Property Tax & Income in Gilpin County, Colorado
Gilpin County has an effective property tax rate of 0.23%. On the median home value of $573,900, that's roughly $1,310 per year. Median household income is $95,361.
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 | Gilpin County | Colorado (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.23% | 0.39% |
| Median home value1 | $573,900 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 4.40% | top rate 4.40% |
| State sales tax3 | 7.89% combined | 7.89% 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 Gilpin County, CO
Gilpin County's effective property tax rate of 0.228% sits well beneath Colorado's statewide median of 0.386%, and it ranks 62nd out of the state's 64 counties — only two counties in Colorado levy a lighter rate. The gap with the national median of 0.794% is wider still. On a median home value of $573,900, that rate yields an annual real-estate tax bill of about $1,310, a figure that looks especially contained against a median household income of $95,361 and per-capita income of $59,765. For homeowners in Black Hawk, Central City, and Rollinsville, the practical signal is that property taxes take a smaller slice of household budgets than they do in most of Colorado and the country at large.