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Property tax in the 50 largest US counties
The biggest metros by population, with how much homeowners actually pay. Los Angeles, Cook, Harris, Maricopa — the population centers that dominate American life — and what they cost to live in.
| # | County | State | Population | Effective rate | Median bill |
| 1 | Los Angeles County | CA California | 9.8M | 0.75% | $7,012 |
| 2 | Cook County | IL Illinois | 5.0M | 2.19% | $7,120 |
| 3 | Harris County | TX Texas | 4.8M | 2.03% | $6,498 |
| 4 | Maricopa County | AZ Arizona | 4.7M | 0.58% | $2,520 |
| 5 | San Diego County | CA California | 3.3M | 0.65% | $5,948 |
| 6 | Orange County | CA California | 3.2M | 0.69% | $8,280 |
| 7 | Miami-Dade County | FL Florida | 2.8M | 0.97% | $4,710 |
| 8 | Dallas County | TX Texas | 2.6M | 1.85% | $5,114 |
| 9 | Brooklyn County | NY New York | 2.6M | 0.75% | $5,341 |
| 10 | Riverside County | CA California | 2.5M | 0.95% | $5,715 |
| 11 | Clark County | NV Nevada | 2.3M | 0.50% | $2,225 |
| 12 | King County | WA Washington | 2.3M | 0.85% | $6,745 |
| 13 | Queens County | NY New York | 2.3M | 0.87% | $5,817 |
| 14 | Tarrant County | TX Texas | 2.2M | 1.80% | $5,465 |
| 15 | San Bernardino County | CA California | 2.2M | 0.78% | $4,258 |
| 16 | Broward County | FL Florida | 2.0M | 1.03% | $4,380 |
| 17 | Bexar County | TX Texas | 2.0M | 1.75% | $4,977 |
| 18 | Santa Clara County | CA California | 1.9M | 0.65% | $10,100 |
| 19 | Wayne County | MI Michigan | 1.7M | 1.86% | $3,069 |
| 20 | Manhattan County | NY New York | 1.7M | 0.92% | $10,926 |
| 21 | Alameda County | CA California | 1.7M | 0.80% | $8,725 |
| 22 | Middlesex County | MA Massachusetts | 1.6M | 1.13% | $7,345 |
| 23 | Philadelphia County | PA Pennsylvania | 1.6M | 0.95% | $2,100 |
| 24 | Sacramento County | CA California | 1.6M | 0.73% | $4,052 |
| 25 | Palm Beach County | FL Florida | 1.6M | 1.11% | $5,155 |
| 26 | Hillsborough County | FL Florida | 1.6M | 1.09% | $3,760 |
| 27 | Orange County | FL Florida | 1.5M | 1.05% | $3,940 |
| 28 | Suffolk County | NY New York | 1.5M | 2.10% | $10,560 |
| 29 | Nassau County | NY New York | 1.4M | 2.05% | $12,415 |
| 30 | Bronx County | NY New York | 1.4M | 1.08% | $5,171 |
| 31 | Franklin County | OH Ohio | 1.3M | 1.95% | $5,495 |
| 32 | Travis County | TX Texas | 1.3M | 2.10% | $10,815 |
| 33 | Hennepin County | MN Minnesota | 1.3M | 1.26% | $4,145 |
| 34 | Oakland County | MI Michigan | 1.3M | 1.23% | $4,509 |
| 35 | Collin County | TX Texas | 1.3M | 1.68% | $7,800 |
| 36 | Allegheny County | PA Pennsylvania | 1.3M | 2.00% | $3,368 |
| 37 | Cuyahoga County | OH Ohio | 1.2M | 2.55% | $4,445 |
| 38 | Salt Lake County | UT Utah | 1.2M | 0.60% | $3,360 |
| 39 | Wake County | NC North Carolina | 1.2M | 0.91% | $4,100 |
| 40 | Contra Costa County | CA California | 1.2M | 0.81% | $5,873 |
| 41 | Fairfax County | VA Virginia | 1.1M | 1.17% | $8,134 |
| 42 | Mecklenburg County | NC North Carolina | 1.1M | 0.90% | $3,240 |
| 43 | Pima County | AZ Arizona | 1.1M | 0.83% | $2,365 |
| 44 | Fulton County | GA Georgia | 1.1M | 1.10% | $4,310 |
| 45 | Montgomery County | MD Maryland | 1.1M | 0.84% | $4,872 |
| 46 | Denton County | TX Texas | 1.0M | 1.76% | $6,950 |
| 47 | Duval County | FL Florida | 1.0M | 0.96% | $2,835 |
| 48 | Fresno County | CA California | 1.0M | 0.83% | $3,196 |
| 49 | Westchester County | NY New York | 1.0M | 2.20% | $14,670 |
| 50 | Honolulu County | HI Hawaii | 1.0M | 0.30% | $2,490 |
The big-metro paradox
The 50 largest counties are home to roughly 40% of all Americans. They also span the entire range of property tax burden — from Honolulu’s 0.27% rate to Westchester’s 2%+ — meaning a homeowner’s tax bill depends as much on which side of which county line they live on as on their home value.
Notably, the most expensive housing markets don’t always have the highest rates. Los Angeles, San Diego, and Honolulu have low rates because Proposition 13 (CA) and Hawaii’s structural homestead protections limit assessed value growth. Conversely, rust-belt counties like Cook (Chicago) and Wayne (Detroit) compensate for declining tax bases with higher rates.
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Accuracy, sources, and scope. Tax rate data is compiled from publicly available sources — including the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, the Illinois Department of Revenue, the Florida Department of Revenue, the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, the Arizona Department of Revenue, the North Carolina Department of Revenue, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, the Michigan Department of Treasury, the Iowa Department of Revenue and Iowa Department of Management, the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the California State Board of Equalization, individual county appraisal and assessor offices, and the US Census Bureau — and is believed to be accurate as of the "revised" date shown on each page. Rates change annually (and sometimes mid-year) through local budget adoptions, legislative action, and voter-approved measures. Rates displayed reflect the primary tax district of the county seat; rates in other cities, school districts, Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs), Emergency Services Districts (ESDs), Mello-Roos Community Facilities Districts (CFDs), and special taxing units within the same county may be meaningfully higher or lower. Census population figures are from the 2020 Decennial Census and are rounded to the nearest 100.
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