Indiana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Randolph County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Randolph County pays $900 a year, an effective rate of 0.79%, far below the U.S. average.
- $900
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.79%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -55%
- vs U.S. average
- #13 of 92
- rank in IN
The verdict
Homeowners in Randolph County pay a median $900 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.79%, more affordable than 51% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $900
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.79%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1538 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -55%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($113,400). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Indiana. Population: 24,387. Owner-occupied homes: 8,009.
The median annual property tax in Randolph County is $900, which is 44% lower than the Indiana state average and 55% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.79% on a median home value of $113,400. Property taxes represent 1.5% of the median household income in this county.
Why Randolph County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Randolph County pay a median annual property tax of $900, far below the national median and well below the Indiana state median. On a $113,400 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.79% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Low among Indiana counties by effective rate
Randolph County ranks #13 of 92 counties in Indiana by effective rate (86% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 3
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Randolph County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.5% of the $60,791 median household income.
Decision signal 4
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Randolph County's 0.79% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 51%).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Randolph 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 held while the market moved
Randolph County sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 5.8% down, against a median home value that rose 35.5%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill rose 27.7%, from $705 to $900.
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 28% from $705 to $900. 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: 3,224 of 8,009 owner-occupied homes (40.3%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Both figures cluster near the middle of the national range, and the median bill comes to 1.5% 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 Randolph County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Randolph County homeowners, 3,224 of 8,009 owner-occupied homes (40.3%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 40.3% (3,224)
- $800 to $1,499 32.9% (2,635)
- $1,500 to $1,999 8.6% (690)
- $2,000 to $2,999 8.7% (700)
- $3,000 or more 5.2% (419)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
341 homes here (4.3%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Indiana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged and non-mortgaged homeowners in Randolph County pay about the same bill, a 1% gap.
Randolph County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Randolph County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Randolph County's median bill is 44% below the Indiana median and 55% below the U.S. median.
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Randolph County moved from $705 in the 2020 release to $900 in 2024, a change of about 28%. 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.
Randolph County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Randolph County | Indiana 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 | 1.5% | - | - |
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.
Randolph County is UNDER · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Indiana counties.
Randolph County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $900 +2.2% | 0.79% |
| 2023 | $881 +8.5% | 0.83% |
| 2022 | $812 +9.0% | 0.83% |
| 2021 | $745 +5.7% | 0.85% |
| 2020 | $705 | 0.84% |
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.
Randolph County: tax takes only 1.5% of income
Counties near Randolph County's median bill
On effective rate, Randolph County sits nearest Atkinson County (GA), Leon County (FL), Lee County (FL).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Lafayette Parish (LA), Jackson County (MO), Carlton County (MN).
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
Randolph County: only 1% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 170 of 11,510 returns from Randolph County reported real estate taxes, averaging $2,135 - 41% of those reporters sat in the $100-200k 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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Randolph County bill FAQs
- How does Randolph County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Randolph County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.79% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Randolph County?
- Property taxes in Randolph County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.5% of the $60,791 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Randolph County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Randolph County jumped 27.7% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $705 to $900, 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 is the tax affordability score for Randolph County?
- Randolph County, Indiana scores B+ (76/100) 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+ (1.87×). 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 Randolph County, Indiana?
- The median annual property tax in Randolph County is $900, an effective rate of 0.79% on a $113,400 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
What to do with Randolph County's LIGHT bill
Randolph County's $900 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 1.5% of Randolph County's $60,791 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Randolph County's LIGHT median, then a disjoint out-of-state rate set, not the same-state geography lattice.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.79%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $900/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Randolph County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Randolph County (UNDER · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER LIGHT
Colleton County, SC
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Randolph County at $900/yr; rate 0.55% vs Randolph County 0.79%.
Limestone County, AL
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Randolph County at $900/yr; rate 0.32% vs Randolph County 0.79%.
Wythe County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Randolph County at $900/yr; rate 0.53% vs Randolph County 0.79%.
Grainger County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $901/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.48% vs Randolph County 0.79%.
Indiana county set
State ACS overview for every published Indiana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Randolph County stamps UNDER · 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 Randolph County (UNDER · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.