108 %)
- Webster County, Ga. (104 %)
- Garfield County, Mont. (104 %)
- Stevens County, Kan. (101 %)
For the total report, which is searchable by county, go to housemethod.com/weblog/property-taxes-by-county.