Kansas · County property tax · ACS 2024
Edwards County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Edwards County pays $1,120 a year, an effective rate of 1.58%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,120
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.58%
- Effective rate · Highest-decile rate
- -44%
- vs U.S. average
- #44 of 105
- rank in KS
The verdict
Homeowners in Edwards County pay a median $1,120 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.58%, more affordable than 9% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,120
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.58%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2865 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -44%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($70,900). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Kansas. Population: 2,779. Owner-occupied homes: 920.
The median annual property tax in Edwards County is $1,120, which is 60% lower than the Kansas state average and 44% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.58% on a median home value of $70,900. Property taxes represent 2.1% of the median household income in this county.
Edwards County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate is a national headwind
Edwards County's 1.58% effective rate is among the highest of 3,135 tracked counties: only about 91% pay more.
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Edwards County pay a median annual property tax of $1,120, well below the national median and far below the Kansas state median. On a $70,900 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.58% 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 Edwards County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $52,692 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Kansas counties by effective rate
Edwards County ranks #44 of 105 counties in Kansas by effective rate (58% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Edwards 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
Edwards County's effective rate fell 14.9% across the 4-year span while its median home value rose 16.8%, leaving the median bill 0.6% lower at $1,120. That rate move is larger than the one in 63% 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 $1,127 in 2020 to $1,120 in 2024, a fall of 1%. 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: 345 of 920 owner-occupied homes (37.5%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
This is the least forgiving PAIRING in the data, bottom-quartile household income with a top-quartile effective rate, putting the median bill at 2.1% of median household income. Neither figure is remarkable on its own; the combination is, and the ratio above is the only part of it a household actually feels.
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 Edwards County fell from $1,127 to $1,120, a change of -0.6%. 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 Edwards County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Edwards County homeowners, 345 of 920 owner-occupied homes (37.5%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 37.5% (345)
- $800 to $1,499 21.5% (198)
- $1,500 to $1,999 15.8% (145)
- $2,000 to $2,999 7.0% (64)
- $3,000 or more 15.3% (141)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
27 homes here (2.9%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Kansas handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Edwards County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+64%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Edwards County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Edwards County's effective rate is higher than 58% of the 105 counties in Kansas - ranking #44 of 105.
Where Edwards County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.58% more affordable than 9% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
A high rate, a smaller bill
Edwards County taxes property at 1.58%, about 22% above the Kansas average, yet its median bill of $1,120 lands roughly 60% below it. The effective rate is the bill divided by the home's value, so a county can only sit on opposite sides of the state average this way when its homes are worth materially less than the state norm. The rate is the policy; the bill is what the housing market does with it.
Edwards County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Edwards County | Kansas Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Highest-decile 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.
Edwards County's STEEP · LIGHT lane - is an appeal worth running?
On Edwards County's published figures (STEEP · LIGHT), a $70,900 median home carries a $1,120 median bill, so every 10% off an assessed value is worth about $112 a year at the same rate. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Kansas.
Edwards County rate trail · STEEP
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,120 -0.3% | 1.58% |
| 2023 | $1,123 -1.9% | 1.59% |
| 2022 | $1,145 -1.6% | 1.75% |
| 2021 | $1,164 +3.3% | 1.86% |
| 2020 | $1,127 | 1.86% |
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.
Edwards County: tax-to-income at 2.1%
Counties near Edwards County's effective rate
On effective rate, Edwards County sits nearest Wapello County (IA), Richland County (IL), Henderson County (IL).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are LaSalle Parish (LA), Torrance County (NM), Wayne County (MO).
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 Edwards County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Edwards 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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Edwards County rate FAQs
- How does Edwards County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Edwards County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.58% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Edwards County, Kansas?
- The median annual property tax in Edwards County is $1,120, an effective rate of 1.58% on a $70,900 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Edwards County?
- Edwards County, Kansas scores D (46/100) 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 A+ (1.35×). 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 Edwards County?
- Property taxes in Edwards County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $52,692 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Edwards County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Edwards County held roughly steady, down 0.6% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,127 to $1,120, 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 Edwards County's STEEP rate
Edwards County's $1,120 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 →
Edwards County ranks #44 of 105 Kansas counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Kansas overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Edwards County's STEEP 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: 1.58%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,120/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Edwards County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Edwards County (STEEP · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
STEEP LIGHT
Columbus County, NC
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Edwards County at $1,120/yr; rate 0.77% vs Edwards County 1.58%.
Wells County, ND
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,119/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.98% vs Edwards County 1.58%.
Winkler County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,119/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.76% vs Edwards County 1.58%.
Bryan County, OK
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,118/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.64% vs Edwards County 1.58%.
Kansas county set
State ACS overview for every published Kansas county rate and median bill.
Appeal filing windows
Edwards County stamps STEEP · LIGHT - review notice deadlines before quoting the ACS median.
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 Edwards County (STEEP · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.