New Mexico · County property tax · ACS 2024
Guadalupe County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Guadalupe County pays $526 a year, an effective rate of 0.48%, far below the U.S. average.
- $526
- Median tax / yr · Very low bill
- 0.48%
- Effective rate · Low rate
- -74%
- vs U.S. average
- #26 of 33
- rank in NM
The verdict
Homeowners in Guadalupe County pay a median $526 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.48%, more affordable than 85% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $526
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.48%
- Effective rate on median home
- #459 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 ($110,000). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for New Mexico. Population: 4,381. Owner-occupied homes: 1,112.
The median annual property tax in Guadalupe County is $526, which is 70% lower than the New Mexico state average and 74% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.48% on a median home value of $110,000. Property taxes represent 1.2% of the median household income in this county.
Guadalupe County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Guadalupe County's 0.48% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 85%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Guadalupe County pay a median annual property tax of $526, far below the national median and far below the New Mexico state median. On a $110,000 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.48% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Guadalupe County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.2% of the $42,750 median household income.
Decision signal 4
High among New Mexico counties by effective rate
Guadalupe County ranks #26 of 33 counties in New Mexico by effective rate (21% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Guadalupe 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.
The rate gave way faster than almost anywhere
Between the 2020 and 2024 releases the median home value in Guadalupe County rose 9.5%, from $100,500 to $110,000. The effective rate fell 19.5% over the same span, a steeper move than in 81% of U.S. counties.
The median bill still fell 11.9%, to $526. Where the rate drops this far and the bill rises anyway, what changed is the value the rate is applied to.
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 $597 in 2020 to $526 in 2024, a fall of 12%. 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: 634 of 1,112 owner-occupied homes (57.0%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Both sides of this comparison sit low: household income here is in the bottom quarter of US counties, and so is the effective tax rate. The median bill works out at 1.2% of median household income, which is the arithmetic of a modest levy on modest earnings rather than of any deliberate relief.
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 Guadalupe County fell from $597 to $526, a change of -11.9%. 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 Guadalupe County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Guadalupe County homeowners, 634 of 1,112 owner-occupied homes (57.0%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 57.0% (634)
- $800 to $1,499 22.2% (247)
- $1,500 to $1,999 4.7% (52)
- $2,000 to $2,999 4.6% (51)
- $3,000 or more 8.4% (93)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
35 homes here (3.1%) 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 Guadalupe County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+167%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Guadalupe County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Guadalupe County's effective rate is higher than 21% of the 33 counties in New Mexico - ranking #26 of 33.
Where Guadalupe County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.48% Among the most affordable more affordable than 85% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Below New Mexico on both measures
Guadalupe County's effective rate runs 31% under the New Mexico median and its bill 70% under. Both sitting on the same side means the gap is not a valuation artefact: a county can post a low rate purely because its homes are expensive, but then the bill rises to meet the state. Here it does not, so the $526 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the New Mexico norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Guadalupe County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Guadalupe County | New Mexico Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Very low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Low rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Very light income burden | 1.2% | - | - |
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.
Guadalupe County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · New Mexico counties.
Guadalupe County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $526 -6.6% | 0.48% |
| 2023 | $563 -3.8% | 0.53% |
| 2022 | $585 -26.7% | 0.50% |
| 2021 | $798 +33.7% | 0.75% |
| 2020 | $597 | 0.59% |
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.
Guadalupe County: tax takes only 1.2% of income
Counties near Guadalupe County's effective rate
On effective rate, Guadalupe County sits nearest Clark County (NV), Mineral County (MT), Choctaw County (MS).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Carter County (MO), Chautauqua County (KS), Lee County (AR).
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
Guadalupe County: only 3% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 50 of 1,840 returns from Guadalupe County reported real estate taxes, averaging $1,320 - 100% of those reporters sat in the $50-75k 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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Guadalupe County rate FAQs
- How does Guadalupe County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Guadalupe County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.48% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the tax affordability score for Guadalupe County?
- Guadalupe County, New Mexico scores B+ (79/100) 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 bill size at A+ ($526/yr). 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 Guadalupe County, New Mexico?
- The median annual property tax in Guadalupe County is $526, an effective rate of 0.48% on a $110,000 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Guadalupe County?
- Property taxes in Guadalupe County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.2% of the $42,750 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Guadalupe County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Guadalupe County declined 11.9% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $597 to $526, 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 Guadalupe County's QUIET rate
Guadalupe County's $526 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 1.2% of Guadalupe County's $42,750 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Guadalupe 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: 0.48%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $526/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Guadalupe County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Guadalupe County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Ouachita County, AR
ABS(median_tax) peer · $525/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.51% vs Guadalupe County 0.48%.
Randolph County, AR
ABS(median_tax) peer · $527/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.40% vs Guadalupe County 0.48%.
McCurtain County, OK
ABS(median_tax) peer · $528/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.37% vs Guadalupe County 0.48%.
Blount County, AL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $523/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.30% vs Guadalupe County 0.48%.
New Mexico county set
State ACS overview for every published New Mexico county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.