The 10 Worst Property Tax States | You Never Really Own Your Home

The 10 Worst Property Tax States | You Never Really Own Your Home The typical New Jersey homeowner paid $10,570 in property tax last year. Not the worst bill in the state — the average one. On a house they already own outright. Here's the thing nobody says out loud: the mortgage ends. This doesn't. You make the last payment to the bank, you own the place, and the bill still shows up every single year. Miss enough of them and they sell your house. These are the 10 states where that bill is worst in America, counted down, with the same $300,000 house priced in every one of them so you can compare them honestly. Every rate comes from one table — the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020-2024 — worked out the only honest way: the median tax actually paid, divided by the median home value. One method all the way down. Check it yourself. A correction I make on camera: this channel told you Illinois was worst in America. On the newest data it isn't. New Jersey is, 2.11% to 2.01%. Illinois homeowners didn't get a break — New Jersey got worse faster. And I'm not pretending nobody's doing anything. Texas raised its homestead exemption to $140,000 and the voters passed it 79.47%. Nebraska frontloaded $750 million straight onto the bill. Ohio just passed the biggest overhaul in decades — after somebody tried to delete the tax entirely and came up short. All of that is in here. WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? Drop your state and what you paid last year in the comments. I read them, and I've put figures from that section on screen before. 📘 Appeal your own assessment — the step-by-step guide, same process in every county in America: [EBOOK LINK] 0:00 $10,570 THE TEN (effective rate · median bill · the same $300,000 house) 1. New Jersey 2.11% · $9,590 · $6,330 2. Illinois 2.01% · $5,298 · $6,030 3. Connecticut 1.81% · $6,643 · $5,430 4. New Hampshire 1.66% · $6,667 · $4,980 5. Vermont 1.59% · $5,039 · $4,770 6. New York 1.55% · $6,582 · $4,650 7. Texas 1.49% · $4,232 · $4,470 8. Nebraska 1.49% · $3,549 · $4,470 9. Wisconsin 1.42% · $3,792 · $4,260 10. Iowa 1.39% · $2,897 · $4,170 (11. Ohio 1.31% · $2,822 · $3,930 — just missed, and the one that tried to abolish the whole thing.) SOURCES • US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates • NJ Department of Community Affairs — 2025 statewide average property tax bill • New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute — school funding shares • Vermont Department of Taxes — Dec 2025 education tax forecast; Act 73 • Ballotpedia / Texas Secretary of State — Propositions 13, 11 and 9, Nov 2025 • Nebraska Legislature — LB 34, August 2024 special session • Ohio General Assembly — HB 186 and HB 129; Ohio Capital Journal and Signal Ohio on the June 2026 withdrawal of the abolition petition • Iowa Legislature — 2026 session property tax agreement • NY State Comptroller / Empire Center — the 2011 property tax cap • US Census of Governments — Illinois units of local government • Cook County Treasurer — property tax appeals study Every figure here is either in the sources above or is a multiplication you can do on your own phone. No quote is invented and no number is estimated. Find an error and say so — I corrected one of my own in this episode. #PropertyTax #Homeowners #Taxes