US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Property

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from property, from highest to lowest. First are New Hampshire (62.1), Texas (40.6) and New Jersey (39.5). The middle one of the 51 has 27.6.

What this measures

The percentage of a state's total tax money that comes from property tax. It runs from 62% in New Hampshire, which has no general sales tax and no broad income tax, to under 15% in states that rely on taxes on oil, gas and minerals or on sales. This shows how a state raises its money, not what any owner pays. For that, see the effective property tax rate, the one tax measure here available for each county. 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	New Hampshire	62.1
2	Texas	40.6
3	New Jersey	39.5
4	Vermont	39.2
5	Wyoming	38.1
6	Maine	35.8
7	Alaska	35.1
8	Nebraska	34.9
9	Florida	34.8
10	Connecticut	34.6
11	Montana	34.1
12	Rhode Island	33.7
13	Massachusetts	33.2
14	Michigan	33
15	Colorado	32.8
16	South Dakota	32.8
17	Iowa	32.4
18	Illinois	31.7
19	Virginia	30.8
20	Wisconsin	30.7
21	South Carolina	29.9
22	Georgia	29.8
23	District of Columbia	29.3
24	Kansas	28.1
25	Missouri	27.7
26	Ohio	27.6
27	New York	27.5
28	California	26.6
29	Oregon	26.4
30	Washington	26
31	Pennsylvania	25.6
32	Mississippi	25.4
33	Indiana	24.3
34	Minnesota	24.1
35	Maryland	23.7
36	Arizona	23.7
37	Utah	23
38	Idaho	22.3
39	North Carolina	22.2
40	Nevada	21.9
41	Tennessee	20.8
42	Kentucky	20
43	West Virginia	19.4
44	Oklahoma	18.4
45	Hawaii	18.2
46	Louisiana	18.1
47	Arkansas	16.9
48	North Dakota	16.3
49	Alabama	15.6
50	Delaware	14.1
51	New Mexico	13.6

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