Property Tax & Income in Davis County, Iowa
Davis County has an effective property tax rate of 1.40%. On the median home value of $161,900, that's roughly $2,269 per year. Median household income is $77,194.
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 | Davis County | Iowa (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.40% | 1.32% |
| Median home value1 | $161,900 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 3.80% | top rate 3.80% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.94% combined | 6.94% 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 Davis County, IA
Davis County’s effective property tax rate of 1.401% sits above Iowa’s statewide median of 1.319%, placing it 29th among the state’s 99 counties. That ranking puts the county in the upper-middle tier for Iowa, where rates tend to run higher than much of the country. Nationally, the gap is wider still: the U.S. median effective rate is 0.794%, so homeowners around Bloomfield and the county’s smaller towns of Drakesville and Floris pay proportionally more than the average American. On a median home value of $161,900, that rate produces an annual tax bill of $2,269. With median household income at $77,194 and per-capita income at $32,800, the tax consumes a meaningful share of household earnings — a signal that local government relies fairly heavily on property taxes to fund services.