Property Tax & Income in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
Yakutat City and Borough has an effective property tax rate of 0.67%. On the median home value of $219,400, that's roughly $1,463 per year. Median household income is $85,000.
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 | Yakutat City and Borough | Alaska (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.67% | 0.69% |
| Median home value1 | $219,400 | — |
| 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 Yakutat City and Borough, AK
In Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, the median annual property tax bill comes to $1,463 against a median household income of $85,000. That works out to roughly 1.7 cents of every household dollar going toward real-estate taxes. Per-capita income in the borough sits at $49,131, and the median home value is $219,400, taxed at an effective rate of 0.667%. Yakutat, the borough's principal community, anchors a county whose rate falls below Alaska's statewide median of 0.689%, ranking 15th among the state's 28 counties. Nationally, the median effective rate is 0.794%, so local property taxes here claim a smaller slice of income than the countrywide norm. The gap between the $1,463 bill and the $85,000 median household income shapes how housing costs sit alongside everyday expenses in this southeast Alaska borough.