Kansas · County property tax · ACS 2024
Wallace County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Wallace County pays $1,405 a year, an effective rate of 1.34%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,405
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.34%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -30%
- vs U.S. average
- #80 of 105
- rank in KS
The verdict
Homeowners in Wallace County pay a median $1,405 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.34%, more affordable than 17% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,405
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.34%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2601 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -30%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($105,000). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Kansas. Population: 1,417. Owner-occupied homes: 448.
The median annual property tax in Wallace County is $1,405, which is 50% lower than the Kansas state average and 30% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.34% on a median home value of $105,000. Property taxes represent 2.2% of the median household income in this county.
Wallace County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Wallace County's 1.34% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 17%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Wallace County pay a median annual property tax of $1,405, well below the national median and far below the Kansas state median. On a $105,000 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.34% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
High among Kansas counties by effective rate
Wallace County ranks #80 of 105 counties in Kansas by effective rate (24% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Wallace County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $63,207 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Wallace 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 gave way faster than almost anywhere
Between the 2020 and 2024 releases the median home value in Wallace County rose 24.3%, from $84,500 to $105,000. The effective rate fell 25.8% over the same span, a steeper move than in 94% of U.S. counties.
The median bill still fell 7.8%, to $1,405. Where the rate drops this far and the bill rises anyway, what changed is the value the rate is applied to.
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 $1,524 in 2020 to $1,405 in 2024, a fall of 8%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The heaviest band is also the fullest one here: 135 of 448 owner-occupied homes (30.1%) 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.
A top-quartile rate meets below-median earnings here, and the median bill reaches 2.2% 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 Wallace County fell from $1,524 to $1,405, a change of -7.8%. 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 Wallace County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Wallace County homeowners, 135 of 448 owner-occupied homes (30.1%), pays $3,000 or more a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 23.9% (107)
- $800 to $1,499 29.2% (131)
- $1,500 to $1,999 4.7% (21)
- $2,000 to $2,999 11.6% (52)
- $3,000 or more 30.1% (135)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Wallace County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+96%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Wallace County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Wallace County's effective rate is higher than 24% of the 105 counties in Kansas - ranking #80 of 105.
Where Wallace County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.34% more affordable than 17% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Same rate as Kansas, a smaller bill
The effective rate here sits within 4% of the Kansas median, yet the median bill runs 50% below it. When the rate matches and the cheque does not, the difference is in what is being taxed, not how heavily: the same percentage applied to cheaper housing produces $1,405 here. That is why comparing counties on rate alone can invert the answer a homeowner actually cares about.
Wallace County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Wallace County | Kansas 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 | 2.2% | - | - |
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.
Wallace County's STEEP · LIGHT lane - is an appeal worth running?
On Wallace County's published figures (STEEP · LIGHT), a $105,000 median home carries a $1,405 median bill, so every 10% off an assessed value is worth about $141 a year at the same rate. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Kansas.
Wallace County rate trail · STEEP
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,405 -3.0% | 1.34% |
| 2023 | $1,449 -16.5% | 1.54% |
| 2022 | $1,736 +5.8% | 1.80% |
| 2021 | $1,641 +7.7% | 1.90% |
| 2020 | $1,524 | 1.80% |
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.
Wallace County: tax-to-income at 2.2%
Counties near Wallace County's effective rate
On effective rate, Wallace County sits nearest Ringgold County (IA), Floyd County (IA), Delaware County (IA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Grant County (NE), Real County (TX), Culberson County (TX).
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 Wallace County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Wallace 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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Wallace County rate FAQs
- How does Wallace County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Wallace County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.34% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Wallace County, Kansas?
- The median annual property tax in Wallace County is $1,405, an effective rate of 1.34% on a $105,000 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Wallace County?
- Wallace County, Kansas scores D (43/100) 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+ (1.66×). 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 Wallace County?
- Property taxes in Wallace County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $63,207 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Wallace County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Wallace County eased 7.8% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,524 to $1,405, 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 Wallace County's STEEP rate
Wallace County's $1,405 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 →
Wallace County ranks #80 of 105 Kansas counties by effective rate - on the lower-burden half of the state ACS set. Kansas overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Wallace County's STEEP 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: 1.34%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,405/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Wallace County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Wallace County (STEEP · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
STEEP LIGHT
Evans County, GA
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Wallace County at $1,405/yr; rate 1.02% vs Wallace County 1.34%.
Crawford County, KS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,406/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.06% vs Wallace County 1.34%.
Keya Paha County, NE
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,404/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.29% vs Wallace County 1.34%.
Tyler County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,404/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.89% vs Wallace County 1.34%.
Kansas county set
State ACS overview for every published Kansas county rate and median bill.
Appeal filing windows
Wallace County stamps STEEP · LIGHT - review notice deadlines before quoting the ACS median.
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 Wallace County (STEEP · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.