North Dakota · County property tax · ACS 2024
Sheridan County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Sheridan County pays $774 a year, an effective rate of 0.70%, far below the U.S. average.
- $774
- Median tax / yr · Low bill
- 0.70%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -61%
- vs U.S. average
- #40 of 53
- rank in ND
The verdict
Homeowners in Sheridan County pay a median $774 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.70%, more affordable than 60% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $774
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.70%
- Effective rate on median home
- #1260 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -61%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($110,300). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for North Dakota. Population: 1,303. Owner-occupied homes: 567.
The median annual property tax in Sheridan County is $774, which is 69% lower than the North Dakota state average and 61% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.70% on a median home value of $110,300. Property taxes represent 1.2% of the median household income in this county.
Why Sheridan County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Sheridan County pay a median annual property tax of $774, far below the national median and far below the North Dakota state median. On a $110,300 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.70% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Sheridan County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.2% of the $62,639 median household income.
Decision signal 3
High among North Dakota counties by effective rate
Sheridan County ranks #40 of 53 counties in North Dakota by effective rate (25% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Sheridan County's 0.70% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 60%).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Sheridan 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
Sheridan County sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 6.5% up, against a median home value that rose 15.1%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill rose 22.7%, from $631 to $774.
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
Bills rose across 2020-2024, from $631 to $774, a gain of 23%. This is a comparison of published ACS medians, not an explanation of a particular property's assessment or tax bill.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 262 of 567 owner-occupied homes (46.2%) 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 1.2% 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 Sheridan County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Sheridan County homeowners, 262 of 567 owner-occupied homes (46.2%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 46.2% (262)
- $800 to $1,499 22.8% (129)
- $1,500 to $1,999 6.0% (34)
- $2,000 to $2,999 6.0% (34)
- $3,000 or more 9.3% (53)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
55 homes here (9.7%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how North Dakota handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Sheridan County pay a substantially higher bill, 42% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Sheridan County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Sheridan County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Sheridan County's median bill is 69% below the North Dakota median and 61% below the U.S. median.
Below North Dakota on both measures
Sheridan County's effective rate runs 29% under the North Dakota median and its bill 69% 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 $774 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the North Dakota norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Sheridan County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Sheridan County | North Dakota Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median 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.
Sheridan County is UNDER · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · North Dakota counties.
Sheridan County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $774 +2.8% | 0.70% |
| 2023 | $753 -11.2% | 0.70% |
| 2022 | $848 +13.7% | 0.78% |
| 2021 | $746 +18.2% | 0.71% |
| 2020 | $631 | 0.66% |
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.
Sheridan County: tax takes only 1.2% of income
Counties near Sheridan County's median bill
On effective rate, Sheridan County sits nearest Wayne County (NC), Union County (NM), Rosebud County (MT).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Pickens County (SC), Mercer County (IL), Lyon County (NV).
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 Sheridan County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Sheridan 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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Sheridan County bill FAQs
- How does Sheridan County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Sheridan County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.70% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Sheridan County?
- Property taxes in Sheridan County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 1.2% of the $62,639 median household income.
- What is the tax affordability score for Sheridan County?
- Sheridan County, North Dakota scores B+ (77/100) 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+ (1.76×). 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 Sheridan County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Sheridan County jumped 22.7% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $631 to $774, 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 average property tax in Sheridan County, North Dakota?
- The median annual property tax in Sheridan County is $774, an effective rate of 0.70% on a $110,300 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
What to do with Sheridan County's LIGHT bill
Sheridan County's $774 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 Sheridan County's $62,639 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Sheridan 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: 0.70%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $774/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Sheridan County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Sheridan County (UNDER · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
UNDER LIGHT
Danville city, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Sheridan County at $774/yr; rate 0.65% vs Sheridan County 0.70%.
Barnwell County, SC
ABS(median_tax) peer · $775/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.73% vs Sheridan County 0.70%.
Marion County, AR
ABS(median_tax) peer · $775/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.47% vs Sheridan County 0.70%.
Wilkinson County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $775/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.90% vs Sheridan County 0.70%.
North Dakota county set
State ACS overview for every published North Dakota county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Sheridan 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 Sheridan County (UNDER · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.