Colorado · County property tax · ACS 2024
Cheyenne County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Cheyenne County pays $887 a year, an effective rate of 0.47%, far below the U.S. average.
- $887
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.47%
- Effective rate · Low rate
- -55%
- vs U.S. average
- #15 of 64
- rank in CO
The verdict
Homeowners in Cheyenne County pay a median $887 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.47%, more affordable than 87% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $887
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.47%
- Effective rate on median home
- #418 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -55%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($187,500). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Colorado. Population: 1,741. Owner-occupied homes: 570.
The median annual property tax in Cheyenne County is $887, which is 66% lower than the Colorado state average and 55% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.47% on a median home value of $187,500. Property taxes represent 1.3% of the median household income in this county.
Cheyenne County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Cheyenne County's 0.47% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 87%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Cheyenne County pay a median annual property tax of $887, far below the national median and far below the Colorado state median. On a $187,500 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.47% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Cheyenne County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.3% of the $70,865 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Low among Colorado counties by effective rate
Cheyenne County ranks #15 of 64 counties in Colorado by effective rate (77% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Cheyenne 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.
A falling rate took the edge off
Cheyenne County's effective rate fell 13.5% across the 4-year span while its median home value rose 32.3%, leaving the median bill 14.5% higher at $887. That rate move is larger than the one in 57% 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
Bills rose across 2020-2024, from $775 to $887, a gain of 14%. This is a comparison of published ACS medians, not an explanation of a particular property's assessment or tax bill.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 255 of 570 owner-occupied homes (44.7%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Incomes run above the national midpoint and the rate is in the lowest quarter, leaving the median bill at 1.3% of median household income. Both figures move in the same direction here, so the ratio above is not pulled in two directions the way it is in most counties.
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.
What Cheyenne County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Cheyenne County homeowners, 255 of 570 owner-occupied homes (44.7%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 44.7% (255)
- $800 to $1,499 32.8% (187)
- $1,500 to $1,999 8.6% (49)
- $2,000 to $2,999 6.5% (37)
- $3,000 or more 4.7% (27)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
15 homes here (2.6%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Colorado handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Cheyenne County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+133%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Cheyenne County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Cheyenne County's effective rate is higher than 77% of the 64 counties in Colorado - ranking #15 of 64.
Where Cheyenne County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.47% Among the most affordable more affordable than 87% of 3,135 U.S. counties
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Same rate as Colorado, a smaller bill
The effective rate here sits within 2% of the Colorado median, yet the median bill runs 66% below it. When the rate matches and the cheque does not, the difference is in what is being taxed, not how heavily: the same percentage applied to cheaper housing produces $887 here. That is why comparing counties on rate alone can invert the answer a homeowner actually cares about.
Cheyenne County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Cheyenne County | Colorado Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Low rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Very light income burden | 1.3% | - | - |
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.
Cheyenne County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Colorado counties.
Cheyenne County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $887 +2.8% | 0.47% |
| 2023 | $863 +16.2% | 0.46% |
| 2022 | $743 -7.5% | 0.45% |
| 2021 | $803 +3.6% | 0.51% |
| 2020 | $775 | 0.55% |
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.
Cheyenne County: tax takes only 1.3% of income
Counties near Cheyenne County's effective rate
On effective rate, Cheyenne County sits nearest St. Francis County (AR), Marion County (AR), Lawrence County (AR).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Lafayette County (FL), Grant Parish (LA), Reno 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
IRS county file: no disclosed Cheyenne County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Cheyenne County. 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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Cheyenne County rate FAQs
- How does Cheyenne County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Cheyenne County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.47% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the tax affordability score for Cheyenne County?
- Cheyenne County, Colorado scores B+ (75/100) 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 A+ (1.3%). 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 is the average property tax in Cheyenne County, Colorado?
- The median annual property tax in Cheyenne County is $887, an effective rate of 0.47% on a $187,500 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Cheyenne County?
- Property taxes in Cheyenne County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.3% of the $70,865 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Cheyenne County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Cheyenne County climbed 14.5% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $775 to $887, 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 Cheyenne County's QUIET rate
Cheyenne County's $887 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 1.3% of Cheyenne County's $70,865 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Cheyenne County's QUIET 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: 0.47%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $887/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Cheyenne County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Cheyenne County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Linn County, MO
ABS(median_tax) peer · $888/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.72% vs Cheyenne County 0.47%.
Mobile County, AL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $888/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.47% vs Cheyenne County 0.47%.
Johnson County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $889/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.94% vs Cheyenne County 0.47%.
Mora County, NM
ABS(median_tax) peer · $885/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.72% vs Cheyenne County 0.47%.
Colorado county set
State ACS overview for every published Colorado county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Cheyenne County stamps QUIET · 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 Cheyenne County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.