Property Tax & Income in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has an effective property tax rate of 1.88%. On the median home value of $317,700, that's roughly $5,983 per year. Median household income is $86,191.
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 | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | Connecticut (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.88% | 1.67% |
| Median home value1 | $317,700 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 6.99% | top rate 6.99% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.35% combined | 6.35% 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 Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
In the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, the effective property tax rate stands at 1.883%, meaning the owner of a home valued at the median $317,700 pays roughly $5,983 each year in real-estate taxes. That bill equals about 6.9% of the area's median household income of $86,191. Connecticut's statewide median rate is 1.674%, so this county sits above the state figure, and it ranks 4th among the state's 9 counties for property tax rate. Nationally, the picture looks steeper still: the U.S. median effective rate is just 0.794%, less than half of what homeowners here contend with. With per-capita income at $46,363, the annual tax obligation claims a meaningful share of household resources, shaping budgets that must absorb this recurring cost alongside other essentials.