Montana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Wibaux County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Wibaux County pays $598 a year, an effective rate of 0.61%, far below the U.S. average.
- $598
- Median tax / yr · Very low bill
- 0.61%
- Effective rate · Below-median rate
- -70%
- vs U.S. average
- #34 of 56
- rank in MT
The verdict
Homeowners in Wibaux County pay a median $598 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.61%, more affordable than 70% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $598
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.61%
- Effective rate on median home
- #932 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -70%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($98,600). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Montana. Population: 1,193. Owner-occupied homes: 334.
The median annual property tax in Wibaux County is $598, which is 78% lower than the Montana state average and 70% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.61% on a median home value of $98,600. Property taxes represent 0.9% of the median household income in this county.
Why Wibaux County's ACS bill runs light vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Wibaux County pay a median annual property tax of $598, far below the national median and far below the Montana state median. On a $98,600 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.61% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a light tax share
Property taxes in Wibaux County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 0.9% of the $67,462 median household income.
Decision signal 3
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Wibaux County's 0.61% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 70%).
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Montana counties by effective rate
Wibaux County ranks #34 of 56 counties in Montana by effective rate (39% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Wibaux 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.
A falling rate took the edge off
Wibaux County's effective rate fell 16.0% across the 4-year span while its median home value fell 8.4%, leaving the median bill 23.0% lower at $598. That rate move is larger than the one in 69% of counties, so a good deal of the market's rise never reached the bill.
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 $777 in 2020 to $598 in 2024, a fall of 23%. 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: 219 of 334 owner-occupied homes (65.6%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Above-median earnings meet a slightly-below-median rate, and the median bill amounts to 0.9% of median household income. That is the comfortable middle of this dataset, and comfortable middles are easy to overlook when only rankings get published.
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 Wibaux County fell from $777 to $598, a change of -23.0%. 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 Wibaux County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Wibaux County homeowners, 219 of 334 owner-occupied homes (65.6%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 65.6% (219)
- $800 to $1,499 18.0% (60)
- $1,500 to $1,999 0.9% (3)
- $2,000 to $2,999 4.5% (15)
- $3,000 or more 5.1% (17)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
20 homes here (6.0%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Montana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
In Wibaux County, mortgaged homeowners pay 23% more than those without a mortgage, a gap that typically tracks higher home values rather than a different tax rate.
Wibaux County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Wibaux County's LIGHT ACS 2024 figure.
Wibaux County's median bill is 78% below the Montana median and 70% below the U.S. median.
Below Montana on both measures
Wibaux County's effective rate runs 15% under the Montana median and its bill 78% 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 $598 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the Montana norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Wibaux County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Wibaux County | Montana Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Very low bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Below-median rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Very light income burden | 0.9% | - | - |
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.
Wibaux County is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Montana counties.
Wibaux County bill trail · LIGHT
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $598 -8.6% | 0.61% |
| 2023 | $654 -6.6% | 0.71% |
| 2022 | $700 -14.8% | 0.69% |
| 2021 | $822 +5.8% | 0.77% |
| 2020 | $777 | 0.72% |
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.
Wibaux County: tax takes only 0.9% of income
Counties near Wibaux County's median bill
On effective rate, Wibaux County sits nearest St. Clair County (MO), Pulaski County (MO), Bates County (MO).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Amite County (MS), Wichita County (KS), Hoonah-Angoon Census Area (AK).
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 Wibaux County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Wibaux 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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Wibaux County bill FAQs
- How does Wibaux County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Wibaux County run far below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.61% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Wibaux County?
- Property taxes in Wibaux County run well below the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 0.9% of the $67,462 median household income.
- What is the average property tax in Wibaux County, Montana?
- The median annual property tax in Wibaux County is $598, an effective rate of 0.61% on a $98,600 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Wibaux County?
- Wibaux County, Montana scores A (87/100) 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 income room at A+ (0.9%). 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 Wibaux County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Wibaux County dropped sharply 23.0% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $777 to $598, 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 Wibaux County's LIGHT bill
Wibaux County's $598 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 0.9% of Wibaux County's $67,462 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Wibaux 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: 0.61%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $598/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Wibaux County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Wibaux County (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Haskell County, OK
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Wibaux County at $598/yr; rate 0.43% vs Wibaux County 0.61%.
Hancock County, TN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $599/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.45% vs Wibaux County 0.61%.
Lee County, SC
ABS(median_tax) peer · $599/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.57% vs Wibaux County 0.61%.
Wirt County, WV
ABS(median_tax) peer · $597/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.52% vs Wibaux County 0.61%.
Montana county set
State ACS overview for every published Montana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Wibaux County stamps QUIET · 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 Wibaux County (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.