Alaska · County property tax · ACS 2024
Bristol Bay Borough Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Bristol Bay Borough pays $2,045 a year, an effective rate of 0.83%, modestly above the U.S. average.
- $2,045
- Median tax / yr · Above-median bill
- 0.83%
- Effective rate · Above-median rate
- +3%
- vs U.S. average
- #13 of 28
- rank in AK
The verdict
Homeowners in Bristol Bay Borough pay a median $2,045 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.83%, more affordable than 48% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $2,045
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.83%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1639 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- +3%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($245,800). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Alaska. Population: 918. Owner-occupied homes: 156.
The median annual property tax in Bristol Bay Borough is $2,045, which is 48% lower than the Alaska state average and 3% above the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.83% on a median home value of $245,800. Property taxes represent 2.1% of the median household income in this county.
Bristol Bay Borough's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Bristol Bay Borough's 0.83% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 48%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits below the Alaska median
Homeowners in Bristol Bay Borough pay a median annual property tax of $2,045, modestly above the national median and well below the Alaska state median. On a $245,800 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.83% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Bristol Bay Borough run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $95,625 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Alaska counties by effective rate
Bristol Bay Borough ranks #13 of 28 counties in Alaska by effective rate (54% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Bristol Bay Borough 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.
A falling rate took the edge off
Bristol Bay Borough's effective rate fell 13.8% across the 4-year span while its median home value rose 10.6%, leaving the median bill 4.7% lower at $2,045. That rate move is larger than the one in 58% of counties, so a good deal of the market's rise never reached the bill.
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 $2,145 in 2020 to $2,045 in 2024, a fall of 5%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The largest single group of owner-occupied homes in this county reports no real estate tax at all: 77 of 156 homes (49.4%). When that group leads, the county median does not describe the most common reported amount.
Earnings are in the national top quarter and the rate is above the midpoint, so the median bill represents 2.1% of median household income. A headline bill conflates the dollar figure with the proportion; the two come apart here, and the ratio above is the second of them.
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 Bristol Bay Borough fell from $2,145 to $2,045, a change of -4.7%. 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 Bristol Bay Borough Homeowners Actually Pay
Most Bristol Bay Borough homeowners are not billed at all: 77 of 156 owner-occupied homes (49.4%) report no real estate tax. A median bill describes only the minority who pay one.
- Less than $800 4.5% (7)
- $800 to $1,499 13.5% (21)
- $1,500 to $1,999 7.1% (11)
- $2,000 to $2,999 7.1% (11)
- $3,000 or more 18.6% (29)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
77 homes here (49.4%) report no real estate tax at all, an unusually large share, high enough that the median bill above describes a minority of Bristol Bay Borough homeowners. Exemptions are set by state: how Alaska handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Bristol Bay Borough pay more than double the bill of those without one (+100%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Bristol Bay Borough's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Bristol Bay Borough's effective rate is higher than 54% of the 28 counties in Alaska - ranking #13 of 28.
Where Bristol Bay Borough sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.83% more affordable than 48% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Below Alaska on both measures
Bristol Bay Borough's effective rate runs 25% under the Alaska median and its bill 48% 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 $2,045 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the Alaska norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Bristol Bay Borough vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Bristol Bay Borough | Alaska Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Above-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Above-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.1% | - | - |
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.
Bristol Bay Borough is UNDER · MID on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Alaska counties.
Bristol Bay Borough rate trail · UNDER
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2,045 +5.8% | 0.83% |
| 2023 | $1,933 -22.7% | 0.72% |
| 2022 | $2,500 +12.9% | 0.99% |
| 2021 | $2,214 +3.2% | 0.95% |
| 2020 | $2,145 | 0.97% |
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.
Bristol Bay Borough: tax-to-income at 2.1%
Counties near Bristol Bay Borough's effective rate
On effective rate, Bristol Bay Borough sits nearest Contra Costa County (CA), DeSoto County (FL), Madison County (FL).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Thomas County (NE), Mathews County (VA), Hickman County (KY).
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
IRS county file: no disclosed Bristol Bay Borough Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Bristol Bay Borough. That is a limit of the published data rather than a finding about the county: county-level figures are withheld where the counts are too small to disclose safely, which is common in places with few filers. Roughly one county in sixteen is in this position, so the filer view available elsewhere on this site is simply not available here. Source: IRS Statistics of Income county data.
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Bristol Bay Borough rate FAQs
- How does Bristol Bay Borough property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Bristol Bay Borough run modestly above the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.83% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska?
- The median annual property tax in Bristol Bay Borough is $2,045, an effective rate of 0.83% on a $245,800 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Bristol Bay Borough?
- Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska scores D (44/100) 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 housing pressure at B- (2.57×). 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 Bristol Bay Borough?
- Property taxes in Bristol Bay Borough run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $95,625 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Bristol Bay Borough?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Bristol Bay Borough eased 4.7% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $2,145 to $2,045, 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 Bristol Bay Borough's UNDER rate
Inside Alaska, Bristol Bay Borough's $2,045 median bill runs low versus the state median - check peer counties before assuming the lowest bill is the best move. Alaska overview →
Bristol Bay Borough ranks #13 of 28 Alaska counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Alaska overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Bristol Bay Borough'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: 0.83%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $2,045/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Bristol Bay Borough
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Bristol Bay Borough (UNDER · MID), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER MID
Bradford County, PA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,044/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.09% vs Bristol Bay Borough 0.83%.
Butler County, NE
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,044/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.11% vs Bristol Bay Borough 0.83%.
Clinton County, PA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,046/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.16% vs Bristol Bay Borough 0.83%.
Hancock County, OH
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,046/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.00% vs Bristol Bay Borough 0.83%.
Alaska county set
State ACS overview for every published Alaska county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Bristol Bay Borough stamps UNDER · MID - 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 Bristol Bay Borough (UNDER · MID) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.