Property Tax & Income in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
Ketchikan Gateway Borough has an effective property tax rate of 0.67%. On the median home value of $393,300, that's roughly $2,619 per year. Median household income is $92,885.
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 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | Alaska (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.67% | 0.69% |
| Median home value1 | $393,300 | — |
| 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 Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK
In Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, the median annual property tax bill of $2,619 lands against a median household income of $92,885, meaning property taxes absorb roughly 2.8 cents of every dollar a household earns. That ratio reflects both the area's 0.666% effective rate and the relatively high incomes found around Ketchikan. Per-capita income sits at $48,971, and the median home value is $393,300. Compared with Alaska's statewide median effective rate of 0.689%, this borough taxes property at a slightly lower percentage, ranking 16th among the state's 28 counties. The national median rate of 0.794% is higher still. For a household bringing in the median income, the annual tax obligation amounts to about one month's earnings, a figure shaped as much by local pay levels as by the tax rate itself.