Washington · County property tax · ACS 2024
Garfield County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Garfield County pays $1,574 a year, an effective rate of 0.66%, notably lower than the U.S. average.
- $1,574
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.66%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -21%
- vs U.S. average
- #32 of 39
- rank in WA
The verdict
Homeowners in Garfield County pay a median $1,574 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.66%, more affordable than 64% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,574
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.66%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1116 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -21%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($239,200). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Washington. Population: 2,353. Owner-occupied homes: 793.
The median annual property tax in Garfield County is $1,574, which is 65% lower than the Washington state average and 21% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.66% on a median home value of $239,200. Property taxes represent 2.4% of the median household income in this county.
Garfield County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Garfield County's 0.66% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 64%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits below the Washington median
Homeowners in Garfield County pay a median annual property tax of $1,574, notably lower than the national median and far below the Washington state median. On a $239,200 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.66% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
High among Washington counties by effective rate
Garfield County ranks #32 of 39 counties in Washington by effective rate (18% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
The latest release moved the bill up
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has jumped 20.5%, from $1,306 to $1,574. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Decision signal 5
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Garfield County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.4% of the $64,884 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Garfield 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 25% from $1,259 to $1,574. 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 234 of 793 owner-occupied homes (29.5%). 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 2.4% 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 Garfield County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Garfield County homeowners, 234 of 793 owner-occupied homes (29.5%), pays $800 to $1,499 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 17.7% (140)
- $800 to $1,499 29.5% (234)
- $1,500 to $1,999 10.2% (81)
- $2,000 to $2,999 20.2% (160)
- $3,000 or more 19.8% (157)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
21 homes here (2.6%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Washington handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Garfield County pay a substantially higher bill, 31% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Garfield County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Garfield County's effective rate is higher than 18% of the 39 counties in Washington - ranking #32 of 39.
Where Garfield County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.66% Among the most affordable more affordable than 64% 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 Garfield County moved from $1,259 in the 2020 release to $1,574 in 2024, a change of about 25%. 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.
Garfield County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Garfield County | Washington Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.4% | - | - |
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.
Garfield County is QUIET · MID on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Washington counties.
Garfield County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,574 +20.5% | 0.66% |
| 2023 | $1,306 -2.8% | 0.61% |
| 2022 | $1,344 +5.8% | 0.71% |
| 2021 | $1,270 +0.9% | 0.78% |
| 2020 | $1,259 | 0.83% |
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.
Garfield County: tax-to-income at 2.4%
Counties near Garfield County's effective rate
On effective rate, Garfield County sits nearest Southampton County (VA), Hanover County (VA), Gibson County (TN).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Decatur County (GA), Dawes County (NE), Russell 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
IRS county file: no disclosed Garfield County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Garfield 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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Garfield County rate FAQs
- How does Garfield County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Garfield County run notably lower than the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.66% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Garfield County, Washington?
- The median annual property tax in Garfield County is $1,574, an effective rate of 0.66% on a $239,200 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Garfield County?
- Garfield County, Washington scores C- (51/100) 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 B- (0.66%). 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.
- Are property taxes increasing in Garfield County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Garfield County is recorded at $1,574 in the 2024 5-year release against $1,259 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 793 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Garfield County?
- Property taxes in Garfield County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.4% of the $64,884 median household income.
What to do with Garfield County's QUIET rate
Inside Washington, Garfield County's $1,574 median bill runs low versus the state median - check peer counties before assuming the lowest bill is the best move. Washington overview →
Garfield County ranks #32 of 39 Washington counties by effective rate - on the lower-burden half of the state ACS set. Washington overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Garfield 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: 0.66%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,574/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Garfield County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Garfield County (QUIET · MID), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET MID
Aurora County, SD
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Garfield County at $1,574/yr; rate 1.04% vs Garfield County 0.66%.
Big Horn County, MT
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Garfield County at $1,574/yr; rate 1.10% vs Garfield County 0.66%.
Lincoln County, MN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Garfield County at $1,574/yr; rate 0.96% vs Garfield County 0.66%.
Marshall County, KS
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Garfield County at $1,574/yr; rate 1.23% vs Garfield County 0.66%.
Washington county set
State ACS overview for every published Washington county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Garfield County stamps QUIET · MID - 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 Garfield County (QUIET · MID) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.