Boston, MA — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
In Boston's 02133, per-capita income reaches $153,937, a level that reshapes how property taxes land here. The county-level effective rate of 0.66% means a home assessed at $1 million would carry roughly $6,600 in annual property tax — a figure that high earners can absorb without straining their budgets. That same earning power makes the 6.25% combined sales tax easy to overlook in daily spending. Housing costs remain the real variable, since values in this Boston ZIP climb alongside incomes, but the tax rate itself stays gentle against what residents bring home.