Property Tax & Income in Piscataquis County, Maine
Piscataquis County has an effective property tax rate of 0.90%. On the median home value of $170,200, that's roughly $1,537 per year. Median household income is $61,345.
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 | Piscataquis County | Maine (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.90% | 1.04% |
| Median home value1 | $170,200 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 7.15% | top rate 7.15% |
| State sales tax3 | 5.50% combined | 5.50% 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 Piscataquis County, ME
In Piscataquis County, Maine, the median home value sits at $170,200, and the annual property tax bill that goes with it comes to about $1,537. That works out to an effective rate of 0.903%, which lands below Maine's statewide average of 1.042% and places the county 14th among the state's 16 counties. Buyers weighing a move here, perhaps to Abbot or the Brownville area, will find that lower rate paired with home prices well under many parts of the country. Households earning the median income of $61,345 would devote roughly 2.5% of that to property taxes each year. Nationally, the median effective rate is 0.794%, so Piscataquis runs a bit above that benchmark, though its affordable entry prices keep the actual dollar amount owed fairly contained.