20 states with the highest property taxes

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Property tax rates vary significantly across the country, and with a 2.06% swing between the highest and the lowest effective real-estate tax rates, where you live can mean an appreciable difference in the amount of property tax you will pay.

The top five states in the ranking have an average effective real-estate tax rate of 2.02%. The average annual tax rate in these states on a $281,900 home — the median home value in the country as of 2022, the year of the most recent available data — is $5,705.

Scroll through to see which states are in the top 20 and how they compare.

Source: WalletHub

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