Source figures · 2024
Property Tax Rates by State: What Homeowners Actually Pay
The median property tax bill on an owner-occupied home as a share of the median home value, for every state. Census Bureau survey figures, with the margin of error on each.
Source data last read . The American Community Survey publishes these once a year.
Highest state
1.92%
Illinois, 2024
Lowest state
0.27%
Hawaii, 2024
Middle state
0.77%
Median of the 50 states, 2024
Spread
7.1×
Illinois against Hawaii
All 50 states, highest to lowest
District of Columbia: 0.63%. Shown separately and left out of the ranking and the median, because a single city that also carries state-level functions is not comparable with a state.
Where each figure comes from
Each row is our division of two Census Bureau medians, both printed in the row with their 90% margins of error so you can redo it. Nothing here is estimated or filled in by us.
| State | Effective rate | Source figures |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 1.92% | $5,399 median real estate tax (±$43) ÷ $280,700 median home value (±$1,768) |
| New Jersey | 1.89% | $9,358 median real estate tax (±$53) ÷ $496,000 median home value (±$2,982) |
| Connecticut | 1.66% | $6,573 median real estate tax (±$47) ÷ $396,900 median home value (±$3,745) |
| New Hampshire | 1.46% | $6,707 median real estate tax (±$88) ÷ $458,800 median home value (±$6,138) |
| New York | 1.45% | $6,542 median real estate tax (±$47) ÷ $449,800 median home value (±$3,718) |
| Vermont | 1.43% | $5,026 median real estate tax (±$131) ÷ $352,800 median home value (±$7,277) |
| Nebraska | 1.42% | $3,739 median real estate tax (±$49) ÷ $263,100 median home value (±$3,117) |
| Texas | 1.31% | $4,108 median real estate tax (±$42) ÷ $313,200 median home value (±$1,780) |
| Iowa | 1.29% | $2,937 median real estate tax (±$34) ÷ $227,300 median home value (±$2,299) |
| Kansas | 1.25% | $2,983 median real estate tax (±$45) ÷ $238,700 median home value (±$2,937) |
| Wisconsin | 1.25% | $3,680 median real estate tax (±$23) ÷ $294,700 median home value (±$1,862) |
| Ohio | 1.23% | $2,937 median real estate tax (±$20) ÷ $239,800 median home value (±$1,395) |
| Michigan | 1.18% | $2,988 median real estate tax (±$19) ÷ $254,200 median home value (±$1,616) |
| Pennsylvania | 1.16% | $3,214 median real estate tax (±$26) ÷ $277,600 median home value (±$1,517) |
| Rhode Island | 1.07% | $4,886 median real estate tax (±$76) ÷ $455,700 median home value (±$6,647) |
| Alaska | 1.06% | $3,976 median real estate tax (±$149) ÷ $376,500 median home value (±$7,020) |
| Minnesota | 1.02% | $3,501 median real estate tax (±$24) ÷ $344,600 median home value (±$1,807) |
| South Dakota | 1.01% | $2,940 median real estate tax (±$67) ÷ $289,600 median home value (±$6,421) |
| Massachusetts | 1.00% | $6,080 median real estate tax (±$39) ÷ $607,400 median home value (±$3,979) |
| North Dakota | 0.96% | $2,550 median real estate tax (±$64) ÷ $266,100 median home value (±$5,332) |
| Maryland | 0.95% | $4,144 median real estate tax (±$40) ÷ $436,300 median home value (±$3,089) |
| Maine | 0.91% | $3,103 median real estate tax (±$56) ÷ $341,900 median home value (±$4,987) |
| Missouri | 0.79% | $2,021 median real estate tax (±$29) ÷ $254,400 median home value (±$2,059) |
| Washington | 0.79% | $4,729 median real estate tax (±$41) ÷ $602,200 median home value (±$3,897) |
| Oregon | 0.78% | $3,895 median real estate tax (±$40) ÷ $497,500 median home value (±$3,618) |
| Florida | 0.75% | $2,993 median real estate tax (±$20) ÷ $396,900 median home value (±$1,617) |
| Oklahoma | 0.75% | $1,672 median real estate tax (±$24) ÷ $222,100 median home value (±$2,147) |
| Georgia | 0.74% | $2,554 median real estate tax (±$26) ÷ $343,300 median home value (±$2,287) |
| Indiana | 0.74% | $1,798 median real estate tax (±$19) ÷ $243,500 median home value (±$1,916) |
| Kentucky | 0.71% | $1,611 median real estate tax (±$26) ÷ $226,000 median home value (±$2,611) |
| Virginia | 0.71% | $2,872 median real estate tax (±$25) ÷ $403,500 median home value (±$3,411) |
| California | 0.71% | $5,369 median real estate tax (±$34) ÷ $759,500 median home value (±$3,644) |
| Montana | 0.69% | $2,939 median real estate tax (±$57) ÷ $425,400 median home value (±$10,246) |
| Mississippi | 0.66% | $1,221 median real estate tax (±$29) ÷ $186,500 median home value (±$3,787) |
| New Mexico | 0.64% | $1,776 median real estate tax (±$45) ÷ $279,900 median home value (±$4,338) |
| North Carolina | 0.61% | $2,044 median real estate tax (±$20) ÷ $333,000 median home value (±$1,908) |
| Wyoming | 0.57% | $1,947 median real estate tax (±$50) ÷ $339,500 median home value (±$8,452) |
| Louisiana | 0.53% | $1,187 median real estate tax (±$31) ÷ $223,200 median home value (±$2,575) |
| Arkansas | 0.52% | $1,113 median real estate tax (±$21) ÷ $215,600 median home value (±$3,253) |
| West Virginia | 0.52% | $881 median real estate tax (±$19) ÷ $170,800 median home value (±$2,594) |
| Colorado | 0.49% | $2,828 median real estate tax (±$25) ÷ $574,600 median home value (±$3,773) |
| Utah | 0.49% | $2,648 median real estate tax (±$22) ÷ $545,200 median home value (±$6,188) |
| Delaware | 0.47% | $1,750 median real estate tax (±$40) ÷ $371,600 median home value (±$4,972) |
| Nevada | 0.47% | $2,143 median real estate tax (±$48) ÷ $455,500 median home value (±$3,836) |
| Tennessee | 0.45% | $1,488 median real estate tax (±$17) ÷ $332,600 median home value (±$2,448) |
| South Carolina | 0.45% | $1,337 median real estate tax (±$15) ÷ $299,500 median home value (±$3,303) |
| Arizona | 0.43% | $1,828 median real estate tax (±$17) ÷ $426,000 median home value (±$2,728) |
| Idaho | 0.43% | $1,912 median real estate tax (±$27) ÷ $446,400 median home value (±$5,301) |
| Alabama | 0.38% | $890 median real estate tax (±$17) ÷ $233,300 median home value (±$2,461) |
| Hawaii | 0.27% | $2,385 median real estate tax (±$58) ÷ $875,900 median home value (±$14,013) |
| District of Columbia | 0.63% | $4,594 median real estate tax (±$245) ÷ $733,400 median home value (±$25,632) |
How this relates to the freedom index
This is one of the individual policy variables the state index is being rebuilt onto, in the Economic Freedom category. In the published catalog a lower figure counts as freer, with this reasoning: The largest recurring tax for most homeowners and the one least avoidable by changing behavior.
It is not part of any state’s score yet. Today’s scores still come from published third-party indices, and this page shows the source figure on its own. The full variable list, with every weight, is on the data page.
Sources and methods
Every figure on this page comes from one of the datasets below and nowhere else. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or carried over from a previous edition. Where two sources measure something similar, they are reported separately rather than combined, because they are not measuring the same thing.
American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, 2024: table B25103 (median real estate taxes paid) and table B25077 (median value, owner-occupied units)
US Census Bureau
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- Calendar 2024, 50 states and DC
- Last read
- October 11, 2026
A sample survey of about 3.5 million addresses a year. Each estimate is published with a 90% margin of error, printed beside it below. The Census API link needs a free key from api.census.gov to open; the publisher’s page shows the same table without one.
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