North Dakota · County property tax · ACS 2024
Bowman County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Bowman County pays $1,199 a year, an effective rate of 0.73%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,199
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.73%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -40%
- vs U.S. average
- #38 of 53
- rank in ND
The verdict
Homeowners in Bowman County pay a median $1,199 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.73%, more affordable than 56% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,199
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.73%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1364 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -40%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($164,900). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for North Dakota. Population: 2,906. Owner-occupied homes: 1,075.
The median annual property tax in Bowman County is $1,199, which is 51% lower than the North Dakota state average and 40% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.73% on a median home value of $164,900. Property taxes represent 1.7% of the median household income in this county.
Bowman County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Bowman County's 0.73% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 56%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Bowman County pay a median annual property tax of $1,199, well below the national median and far below the North Dakota state median. On a $164,900 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.73% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Bowman County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.7% of the $72,109 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of North Dakota counties by effective rate
Bowman County ranks #38 of 53 counties in North Dakota by effective rate (28% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Bowman County as reported to the Census Bureau; your parcel can differ. Not tax, legal, or financial advice: check the county assessor or a qualified professional before decisions that depend on these numbers.
Most of the market's rise reached the bill
The effective rate here moved 8.6% down between 2020 and 2024, a smaller shift than in 66% of U.S. counties. With the median home value rose 6.9%, the median bill fell 2.3% to $1,199: the rate did comparatively little to offset the market.
Effective rate is the published median bill divided by the published median home value, so the two multiply back to the bill exactly; the rate's movement here is derived from those two figures rather than read from the rounded published rate. Both are ACS 5-year survey estimates for the median owner-occupied household, compared across non-overlapping releases. They describe what the Census published, not a local policy, assessment, or exemption change.
How to read this county's bill
This is one of the counties where the typical bill came down, from $1,227 in 2020 to $1,199 in 2024, a fall of 2%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 318 of 1,075 owner-occupied homes (29.6%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Above-median earnings meet a slightly-below-median rate, and the median bill amounts to 1.7% of median household income. That is the comfortable middle of this dataset, and comfortable middles are easy to overlook when only rankings get published.
The share above is the median annual bill divided by median household income, a ratio of two county-level medians rather than a household-by-household figure.
The published bill went DOWN here
Between the 2020 and 2024 ACS releases the median annual property tax in Bowman County fell from $1,227 to $1,199, a change of -2.3%. Fewer than three counties in a hundred recorded any decline over this period; nearly everywhere else the published figure rose. A fall can reflect reassessment, a shifting mix of the homes surveyed, or genuine rate relief, and these estimates cannot separate those causes.
What Bowman County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Bowman County homeowners, 318 of 1,075 owner-occupied homes (29.6%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 29.6% (318)
- $800 to $1,499 26.3% (283)
- $1,500 to $1,999 11.6% (125)
- $2,000 to $2,999 10.9% (117)
- $3,000 or more 9.3% (100)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
132 homes here (12.3%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how North Dakota handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
In Bowman County, mortgaged homeowners pay 15% more than those without a mortgage, a gap that typically tracks higher home values rather than a different tax rate.
Bowman County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Bowman County's effective rate is higher than 28% of the 53 counties in North Dakota - ranking #38 of 53.
Where Bowman County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.73% more affordable than 56% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Below North Dakota on both measures
Bowman County's effective rate runs 26% under the North Dakota median and its bill 51% under. Both sitting on the same side means the gap is not a valuation artefact: a county can post a low rate purely because its homes are expensive, but then the bill rises to meet the state. Here it does not, so the $1,199 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the North Dakota norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Bowman County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Bowman County | North Dakota Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.7% | - | - |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates. Tax-burden differences across rows reflect millage decisions, assessment-ratio practices, and the residential-vs-commercial mix of each tax base.
Bowman County is UNDER · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · North Dakota counties.
Bowman County rate trail · UNDER
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,199 -9.8% | 0.73% |
| 2023 | $1,330 -5.6% | 0.75% |
| 2022 | $1,409 +9.2% | 0.84% |
| 2021 | $1,290 +5.1% | 0.83% |
| 2020 | $1,227 | 0.80% |
Each row is a separate ACS 5-year release, and consecutive releases share four of their five survey years. The percentage beside each bill is therefore movement in the published estimate against the previous release, not a single year's tax change. The two releases largely describe the same households. For change over time, compare releases that do not overlap.
Bowman County: tax takes only 1.7% of income
Counties near Bowman County's effective rate
On effective rate, Bowman County sits nearest Cabarrus County (NC), Sandoval County (NM), Ralls County (MO).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Petroleum County (MT), Faulk County (SD), Kiowa County (KS).
How peers are chosen
These are the nearest cross-state matches in the published Census data, not neighboring counties or recommendations. Peers are rebuilt with each data release; see the calculation method.
Similar effective rates
Similar published median-tax changes, 2020–2024
Bowman County: only 2% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 30 of 1,490 returns from Bowman County reported real estate taxes, averaging $3,000 - 100% of those reporters sat in the $100-200k AGI band.
What this IRS county file does not say
Amounts are reported before the SALT cap, not deducted; the share is of filers, not homeowners. Source: IRS SOI county data, tax year 2022.
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Bowman County rate FAQs
- How does Bowman County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Bowman County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.73% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Bowman County, North Dakota?
- The median annual property tax in Bowman County is $1,199, an effective rate of 0.73% on a $164,900 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Bowman County?
- Bowman County, North Dakota scores B- (69/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 5 Census ACS dimensions (effective rate, bill size, income share, mortgage gap, and home-value/income). Its strongest scored dimension here is income room at B+ (1.7%). The score compares published county medians to U.S. percentiles, it is not a personal bill and not advice to buy, sell, appeal, or relocate.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Bowman County?
- Property taxes in Bowman County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.7% of the $72,109 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Bowman County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Bowman County eased 2.3% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,227 to $1,199, a 4-year span. These are survey estimates covering five years each, so this compares the two releases furthest apart rather than consecutive ones, which overlap and would mostly measure the same households twice.
What to do with Bowman County's UNDER rate
Bowman County's $1,199 median bill sits well below the U.S. median - still size a parcel estimate; local millage and exemptions move the real bill. Estimate your bill →
Income burden is light here: about 1.7% of Bowman County's $72,109 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Bowman County's UNDER effective rate, then a disjoint out-of-state bill set so the two neighborhoods stay distinct.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.73%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,199/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Bowman County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Bowman County (UNDER · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER LIGHT
Big Horn County, WY
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,198/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.55% vs Bowman County 0.73%.
Levy County, FL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,201/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.63% vs Bowman County 0.73%.
Yazoo County, MS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,197/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.78% vs Bowman County 0.73%.
Franklin County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,196/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.50% vs Bowman County 0.73%.
North Dakota county set
State ACS overview for every published North Dakota county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Bowman County stamps UNDER · LIGHT - how assessed value and millage become the ACS median bill.
Data vintage and method
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
Property tax data reflects median amounts paid by homeowners. Effective rates are calculated as median tax divided by median home value.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, county median real-estate taxes · 2024 Bowman County (UNDER · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.