Lancaster, PA — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
In ZIP code 17568, near Lancaster, households face a combined sales tax rate of 6.00% on purchases, while the county-level effective property tax rate comes to 1.32%. That property figure applies against whatever home value a buyer carries, so the annual bill scales directly with price. Sales tax, by contrast, hits spending rather than ownership, touching groceries, goods, and most everyday transactions. Together the two rates shape what a household keeps after housing costs and consumption. Income earned here stretches against both, since the same paycheck covers a property tax tied to assessed value and a sales tax applied at checkout across Lancaster-area businesses.