Property Tax & Income in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut
Western Connecticut Planning Region has an effective property tax rate of 1.42%. On the median home value of $652,900, that's roughly $9,295 per year. Median household income is $128,188.
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 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Connecticut (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.42% | 1.67% |
| Median home value1 | $652,900 | — |
| 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 Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT
In Western Connecticut Planning Region, the median annual property tax bill comes to $9,295 against a median household income of $128,188 — meaning property taxes absorb roughly 7.3 cents of every household dollar. With a median home value of $652,900 and an effective rate of 1.424%, the county sits below Connecticut's statewide median rate of 1.674%, and ranks eighth of the state's nine counties. Per-capita income reaches $82,266, which helps soften what the tax bill demands each year. Nationally, the picture differs sharply: the median effective rate is 0.794%, far under what homeowners here pay. Still, the gap between local earnings and the tax owed is narrower than the state average suggests, since incomes in this region run high enough to cover a bill that would strain households elsewhere.