Property Tax & Income in Tuscola County, Michigan
Tuscola County has an effective property tax rate of 1.21%. On the median home value of $149,500, that's roughly $1,812 per year. Median household income is $63,811.
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 | Tuscola County | Michigan (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.21% | 1.09% |
| Median home value1 | $149,500 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 4.25% | top rate 4.25% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.00% combined | 6.00% 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 Tuscola County, MI
In Tuscola County, Michigan, the median home value sits at $149,500, and the annual property tax bill that goes with it averages $1,812. That works out to an effective rate of 1.212%, which lands above Michigan's statewide median of 1.087% and places the county 25th among the state's 83 counties. Buyers weighing a move here, perhaps to Caro or one of the smaller communities like Akron or Deford, get lower sticker prices than in many parts of the country, though the tax rate itself runs higher than both the state and national benchmarks — the U.S. median is 0.794%. With median household income at $63,811 and per-capita income of $32,616, the yearly tax bill amounts to a fairly contained share of what families bring in, which helps offset the steeper rate.