Below is a table of the median property bill by state. This information is from the US Census 2007 American Community Survey data.
| Alabama | $ 351 |
| Alaska | $ 2,346 |
| Arizona | $ 1,201 |
| Arkansas | $ 492 |
| California | $ 2,697 |
| Colorado | $ 1,348 |
| Connecticut | $ 4,332 |
| Delaware | $ 981 |
| District of Columbia | $ 1,807 |
| Florida | $ 1,859 |
| Georgia | $ 1,217 |
| Hawaii | $ 1,249 |
| Idaho | $ 1,185 |
| Illinois | $ 3,187 |
| Indiana | $ 1,181 |
| Iowa | $ 1,482 |
| Kansas | $ 1,518 |
| Kentucky | $ 797 |
| Louisiana | $ 223 |
| Maine | $ 1,801 |
| Maryland | $ 2,434 |
| Massachusetts | $ 3,327 |
| Michigan | $ 2,123 |
| Minnesota | $ 1,927 |
| Mississippi | $ 453 |
| Missouri | $ 1,179 |
| Montana | $ 1,385 |
| Nebraska | $ 2,117 |
| Nevada | $ 1,640 |
| New Hampshire | $ 4,366 |
| New Jersey | $ 6,072 |
| New Mexico | $ 789 |
| New York | $ 3,472 |
| North Carolina | $ 1,099 |
| North Dakota | $ 1,522 |
| Ohio | $ 1,792 |
| Oklahoma | $ 736 |
| Oregon | $ 2,053 |
| Pennsylvania | $ 2,171 |
| Rhode Island | $ 3,355 |
| South Carolina | $ 770 |
| South Dakota | $ 1,537 |
| Tennessee | $ 902 |
| Texas | $ 2,241 |
| Utah | $ 1,246 |
| Vermont | $ 3,183 |
| Virginia | $ 1,754 |
| Washington | $ 2,454 |
| West Virginia | $ 443 |
| Wisconsin | $ 2,894 |
| Wyoming | $ 874 |
| Puerto Rico | $ 111 |
The census tables I found actually gave separate medians for homes with mortgages and homes without mortgages. I took a weighted average of the two median values to find the median for the total.
Additional resources:
- New York Times article State-by-State Property-Tax Rates
- MSN article on Property taxes: Where does your state rank?
- National Association of Home Builders has Effective Property Tax Rates by county from 2000 census data and a report with 2005 ACS data : Residential Real Estate Tax Rates in the American Community Survey
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