Nebraska · County property tax · ACS 2024
Thomas County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Thomas County pays $1,364 a year, an effective rate of 1.25%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,364
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.25%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -32%
- vs U.S. average
- #50 of 93
- rank in NE
The verdict
Homeowners in Thomas County pay a median $1,364 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.25%, more affordable than 21% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,364
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.25%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2467 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -32%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($109,200). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Nebraska. Population: 564. Owner-occupied homes: 207.
The median annual property tax in Thomas County is $1,364, which is 62% lower than the Nebraska state average and 32% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.25% on a median home value of $109,200. Property taxes represent 2.1% of the median household income in this county.
Thomas County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Thomas County's 1.25% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 21%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Thomas County pay a median annual property tax of $1,364, well below the national median and far below the Nebraska state median. On a $109,200 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.25% 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 Thomas County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $65,000 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Nebraska counties by effective rate
Thomas County ranks #50 of 93 counties in Nebraska by effective rate (46% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Thomas 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
Thomas County sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 4.8% up, against a median home value that fell 9.0%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill fell 4.6%, from $1,430 to $1,364.
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
This is one of the counties where the typical bill came down, from $1,430 in 2020 to $1,364 in 2024, a fall of 5%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 62 of 207 owner-occupied homes (30.0%) 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 2.1% 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.
The published bill went DOWN here
Between the 2020 and 2024 ACS releases the median annual property tax in Thomas County fell from $1,430 to $1,364, a change of -4.6%. Fewer than three counties in a hundred recorded any decline over this period; nearly everywhere else the published figure rose. A fall can reflect reassessment, a shifting mix of the homes surveyed, or genuine rate relief, and these estimates cannot separate those causes.
What Thomas County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Thomas County homeowners, 62 of 207 owner-occupied homes (30.0%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 30.0% (62)
- $800 to $1,499 23.2% (48)
- $1,500 to $1,999 16.9% (35)
- $2,000 to $2,999 15.5% (32)
- $3,000 or more 12.1% (25)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
5 homes here (2.4%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Nebraska handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged and non-mortgaged homeowners in Thomas County pay about the same bill, a 9% gap.
Thomas County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Thomas County's effective rate is higher than 46% of the 93 counties in Nebraska - ranking #50 of 93.
Where Thomas County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.25% more affordable than 21% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Below Nebraska on both measures
Thomas County's effective rate runs 16% under the Nebraska median and its bill 62% 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 $1,364 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the Nebraska norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Thomas County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Thomas 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 | 2.1% | - | - |
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.
Thomas County is PAR · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Nebraska counties.
Thomas County rate trail · PAR
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,364 +11.1% | 1.25% |
| 2023 | $1,228 -6.9% | 1.09% |
| 2022 | $1,319 -4.9% | 0.94% |
| 2021 | $1,387 -3.0% | 0.91% |
| 2020 | $1,430 | 1.19% |
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.
Thomas County: tax-to-income at 2.1%
Counties near Thomas County's effective rate
On effective rate, Thomas County sits nearest Howard County (IA), Sumter County (GA), Clermont County (OH).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Bristol Bay Borough (AK), Mathews County (VA), Hickman County (KY).
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 Thomas County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Thomas 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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Thomas County rate FAQs
- How does Thomas County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Thomas County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.25% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Thomas County, Nebraska?
- The median annual property tax in Thomas County is $1,364, an effective rate of 1.25% on a $109,200 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Thomas County?
- Thomas County, Nebraska scores C (56/100) 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+ (1.68×). 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 Thomas County?
- Property taxes in Thomas County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.1% of the $65,000 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Thomas County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Thomas County eased 4.6% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,430 to $1,364, 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 to do with Thomas County's PAR rate
Thomas County's $1,364 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 →
Thomas County ranks #50 of 93 Nebraska counties by effective rate - on the lower-burden half of the state ACS set. Nebraska overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Thomas 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: 1.25%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,364/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Thomas County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Thomas County (PAR · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
PAR LIGHT
Montmorency County, MI
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Thomas County at $1,364/yr; rate 0.86% vs Thomas County 1.25%.
San Juan County, CO
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Thomas County at $1,364/yr; rate 0.32% vs Thomas County 1.25%.
Treasure County, MT
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Thomas County at $1,364/yr; rate 0.59% vs Thomas County 1.25%.
Jackson County, OH
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,363/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.90% vs Thomas County 1.25%.
Nebraska county set
State ACS overview for every published Nebraska county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Thomas 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 Thomas County (PAR · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.