County rate lookup

County Property Tax Lookup

Type a county or partial name (e.g. "Cook", "Los Angeles", "Harris") to find its detail page across all 3,000+ U.S. counties with Census ACS data.

Compiled byPlainPropertyTax Editorial, Property Tax Editorial Team

Searches all 3,000+ U.S. counties with Census ACS 2024 property-tax data. Data is drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey; see our methodology.

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How to Read County Data

Each county detail page shows the median annual property tax, the median home value, and the effective tax rate (the median tax expressed as a percentage of home value). The effective rate is the most useful comparison metric across counties because it normalizes for differences in home prices, a county with a low median tax in dollar terms can still have a high effective rate if home values are also low.

Why Counties Differ Even Within the Same State

Property-tax rates vary at the county and municipal level because each jurisdiction sets its own millage. Two counties in the same state can differ by 2-3x because of school-district funding, special assessments, county-level services, and the ratio of commercial to residential tax base. Rural counties with smaller commercial bases often shift more of the burden to residential property; urban counties with strong commercial corridors can offer lower residential effective rates.

Coverage

Lookup covers all U.S. counties (and equivalent jurisdictions: parishes in Louisiana, boroughs and census areas in Alaska, and independent cities in Virginia). Data is from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, which combines five years of household responses for statistical reliability at small geographies. Some sparsely-populated counties may have suppressed values in the underlying ACS release.

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I can't find my county in the search?

Try searching by just the county name without "County" (e.g. "Cook" instead of "Cook County"), or search by state name to browse all counties in that state. If a county genuinely has no result, its ACS data may be suppressed due to small population, very sparsely populated counties are sometimes excluded from the Census Bureau's 5-year estimates for reliability reasons.

How current is the data behind this lookup?

This tool searches all 3,000+ U.S. counties using Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates through 2024. The ACS combines five years of household responses, so it updates annually but always reflects a rolling 5-year window rather than a single-year snapshot.

What counties are included besides the standard 50-state list?

Coverage includes Louisiana parishes, Alaska boroughs and census areas, and independent cities in Virginia, all the county-equivalent jurisdictions the Census Bureau tracks, alongside the District of Columbia.

PlainPropertyTax is rendered directly from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2024.