NBR: Property Taxes

CNJ4EVA · November 2013

I've been contemplating how ridiculous property taxes are in my area. I'm curious about the numbers in different areas.

Where do you live and what do you pay in property taxes each year?

If you'd rather not share your own specifics (or like myself, you don't own), what's the ballpark in your area?

CNJ4EVA · November 2013

I live on Long Island in NY. Suffolk County taxes average about $10K a year. Nassau (the other county on Long Island) is even higher.

emmy236 · November 2013

I'm originally from NY too and we honestly couldn't afford a house there, at least not a nice house. Maybe a condo. We live in NC now and taxes are much less. I think a break down is roughly 1-1.5% of the value of your house. So a $200,000 house would be about $2,000 a year give or take depending on the county. We live in one of the more expensive counties so we're a little over 1%. Hope that helps

Oohgurl · November 2013

I am an hour from Detroit and pay about 5%, a block over, same school district, is about 7.5 %.

edit: because Jack decided I was done with that post before I did.

KLJ3 · November 2013

I live in the Catskill region of upstate NY and our property taxes (in the village) are roughly 2.9%, or $3500 in our case.

HZ2012 · November 2013

I live in Philly but rent. We are house hunting in cherry hill nj and the taxes are ridiculous. For a $300k house it's about $10-13k a year.

amcongdon · November 2013

I live in Minneapolis and we pay $2500 or about 1.45%

mammie · November 2013

I live in South western Ont. Canada. I pay about 1.25%

snowgirl427 · November 2013

We are in Fl. We own 5 acres and pay the equivalent of about 1.5% of what the house is worth .

ALP514 · November 2013

We live in NY. About 15-20 min outside NYC in Westchester County. Our taxes are $17,000. Needless to say we're house hunting in CT and NJ because taxes are just ridiculous here and the school system where we live isn't even that great.

LN1024 · November 2013

We just bought in Washington, and the property taxes are about 1% of the house's worth in that county. The home we own in upstate New York is a little higher than that.

tee18 · November 2013

In my area of CA we pay 4k for a 300k house.

CNJ4EVA · November 2013

ALP514 said:
We live in NY. About 15-20 min outside NYC in Westchester County. Our taxes are $17,000. Needless to say we're house hunting in CT and NJ because taxes are just ridiculous here and the school system where we live isn't even that great.

Geez, that's insane!

ALP514 · November 2013

CNJ4EVA said:

We live in NY. About 15-20 min outside NYC in Westchester County. Our taxes are $17,000. Needless to say we're house hunting in CT and NJ because taxes are just ridiculous here and the school system where we live isn't even that great.
Geez, that's insane!

Absolutely crazy. We do live in a nice quiet area but the sick part is compared to other towns next to ours it isn't that bad. We're looking in really nice areas of NJ and taxes are at least half of that. We are literally getting robbed.

pnutg · November 2013

Wow, ours is cheap in comparison. We live in a northern Michigan resort town, which is fairly expensive as far as MI is concerned. I just did the math and our taxes are less than 1% of what our house is worth.

RoxZ32 · November 2013

I live about 45 min west of Detroit and we pay approx. $2,000/year.

bumpuser8130818 · November 2013

Ours is 3.6% of the cost of our house. We pay for the better school district, pretty much.
ETA Chicago suburb

MrsM1111 · November 2013

3.9% in Orange County CA. We are in a beach community and have a great school district.

kmcd23 · November 2013

We pay about 1% on our home in Virginia Beach. Luckily, our tax assessment is lower than market value by a lot, so we don't end up paying as much as we expected.

PumpkinAndThePeanut · November 2013

Trish625 said:
Ours is 3.6% of the cost of our house. We pay for the better school district, pretty much.
ETA Chicago suburb

I'm also in the Chicago suburbs and we have good schools but my taxes are about 2% of the cost of my house. I'm curious which burb you're in, @Trish625!

jesselayne8 · November 2013

I am in northern KY and pay 3%. We are supposedly in the #1 school district in the state. If you go 10-20 min south then you only pay 1-1.5%.

emmy236 · November 2013

maymomNY said:
In Albany a house going for 150, 000 pays about 5000-6000. Ridiculous.

Both DH and I are originally from Albany and we couldn't afford to move back to Albany county. My sister eventually bought in the Shen school district in Saratoga county. DHs parents sold their house and moved to Virginia and they pay 1/3 of what they did back in NY.

DiFazette · November 2013

LN1024 said:

We just bought in Washington, and the property taxes are about 1% of the house's worth in that county. The home we own in upstate New York is a little higher than that.

@LN1024 - are you relocating from NC?

bumpuser8130818 · November 2013

PumpkinAndThePeanut said:

Ours is 3.6% of the cost of our house. We pay for the better school district, pretty much. ETA Chicago suburb
I'm also in the Chicago suburbs and we have good schools but my taxes are about 2% of the cost of my house. I'm curious which burb you're in, @Trish625!

YGPM

LN1024 · November 2013

DiFazette said:

LN1024 said:

We just bought in Washington, and the property taxes are about 1% of the house's worth in that county. The home we own in upstate New York is a little higher than that.

@LN1024 - are you relocating from NC?

I am @DiFazette Within the next few weeks

c-elizabethf · November 2013

I live in Texas and we are by a really good school district and its about 2-2.3%

PumpkinAndThePeanut · November 2013

Trish625 said:

PumpkinAndThePeanut said:

Trish625 said:
Ours is 3.6% of the cost of our house. We pay for the better school district, pretty much.
ETA Chicago suburb
I'm also in the Chicago suburbs and we have good schools but my taxes are about 2% of the cost of my house. I'm curious which burb you're in, @Trish625!

YGPM

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DiFazette · November 2013

LN1024 said:

DiFazette said:

LN1024 said:

We just bought in Washington, and the property taxes are about 1% of the house's worth in that county. The home we own in upstate New York is a little higher than that.

@LN1024 - are you relocating from NC?

I am @DiFazette Within the next few weeks