Colorado · County property tax · ACS 2024
Kiowa County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Kiowa County pays $939 a year, an effective rate of 0.58%, far below the U.S. average.
- $939
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.58%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -53%
- vs U.S. average
- #3 of 64
- rank in CO
The verdict
Homeowners in Kiowa County pay a median $939 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.58%, more affordable than 74% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $939
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.58%
- Effective rate on median home
- #816 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -53%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($161,500). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Colorado. Population: 1,376. Owner-occupied homes: 402.
The median annual property tax in Kiowa County is $939, which is 64% lower than the Colorado state average and 53% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.58% on a median home value of $161,500. Property taxes represent 1.6% of the median household income in this county.
Kiowa County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Kiowa County's 0.58% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 74%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Kiowa County pay a median annual property tax of $939, far below the national median and far below the Colorado state median. On a $161,500 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.58% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Low among Colorado counties by effective rate
Kiowa County ranks #3 of 64 counties in Colorado by effective rate (95% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Kiowa County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.6% of the $58,618 median household income.
Decision signal 5
The latest release moved the bill up
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has climbed 8.9%, from $862 to $939. 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 Kiowa 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 49% from $632 to $939. 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: 172 of 402 owner-occupied homes (42.8%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Household income sits in the second quarter nationally and the effective rate in the lowest, so the median bill takes 1.6% of median household income. Both figures point the same way, which is unusual enough that the ratio above is worth reading rather than assumed.
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 Kiowa County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Kiowa County homeowners, 172 of 402 owner-occupied homes (42.8%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 42.8% (172)
- $800 to $1,499 27.4% (110)
- $1,500 to $1,999 4.0% (16)
- $2,000 to $2,999 14.4% (58)
- $3,000 or more 10.2% (41)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
5 homes here (1.2%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Colorado handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Kiowa County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+110%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Kiowa County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Kiowa County's effective rate is higher than 95% of the 64 counties in Colorado - ranking #3 of 64.
Where Kiowa County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.58% Among the most affordable more affordable than 74% 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
Kiowa County taxes property at 0.58%, about 21% above the Colorado average, yet its median bill of $939 lands roughly 64% 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.
Kiowa County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Kiowa County | Colorado Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Light income burden | 1.6% | - | - |
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.
Kiowa County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Colorado counties.
Kiowa County rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $939 +8.9% | 0.58% |
| 2023 | $862 +5.0% | 0.58% |
| 2022 | $821 +20.9% | 0.64% |
| 2021 | $679 +7.4% | 0.64% |
| 2020 | $632 | 0.74% |
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.
Kiowa County: tax takes only 1.6% of income
Counties near Kiowa County's effective rate
On effective rate, Kiowa County sits nearest Trinity County (CA), District of Columbia (DC), Bay County (FL).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Schuyler County (MO), Nobles County (MN), Linn County (KS).
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 Kiowa County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Kiowa 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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Kiowa County rate FAQs
- How does Kiowa County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Kiowa County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.58% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Kiowa County, Colorado?
- The median annual property tax in Kiowa County is $939, an effective rate of 0.58% on a $161,500 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- Are property taxes increasing in Kiowa County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Kiowa County is recorded at $939 in the 2024 5-year release against $632 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 402 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 Kiowa County?
- Kiowa County, Colorado scores B- (68/100) 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 income room at A- (1.6%). 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 Kiowa County?
- Property taxes in Kiowa County run a bit below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.6% of the $58,618 median household income.
What to do with Kiowa County's QUIET rate
Kiowa County's $939 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 1.6% of Kiowa County's $58,618 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Kiowa 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: 0.58%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $939/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Kiowa County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Kiowa County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Dickens County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Kiowa County at $939/yr; rate 1.44% vs Kiowa County 0.58%.
Piute County, UT
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Kiowa County at $939/yr; rate 0.35% vs Kiowa County 0.58%.
Stewart County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Kiowa County at $939/yr; rate 0.46% vs Kiowa County 0.58%.
Stoddard County, MO
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Kiowa County at $939/yr; rate 0.66% vs Kiowa County 0.58%.
Colorado county set
State ACS overview for every published Colorado county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Kiowa 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 Kiowa County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.