Florida · County property tax · ACS 2024
Broward County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Broward County pays $3,890 a year, an effective rate of 0.94%, far above the U.S. average.
- $3,890
- Median tax / yr · Highest-decile bill
- 0.94%
- Effective rate · Above-median rate
- +95%
- vs U.S. average
- #2 of 67
- rank in FL
The verdict
Homeowners in Broward County pay a median $3,890 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.94%, more affordable than 40% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $3,890
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.94%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1882 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- +95%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($414,600). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Florida. Population: 1,977,129. Owner-occupied homes: 479,343.
The median annual property tax in Broward County is $3,890, which is 42% higher than the Florida state average and 95% above the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.94% on a median home value of $414,600. Property taxes represent 5.0% of the median household income in this county.
Why Broward County's ACS bill runs high vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well above the national median
Homeowners in Broward County pay a median annual property tax of $3,890, far above the national median and well above the Florida state median. On a $414,600 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.94% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Low among Florida counties by effective rate
Broward County ranks #2 of 67 counties in Florida by effective rate (97% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 3
Income carries a heavy tax share
Property taxes in Broward County run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 5.0% of the $77,633 median household income.
Decision signal 4
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Broward County's 0.94% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 40%).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Broward 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 6.3% down between 2020 and 2024, a smaller shift than in 73% of U.S. counties. With the median home value rose 46.8%, the median bill rose 37.5% to $3,890: 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
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 38% from $2,829 to $3,890. These ACS medians describe the reported change; they do not identify whether a levy, assessment, home value, or change in the responding households caused it.
The heaviest band is also the fullest one here: 280,489 of 479,343 owner-occupied homes (58.5%) report annual real-estate taxes above $3,000. That band has no upper edge in the source, so the county median understates the burden carried by the plurality rather than describing it.
Earnings are in the national top quarter and the rate is above the midpoint, so the median bill represents 5.0% 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.
Broward County is an outlier inside Florida
Across the 67 Florida counties with a published rate, the average effective rate is 0.70%. Broward County is at 0.94%, which sits 2.0 standard deviations above that average. Fewer than one county in twenty nationally is this far from its own state's centre, so a state-level average is a poor guide to what is owed here.
Standard deviations are computed across every county in the state with a published effective rate for 2024; states with fewer than five such counties are not assessed.
What Broward County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Broward County homeowners, 280,489 of 479,343 owner-occupied homes (58.5%), pays $3,000 or more a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 7.0% (33,452)
- $800 to $1,499 10.6% (50,917)
- $1,500 to $1,999 7.2% (34,683)
- $2,000 to $2,999 12.3% (58,907)
- $3,000 or more 58.5% (280,489)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
20,895 homes here (4.4%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Florida handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Broward County pay a substantially higher bill, 47% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Broward County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Broward County's HEAVY ACS 2024 figure.
Broward County's median bill is 42% above the Florida median and 95% above the U.S. median.
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Broward County moved from $2,829 in the 2020 release to $3,890 in 2024, a change of about 38%. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates compared across releases that share only one sample year, which is why this page never compares consecutive releases: those overlap in four years of the same households and move mostly on sampling.
Broward County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Broward County | Florida Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Highest-decile bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Above-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Highest-decile income burden | 5.0% | - | - |
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.
Is Broward County's $3,890 median bill appeal-worthy?
At Broward County's $3,890 ACS median (HEAVY), a 10% assessment cut is worth about $389/yr before exemptions. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Florida.
Broward County bill trail · HEAVY
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,890 +7.8% | 0.94% |
| 2023 | $3,610 +9.2% | 0.95% |
| 2022 | $3,305 +9.9% | 0.95% |
| 2021 | $3,008 +6.3% | 1.00% |
| 2020 | $2,829 | 1.00% |
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.
Broward County: tax takes 5.0% of income
Counties near Broward County's median bill
On effective rate, Broward County sits nearest Appling County (GA), Johnson County (GA), Spalding County (GA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Adair County (IA), Elliott County (KY), Green 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
Broward County: only 8% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 84,410 of 1,018,410 returns from Broward County reported real estate taxes, averaging $9,621 - 32% of those reporters sat in the $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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Broward County bill FAQs
- How does Broward County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Broward County run far above the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.94% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Broward County?
- Property taxes in Broward County run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 5.0% of the $77,633 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Broward County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Broward County jumped 37.5% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $2,829 to $3,890, 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 is the average property tax in Broward County, Florida?
- The median annual property tax in Broward County is $3,890, an effective rate of 0.94% on a $414,600 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Broward County?
- Broward County, Florida scores F (15/100) 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 rate relief at D (0.94%). 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 to do with Broward County's HEAVY bill
Broward County's $3,890 median bill sits well above the U.S. median - size a personal estimate before treating the county headline as your budget. Estimate your bill →
Income burden is elevated here: about 5.0% of Broward County's $77,633 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Broward County's HEAVY median, then a disjoint out-of-state rate set, not the same-state geography lattice.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.94%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $3,890/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Broward County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Broward County (UNDER · HEAVY), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER HEAVY
Ogle County, IL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $3,889/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 2.06% vs Broward County 0.94%.
Calvert County, MD
ABS(median_tax) peer · $3,885/yr (near-tied bill ABS $5); rate 0.84% vs Broward County 0.94%.
Broome County, NY
ABS(median_tax) peer · $3,902/yr (near-tied bill ABS $12); rate 2.52% vs Broward County 0.94%.
Calumet County, WI
ABS(median_tax) peer · $3,877/yr (near-tied bill ABS $13); rate 1.41% vs Broward County 0.94%.
Florida county set
State ACS overview for every published Florida county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Broward County stamps UNDER · HEAVY - 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 Broward County (UNDER · HEAVY) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.