Property Tax & Income in Grant County, Kansas
Grant County has an effective property tax rate of 1.51%. On the median home value of $110,300, that's roughly $1,670 per year. Median household income is $66,476.
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 | Grant County | Kansas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| Median home value1 | $110,300 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 5.58% | top rate 5.58% |
| State sales tax3 | 8.71% combined | 8.71% 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 Grant County, KS
Grant County’s effective property tax rate of 1.514% sits just above Kansas’s statewide median of 1.506%, placing it 51st among the state’s 105 counties — essentially the midpoint. Compared with the national median of 0.794%, however, the county’s rate is nearly double. That gap matters because it shapes what owners actually pay: with a median home value of $110,300, the median annual real-estate tax bill comes to $1,670. Households in Grant County earn a median of $66,476, while per-capita income is $36,400. Ulysses, the largest of the county’s principal towns alongside Satanta and Johnson, anchors a community where property taxes take a noticeably larger share of value than in most of the country, even though the rate stays close to the Kansas norm.