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High Property Taxes: Ranking Each State (2022)

by Furnishly | Mar 9, 2022 | Home Improvement

Property taxes can vary greatly from state to state. WalletHub has broken down how much you can expect to pay in each state.

Each year, the average American household spends $2,471 on real-estate property taxes.

To find out who pays the most relative to their state, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its 2022 Property Taxes by State report.

Real-Estate Property Tax Rates by State

Rank (1=Lowest)	State	Effective Real-Estate Tax Rate	Annual Taxes on $217.5K Home*	State Median Home Value	Annual Taxes on Home Priced at State Median Value
1	Hawaii	0.28%	$606	$615,300	$1,715
2	Alabama	0.41%	$895	$142,700	$587
3	Colorado	0.51%	$1,113	$343,300	$1,756
4	Louisiana	0.55%	$1,187	$163,100	$890
5	District of Columbia	0.56%	$1,221	$601,500	$3,378
6	South Carolina	0.57%	$1,238	$162,300	$924
6	Delaware	0.57%	$1,240	$251,100	$1,431
8	West Virginia	0.58%	$1,269	$119,600	$698
9	Nevada	0.60%	$1,310	$267,900	$1,614
10	Wyoming	0.61%	$1,319	$220,500	$1,337
11	Arkansas	0.62%	$1,358	$127,800	$798
12	Utah	0.63%	$1,362	$279,100	$1,748
13	Arizona	0.66%	$1,446	$225,500	$1,499
14	Idaho	0.69%	$1,492	$212,300	$1,456
15	Tennessee	0.71%	$1,548	$167,200	$1,190
16	California	0.76%	$1,644	$505,000	$3,818
17	New Mexico	0.80%	$1,740	$171,400	$1,371
18	Mississippi	0.81%	$1,751	$119,000	$958
19	Virginia	0.82%	$1,779	$273,100	$2,234
20	Montana	0.84%	$1,818	$230,600	$1,928
20	North Carolina	0.84%	$1,833	$172,500	$1,454
22	Indiana	0.85%	$1,853	$141,700	$1,207
23	Kentucky	0.86%	$1,866	$141,000	$1,210
24	Florida	0.89%	$1,934	$215,300	$1,914
25	Oklahoma	0.90%	$1,952	$136,800	$1,228
26	Georgia	0.92%	$2,006	$176,000	$1,623
27	Missouri	0.97%	$2,111	$157,200	$1,526
27	Oregon	0.97%	$2,116	$312,200	$3,037
29	North Dakota	0.98%	$2,138	$193,900	$1,906
29	Washington	0.98%	$2,134	$339,000	$3,326
31	Maryland	1.09%	$2,370	$314,800	$3,430
32	Minnesota	1.12%	$2,429	$223,900	$2,500
33	Alaska	1.19%	$2,599	$270,400	$3,231
34	Massachusetts	1.23%	$2,667	$381,600	$4,679
35	South Dakota	1.31%	$2,857	$167,100	$2,195
36	Maine	1.36%	$2,953	$190,400	$2,585
37	Kansas	1.41%	$3,060	$151,900	$2,137
38	Michigan	1.54%	$3,343	$154,900	$2,381
39	Ohio	1.56%	$3,390	$145,700	$2,271
40	Iowa	1.57%	$3,407	$147,800	$2,315
41	Pennsylvania	1.58%	$3,442	$180,200	$2,852
42	Rhode Island	1.63%	$3,548	$261,900	$4,272
43	New York	1.72%	$3,749	$313,700	$5,407
44	Nebraska	1.73%	$3,754	$155,800	$2,689
45	Texas	1.80%	$3,907	$172,500	$3,099
46	Wisconsin	1.85%	$4,027	$180,600	$3,344
47	Vermont	1.90%	$4,135	$227,700	$4,329
48	Connecticut	2.14%	$4,658	$275,400	$5,898
49	New Hampshire	2.18%	$4,738	$261,700	$5,701
50	Illinois	2.27%	$4,942	$194,500	$4,419
51	New Jersey	2.49%	$5,419	$335,600	$8,362

*$217,500 is the median home value in the U.S. as of 2019, the year of the most recent available data.

Hawaii has the lowest real-estate property taxes, according to WalletHub’s 2022 Property Taxes by State Report.

Key Property Taxes Stats

Hawaii has the lowest real-estate tax, $606, which is 8.9 times lower than in New Jersey, the state with the highest at $5,419.
Blue States have 31.12 percent higher real-estate property taxes, averaging $2,722, than Red States, averaging $2,076.

Methodology

To determine the states with the highest and lowest property taxes, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia by using U.S. Census Bureau data to determine real-estate property tax rates.

To view the full report and your state’s rank, visit wallethub.com.

Refreshing a First-Time Homeowner’s Kitchen

by Furnishly | Oct 5, 2021 | Home Improvement

In this episode, we’re helping first-time homeowner Dawn Nelson, who’s in over her head with her kitchen renovation.

Dawn wanted to take down one wall that separated her three main living areas, the dining room, kitchen and living room. But then realized she removed all the drywall on a load-bearing wall.

Homeowner Dawn Nelson's kitchen before the renovation. — Before, Dawn’s kitchen was dull and just didn’t fit her style.

A contractor helped her fix that mistake, but then she realized that removing the wall also exposed a small patch of old flooring.

We’re going to pick up where the contractor left off, and make this place look great!

Patch of vinyl flooring left over after cabinet was removed from Dawn Nelson's home — Removing a wall and cabinet revealed a patch of flooring that the previous homeowners worked around — and it’s an eyesore that Dawn wants covered up, asap. No problem!

Fill In Ceramic Tile Flooring

Dawn was lucky because the previous homeowner left just enough ceramic tiles to fill this eyesore of vinyl flooring.

The project won’t be difficult because vinyl flooring is the perfect subfloor. That means we don’t have to remove it; we can just install tiles right over the old flooring.

But first, we need to remove some of the ceramic tiles surrounding the hole. They were cut around a cabinet that used to be on the vinyl flooring.

Ceramic tile after shot in Dawn's home. — The new tile in Dawn’s kitchen makes the space more cohesive!

Once the tiles dry overnight, we apply stain-resistant FusionPro Grout from Custom Building Products.

Mounting plate for over-the-range microwave seen in kitchen before microwave's installation — The over-the-range microwave is ready to be installed, but there’s just one problem: it needs to be properly vented to the outside. We will create an access hole to make that happen.

Install Microwave

An over-the-range microwave has been purchased, but it needs to be installed, and more importantly, it needs to be properly vented to the outside. Otherwise, OTR microwaves just recirculate the air in the kitchen, which isn’t healthy.

I drill through the wall to create an access hole for the venting. Then I take a sledgehammer to the home’s exterior to complete that hole.

With the path for the vent clear, Bear and I lift the microwave into its new home and trim off the vent on the outside. I also add a little paint to that vent so it blends right in.