Louisiana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Orleans Parish Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Orleans Parish pays $2,606 a year, an effective rate of 0.83%, well above the U.S. average.
- $2,606
- Median tax / yr · High bill
- 0.83%
- Effective rate · Above-median rate
- +31%
- vs U.S. average
- #1 of 64
- rank in LA
The verdict
Homeowners in Orleans Parish pay a median $2,606 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.83%, more affordable than 48% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $2,606
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.83%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1639 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- +31%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($315,700). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Louisiana. Population: 371,853. Owner-occupied homes: 79,744.
The median annual property tax in Orleans Parish is $2,606, which is 121% higher than the Louisiana state average and 31% above the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.83% on a median home value of $315,700. Property taxes represent 4.6% of the median household income in this county.
Orleans Parish's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The bill sits well above the national median
Homeowners in Orleans Parish pay a median annual property tax of $2,606, well above the national median and far above the Louisiana state median. On a $315,700 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.83% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Orleans Parish's 0.83% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 48%).
Decision signal 3
Low among Louisiana counties by effective rate
Orleans Parish ranks #1 of 64 counties in Louisiana by effective rate (98% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Orleans Parish run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 4.6% of the $56,631 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Orleans Parish 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 held while the market moved
Orleans Parish sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 10.5% up, against a median home value that rose 26.3%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill rose 39.5%, from $1,868 to $2,606.
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
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 40% from $1,868 to $2,606. 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 heaviest band is also the fullest one here: 34,178 of 79,744 owner-occupied homes (42.9%) report annual real-estate taxes above $3,000. That band has no upper edge in the source, so the county median understates the burden carried by the plurality rather than describing it.
This county earns in the bottom quarter of the country and taxes above the median rate, so the median bill absorbs 4.6% of median household income. The rate alone understates that; it is the pairing that matters.
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.
Orleans Parish is an outlier inside Louisiana
Across the 64 Louisiana counties with a published rate, the average effective rate is 0.43%. Orleans Parish is at 0.83%, which sits 3.0 standard deviations above that average. Fewer than one county in twenty nationally is this far from its own state's centre, so a state-level average is a poor guide to what is owed here.
Standard deviations are computed across every county in the state with a published effective rate for 2024; states with fewer than five such counties are not assessed.
What Orleans Parish Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Orleans Parish homeowners, 34,178 of 79,744 owner-occupied homes (42.9%), pays $3,000 or more a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 17.0% (13,571)
- $800 to $1,499 14.7% (11,725)
- $1,500 to $1,999 8.5% (6,779)
- $2,000 to $2,999 12.4% (9,927)
- $3,000 or more 42.9% (34,178)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
3,564 homes here (4.5%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Louisiana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Orleans Parish pay more than double the bill of those without one (+67%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Orleans Parish's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Orleans Parish's effective rate is higher than 98% of the 64 counties in Louisiana - ranking #1 of 64.
Where Orleans Parish sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.83% more affordable than 48% 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 Orleans Parish moved from $1,868 in the 2020 release to $2,606 in 2024, a change of about 40%. 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.
Orleans Parish vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Orleans Parish | Louisiana Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax High bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Above-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Highest-decile income burden | 4.6% | - | - |
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.
Orleans Parish is UNDER · MID on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Louisiana counties.
Orleans Parish rate trail · UNDER
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2,606 +7.3% | 0.83% |
| 2023 | $2,428 +9.1% | 0.82% |
| 2022 | $2,226 +14.3% | 0.79% |
| 2021 | $1,947 +4.2% | 0.76% |
| 2020 | $1,868 | 0.75% |
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.
Orleans Parish: tax takes 4.6% of income
Counties near Orleans Parish's effective rate
On effective rate, Orleans Parish sits nearest Mercer County (KY), Gallatin County (KY), Bullitt County (KY).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Dukes County (MA), Liberty County (FL), Sac County (IA).
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
Orleans Parish: only 7% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 10,810 of 155,070 returns from Orleans Parish reported real estate taxes, averaging $6,899 - 40% of those reporters sat in the $200k+ 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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Orleans Parish rate FAQs
- How does Orleans Parish property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Orleans Parish run well above the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.83% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Orleans Parish, Louisiana?
- The median annual property tax in Orleans Parish is $2,606, an effective rate of 0.83% on a $315,700 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Orleans Parish?
- Orleans Parish, Louisiana scores F (22/100) 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 D (0.83%). 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 Orleans Parish?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Orleans Parish jumped 39.5% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,868 to $2,606, 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Orleans Parish?
- Property taxes in Orleans Parish run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 4.6% of the $56,631 median household income.
What to do with Orleans Parish's UNDER rate
Orleans Parish's $2,606 median bill sits well above the U.S. median - size a personal estimate before treating the county headline as your budget. Estimate your bill →
Orleans Parish ranks #1 of 64 Louisiana counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Louisiana overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Orleans Parish's UNDER 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: 0.83%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $2,606/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Orleans Parish
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Orleans Parish (UNDER · MID), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER MID
Juneau County, WI
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,605/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.47% vs Orleans Parish 0.83%.
Kennebec County, ME
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,605/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.09% vs Orleans Parish 0.83%.
Lynn County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,604/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 1.77% vs Orleans Parish 0.83%.
Nez Perce County, ID
ABS(median_tax) peer · $2,609/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.78% vs Orleans Parish 0.83%.
Louisiana county set
State ACS overview for every published Louisiana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Orleans Parish stamps UNDER · 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 Orleans Parish (UNDER · MID) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.