#1New Town
Mountrail County · 2,715 peopleMedian yearly bill·0.63% of the median home value
New Town, #1 on this list · Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0North Dakota rankings · Property tax
Towns with the lowest property taxes in North Dakota
New Town has the lowest property-tax bills of North Dakota’s 21 towns of 2,500+: homeowners’ median bill is $1,307 a year (Census ACS 2020–2024). The typical town’s median bill here is $2,578.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024: the median yearly real-estate tax bill homeowners pay. The survey reports bills of $10,000 or more only as “$10,000+”, so those towns are listed below the list, not ranked. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1$1,307
#2Devils Lake
Ramsey County · 7,333 peopleMedian yearly bill·1.12% of the median home value
#3Williston
Williams County · 29,522 peopleMedian yearly bill·0.69% of the median home value
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Which North Dakota town has the lowest property taxes?
New Town (Mountrail County): homeowners’ median bill is $1,307 a year. Devils Lake ($1,851) and Williston ($1,974) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the median yearly property-tax bill homeowners report to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024), lowest first. Towns with the same bill share a rank (T). The share of home value is the bill divided by the median home value, both from the survey. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns of 2,500+ that TownRatings grades with a reported bill under $10,000 (21 in North Dakota); bills of $10,000+ can’t be told apart, so those towns are listed separately. Smaller towns show their bill on their Cost of living page. Every town is on the North Dakota page.
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