Nebraska · County property tax · ACS 2024
Keya Paha County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Keya Paha County pays $1,404 a year, an effective rate of 1.29%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,404
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.29%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -30%
- vs U.S. average
- #44 of 93
- rank in NE
The verdict
Homeowners in Keya Paha County pay a median $1,404 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.29%, more affordable than 19% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,404
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.29%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2533 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -30%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($108,800). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Nebraska. Population: 822. Owner-occupied homes: 244.
The median annual property tax in Keya Paha County is $1,404, which is 60% lower than the Nebraska state average and 30% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.29% on a median home value of $108,800. Property taxes represent 2.2% of the median household income in this county.
Keya Paha County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Keya Paha County's 1.29% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 19%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Keya Paha County pay a median annual property tax of $1,404, well below the national median and far below the Nebraska state median. On a $108,800 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.29% 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 Keya Paha County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $64,000 median household income.
Decision signal 4
The latest release moved the bill up
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has climbed 13.2%, from $1,240 to $1,404. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Decision signal 5
Near the middle of Nebraska counties by effective rate
Keya Paha County ranks #44 of 93 counties in Nebraska by effective rate (53% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Keya Paha 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 53% from $918 to $1,404. 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: 74 of 244 owner-occupied homes (30.3%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
A top-quartile rate meets below-median earnings here, and the median bill reaches 2.2% of median household income. A rate ranking places this county by the rate alone; the ratio above is the figure that accounts for what is earned here.
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 Keya Paha County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Keya Paha County homeowners, 74 of 244 owner-occupied homes (30.3%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 30.3% (74)
- $800 to $1,499 13.9% (34)
- $1,500 to $1,999 11.5% (28)
- $2,000 to $2,999 16.0% (39)
- $3,000 or more 14.8% (36)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
33 homes here (13.5%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how Nebraska handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Keya Paha County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+115%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Keya Paha County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Keya Paha County's effective rate is higher than 53% of the 93 counties in Nebraska - ranking #44 of 93.
Where Keya Paha County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.29% more affordable than 19% 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 Keya Paha County moved from $918 in the 2020 release to $1,404 in 2024, a change of about 53%. 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.
Keya Paha County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Keya Paha County | Nebraska Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate High rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.2% | - | - |
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.
Keya Paha County is PAR · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Nebraska counties.
Keya Paha County rate trail · PAR
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,404 +13.2% | 1.29% |
| 2023 | $1,240 +25.5% | 1.14% |
| 2022 | $988 +3.2% | 0.91% |
| 2021 | $957 +4.2% | 1.12% |
| 2020 | $918 | 1.41% |
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.
Keya Paha County: tax-to-income at 2.2%
Counties near Keya Paha County's effective rate
On effective rate, Keya Paha County sits nearest Humboldt County (IA), Clayton County (IA), Bremer County (IA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Phillips County (CO), Elbert County (GA), Grayson County (TX).
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 Keya Paha County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Keya Paha 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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Keya Paha County rate FAQs
- How does Keya Paha County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Keya Paha County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.29% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Keya Paha County, Nebraska?
- The median annual property tax in Keya Paha County is $1,404, an effective rate of 1.29% on a $108,800 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- Are property taxes increasing in Keya Paha County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Keya Paha County is recorded at $1,404 in the 2024 5-year release against $918 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 244 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 tax affordability score for Keya Paha County?
- Keya Paha County, Nebraska scores D (44/100) 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+ (1.70×). 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 Keya Paha County?
- Property taxes in Keya Paha County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $64,000 median household income.
What to do with Keya Paha County's PAR rate
Keya Paha County's $1,404 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 →
Keya Paha County ranks #44 of 93 Nebraska counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Nebraska overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Keya Paha County's PAR 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: 1.29%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,404/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Keya Paha County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Keya Paha County (PAR · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
PAR LIGHT
Tyler County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Keya Paha County at $1,404/yr; rate 0.89% vs Keya Paha County 1.29%.
Evans County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,405/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.02% vs Keya Paha County 1.29%.
Habersham County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,403/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.59% vs Keya Paha County 1.29%.
Hinds County, MS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,403/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.88% vs Keya Paha County 1.29%.
Nebraska county set
State ACS overview for every published Nebraska county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Keya Paha County stamps PAR · 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 Keya Paha County (PAR · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.