Nevada · County property tax · ACS 2024
Eureka County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Eureka County pays $511 a year, an effective rate of 0.62%, far below the U.S. average.
- $511
- Median tax / yr · Very low bill
- 0.62%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -74%
- vs U.S. average
- #4 of 17
- rank in NV
The verdict
Homeowners in Eureka County pay a median $511 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.62%, more affordable than 69% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $511
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.62%
- Effective rate on median home
- #974 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -74%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($82,600). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Nevada. Population: 1,585. Owner-occupied homes: 516.
The median annual property tax in Eureka County is $511, which is 75% lower than the Nevada state average and 74% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.62% on a median home value of $82,600. Property taxes represent 0.7% of the median household income in this county.
Why Eureka County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Eureka County pay a median annual property tax of $511, far below the national median and far below the Nevada state median. On a $82,600 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.62% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Eureka County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 0.7% of the $70,473 median household income.
Decision signal 3
Low among Nevada counties by effective rate
Eureka County ranks #4 of 17 counties in Nevada by effective rate (76% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Eureka County's 0.62% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 69%).
Decision signal 5
The latest release moved the bill down
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has eased 5.5%, from $541 to $511. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Eureka 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.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 38% from $369 to $511. 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 largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 248 of 516 owner-occupied homes (48.1%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Above-median earnings meet a slightly-below-median rate, and the median bill amounts to 0.7% of median household income. That is the comfortable middle of this dataset, and comfortable middles are easy to overlook when only rankings get published.
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.
Paying off the mortgage changes the picture here
35.7% of Eureka County homes owned free and clear (146 of 409) report no property tax at all, against 0.0% of homes still carrying a mortgage. A reported zero is not proof of an exemption: it can equally mean a bill paid by another party, or a reporting artefact. But a gap this size is where age- and disability-based relief usually shows up, because those programmes reach owners who have finished paying.
What Eureka County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Eureka County homeowners, 248 of 516 owner-occupied homes (48.1%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 48.1% (248)
- $800 to $1,499 10.9% (56)
- $1,500 to $1,999 1.4% (7)
- $2,000 to $2,999 11.4% (59)
- $3,000 or more 0.0% (0)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
146 homes here (28.3%) report no real estate tax at all, an unusually large share, high enough that the median bill above describes a minority of Eureka County homeowners. Exemptions are set by state: how Nevada handles assessments and appeals.
Eureka County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Eureka County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Eureka County's median bill is 75% below the Nevada median and 74% below the U.S. median.
A high rate, a smaller bill
Eureka County taxes property at 0.62%, about 32% above the Nevada average, yet its median bill of $511 lands roughly 75% 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.
Eureka County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Eureka County | Nevada Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Very low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Very light income burden | 0.7% | - | - |
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.
Eureka County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Nevada counties.
Eureka County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $511 -5.5% | 0.62% |
| 2023 | $541 +3.6% | N/A |
| 2022 | $522 +9.4% | 0.29% |
| 2021 | $477 +29.3% | 0.32% |
| 2020 | $369 | 0.24% |
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.
Eureka County: tax takes only 0.7% of income
Counties near Eureka County's median bill
On effective rate, Eureka County sits nearest Garfield County (MT), Scott County (MO), Dade County (MO).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Crook County (OR), Quay County (NM), Kershaw County (SC).
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 Eureka County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Eureka 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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Eureka County bill FAQs
- How does Eureka County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Eureka County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.62% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Eureka County?
- Property taxes in Eureka County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 0.7% of the $70,473 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Eureka County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Eureka County is recorded at $511 in the 2024 5-year release against $369 in 2020. That is a large swing, and it should be read as movement in a survey estimate rather than as a tax change: the median here rests on about 516 owner-occupied homes, and swings above 50% are roughly twelve times more common in the smallest counties than in the largest. Treat the two figures as imprecise and check the county assessor for actual rate changes.
- What is the average property tax in Eureka County, Nevada?
- The median annual property tax in Eureka County is $511, an effective rate of 0.62% on a $82,600 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Eureka County?
- Eureka County, Nevada scores A (89/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 4 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+ (0.7%). 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 Eureka County's LIGHT bill
Eureka County's $511 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 0.7% of Eureka County's $70,473 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Eureka County's LIGHT 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: 0.62%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $511/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Eureka County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Eureka County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Breathitt County, KY
ABS(median_tax) peer · $510/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.73% vs Eureka County 0.62%.
Grant County, OK
ABS(median_tax) peer · $513/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.49% vs Eureka County 0.62%.
Macon County, AL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $509/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.50% vs Eureka County 0.62%.
Sevier County, AR
ABS(median_tax) peer · $514/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.44% vs Eureka County 0.62%.
Nevada county set
State ACS overview for every published Nevada county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Eureka 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 Eureka County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.