Average Property Tax Was $3,561, Up 2 Percent with an Effective Tax Rate of 1.14 Percent; Highest Effective Tax Rates in Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, Vermont, Connecticut

IRVINE, Calif. – April 9, 2020 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its 2019 property tax analysis for more than 86 million U.S. single family homes, which shows that property taxes levied on single family homes in 2019 totaled $306.4 billion, up 1 percent from $304.6 billion in 2018 and an average tax amount of $3,561 per home — an effective tax rate of 1.14 percent.

The average property taxes of $3,561 for a single-family home in 2019 was up 2 percent from the average property tax of $3,498 in 2018, and the effective property tax rate of 1.14 percent in 2019 was down from the effective property tax rate of 1.16 percent in 2018.