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Property taxes are only part of the picture | South Salem Real Estate

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Do you think your state’s property tax burden is too high?

Before you start complaining how high property taxes are in your state, take a look at the charts below to see not only property taxes are in your state, but total taxes.

Your property taxes may be high for a reason — for example, if, like Florida, your state has no income tax.

First, see how property taxes in your state compare with those in the other 49 states. The following chart shows the amount of local and state property taxes collected per capita in each state in 2009.

Property tax collections by state

State	Property tax collections, per capita	Rank
Alabama	$503	50
Alaska	$1,728	10
Arizona	$1,119	32
Arkansas	$549	49
California	$1,465	15
Colorado	$1,277	24
Connecticut	$2,473	2
Delaware	$712	43
Florida	$1,589	13
Georgia	$1,092	34
Hawaii	$983	35
Idaho	$813	40
Illinois	$1,782	9
Indiana	$1,124	31
Iowa	$1,305	22
Kansas	$1,353	19
Kentucky	$663	46
Louisiana	$702	45
Maine	$1,640	11
Maryland	$1,205	27
Massachusetts	$1,874	8
Michigan	$1,452	16
Minnesota	$1,346	20
Mississippi	$793	41
Missouri	$929	37
Montana	$1,301	23
Nebraska	$1,437	17
Nevada	$1,318	21
New Hampshire	$2,240	3
New Jersey	$2,663	1
New Mexico	$606	47
New York	$2,136	5
North Carolina	$867	38
North Dakota	$1,165	29
Ohio	$1,135	30
Oklahoma	$597	48
Oregon	$1,172	28
Pennsylvania	$1,227	25
Rhode Island	$2,018	7
South Carolina	$970	36
South Dakota	$1,111	33
Tennessee	$748	42
Texas	$1,475	14
Utah	$863	39
Vermont	$2,056	6
Virginia	$1,431	18
Washington	$1,226	26
West Virginia	$709	44
Wisconsin	$1,633	12
Wyoming	$2,285	4

Source: taxfoundation.org.

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