Property Tax & Income in Copper River Census Area, Alaska
Copper River Census Area has an effective property tax rate of 0.07%. On the median home value of $292,800, that's roughly $199 per year. Median household income is $79,250.
What you'll pay, at a glance
Property taxes are the largest local tax most homeowners pay. The effective rate measures the real tax bill as a share of home value — a more useful number than the nominal “mill rate,” because assessment practices vary county to county.
| Metric | Copper River Census Area | Alaska (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.07% | 0.69% |
| Median home value1 | $292,800 | — |
| State income tax3 | No state income tax | No state income tax |
| State sales tax3 | 1.82% combined | 1.82% combined |
How this is calculated
The effective property tax rate is the median real-estate tax bill divided by the median home value — both for owner-occupied homes, from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 5-year estimates)1. Median income is also from the ACS1. Federal and state income-tax figures use IRS2 and Tax Foundation3 data.
About Copper River Census Area, AK
With a median household income of $79,250 in the Copper River Census Area, the median annual property tax bill of $199 works out to roughly a quarter of one percent of what a household earns. That ratio reflects an effective rate of just 0.068 percent on a median home value of $292,800, the lowest of Alaska's 28 county equivalents. Statewide, the median rate is 0.689 percent, and nationally it's 0.794 percent, so Copper River sits well beneath both benchmarks. Per-capita income here reaches $41,400. The area's communities include Chitina, Copper Center, and Gakona, scattered across a sparsely populated stretch of south-central Alaska. Homeowners in places like Copper Center keep nearly all of their earnings after the tax collector's share, a pattern shaped by the region's limited local government and low population density rather than any single policy choice.