US Counties With the Lowest Effective Property Tax Rates

3,124 US counties ranked by effective property tax rate, from lowest to highest. First are East Feliciana Parish, LA (0.153), Maui County, HI (0.168) and San Lorenzo Municipio, PR (0.199). The middle one of the 3,124 has 0.827.

What this measures

The middle property tax bill as a percentage of the middle home value. This is the usual 'effective rate': what a typical owner pays each year per dollar of home value. The middle county is 0.82%, ranging from under 0.2% in rural Alaska and Louisiana to over 3% in southern New Jersey and upstate New York. It is the one tax rate here that really varies from county to county, not only from state to state. Even so, much of the gap follows state lines: New Jersey and New York counties sit near 2.2%, and Hawaii and Alabama counties near 0.3%, almost whichever county you pick. Source: Census ACS 5-year.

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.

The 100 lowest counties

Every state, lowest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

More on effective property tax rate

• US Counties With the Highest Effective Property Tax Rates
• Effective property tax rate by US county: map by year and what it goes with

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.