New Mexico · County property tax · ACS 2024
Doña Ana County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Doña Ana County pays $1,480 a year, an effective rate of 0.67%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,480
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.67%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -26%
- vs U.S. average
- #8 of 33
- rank in NM
The verdict
Homeowners in Doña Ana County pay a median $1,480 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.67%, more affordable than 63% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,480
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.67%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1158 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -26%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($220,800). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for New Mexico. Population: 224,266. Owner-occupied homes: 55,574.
The median annual property tax in Doña Ana County is $1,480, which is 15% lower than the New Mexico state average and 26% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.67% on a median home value of $220,800. Property taxes represent 2.6% of the median household income in this county.
Doña Ana County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Doña Ana County's 0.67% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 63%).
Decision signal 2
Low among New Mexico counties by effective rate
Doña Ana County ranks #8 of 33 counties in New Mexico by effective rate (76% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 3
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Doña Ana County pay a median annual property tax of $1,480, well below the national median and notably lower than the New Mexico state median. On a $220,800 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.67% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Doña Ana County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.6% of the $56,848 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Doña Ana 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
Doña Ana County's effective rate fell 12.3% across the 4-year span while its median home value rose 43.8%, leaving the median bill 26.1% higher at $1,480. That rate move is larger than the one in 50% 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
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 26% from $1,174 to $1,480. 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 fullest band here is the $800 to $1,499 range, holding 13,903 of 55,574 owner-occupied homes (25.0%). The band shows where the largest share of reported owner-occupied households falls; it is not an individual-bill estimate.
Both figures cluster near the middle of the national range, and the median bill comes to 2.6% of median household income. Counties like this are the reason a national average exists at all, and also the reason it explains so little.
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 Doña Ana County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Doña Ana County homeowners, 13,903 of 55,574 owner-occupied homes (25.0%), pays $800 to $1,499 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 21.9% (12,186)
- $800 to $1,499 25.0% (13,903)
- $1,500 to $1,999 15.2% (8,461)
- $2,000 to $2,999 17.5% (9,745)
- $3,000 or more 12.8% (7,094)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
4,185 homes here (7.5%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how New Mexico handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Doña Ana County pay a substantially higher bill, 30% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Doña Ana County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Doña Ana County's effective rate is higher than 76% of the 33 counties in New Mexico - ranking #8 of 33.
Where Doña Ana County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.67% Among the most affordable more affordable than 63% of 3,135 U.S. counties
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Doña Ana County moved from $1,174 in the 2020 release to $1,480 in 2024, a change of about 26%. 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.
Doña Ana County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Doña Ana County | New Mexico Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Above-median income burden | 2.6% | - | - |
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.
Doña Ana County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · New Mexico counties.
Doña Ana County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,480 +5.4% | 0.67% |
| 2023 | $1,404 +4.0% | 0.68% |
| 2022 | $1,350 +6.5% | 0.72% |
| 2021 | $1,268 +8.0% | 0.78% |
| 2020 | $1,174 | 0.76% |
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.
Doña Ana County: tax-to-income at 2.6%
Counties near Doña Ana County's effective rate
On effective rate, Doña Ana County sits nearest Beaverhead County (MT), Vernon County (MO), Pike County (MO).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Clay County (TN), Cass County (ND), Norman County (MN).
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
Doña Ana County: only 3% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 3,260 of 102,660 returns from Doña Ana County reported real estate taxes, averaging $3,640 - 38% 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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Doña Ana County rate FAQs
- What is the average property tax in Doña Ana County, New Mexico?
- The median annual property tax in Doña Ana County is $1,480, an effective rate of 0.67% on a $220,800 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Doña Ana County?
- Doña Ana County, New Mexico scores C- (50/100) 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 C+ (0.67%). 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.
- How does Doña Ana County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Doña Ana County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.67% versus 0.92% nationally.
- Are property taxes increasing in Doña Ana County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Doña Ana County jumped 26.1% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,174 to $1,480, 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Doña Ana County?
- Property taxes in Doña Ana County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.6% of the $56,848 median household income.
What to do with Doña Ana County's QUIET rate
Doña Ana County's $1,480 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 →
Doña Ana County ranks #8 of 33 New Mexico counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. New Mexico overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Doña Ana 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: 0.67%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,480/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Doña Ana County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Doña Ana County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Crosby County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Doña Ana County at $1,480/yr; rate 1.83% vs Doña Ana County 0.67%.
Hardin County, KY
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Doña Ana County at $1,480/yr; rate 0.66% vs Doña Ana County 0.67%.
Howard County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Doña Ana County at $1,480/yr; rate 0.95% vs Doña Ana County 0.67%.
Franklin County, IN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,479/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.59% vs Doña Ana County 0.67%.
New Mexico county set
State ACS overview for every published New Mexico county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Doña Ana 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 Doña Ana County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.