US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Property Transfer

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from property transfer, from highest to lowest. First are Delaware (4.91), Florida (3.9) and District of Columbia (3.31). The middle one of the 51 has 0.237.

What this measures

The percentage from taxes charged when a property deed or a stock changes hands, not on owning either. It rises with how often property is sold as much as with the tax rate. So Florida and Washington are near the top, alongside Delaware and DC. Source: Census government finances.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	% of all taxes
1	Delaware	4.91
2	Florida	3.9
3	District of Columbia	3.31
4	Washington	3.28
5	New Hampshire	2.42
6	New York	2.23
7	Pennsylvania	2.08
8	Vermont	1.97
9	Maryland	1.74
10	Virginia	1.17
11	Tennessee	1.15
12	New Jersey	1.02
13	Connecticut	0.949
14	South Carolina	0.866
15	Michigan	0.771
16	Massachusetts	0.666
17	Hawaii	0.661
18	Minnesota	0.596
19	Nevada	0.581
20	Maine	0.536
21	Arkansas	0.454
22	North Carolina	0.358
23	California	0.352
24	Wisconsin	0.341
25	Illinois	0.328
26	Alabama	0.237
27	Rhode Island	0.234
28	Nebraska	0.192
29	Oklahoma	0.153
30	Iowa	0.146
31	West Virginia	0.145
32	Colorado	0.135
33	Kentucky	0.115
34	Missouri	0.0555
35	Ohio	0.0398
36	Oregon	0.0259
37	Louisiana	0.0146
38	South Dakota	0.00476
39	Indiana	0.000683
40	Kansas	0.000468
41	Arizona	0.000277
42	Georgia	0
43	Idaho	0
44	Mississippi	0
45	Montana	0
46	New Mexico	0
47	North Dakota	0
48	Texas	0
49	Utah	0
50	Wyoming	0
51	Alaska	0

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