Property Tax & Income in Foster County, North Dakota
Foster County has an effective property tax rate of 1.19%. On the median home value of $167,500, that's roughly $1,991 per year. Median household income is $87,831.
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 | Foster County | North Dakota (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.19% | 0.92% |
| Median home value1 | $167,500 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 2.50% | top rate 2.50% |
| State sales tax3 | 7.09% combined | 7.09% 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 Foster County, ND
Foster County’s effective property tax rate of 1.189% sits well above North Dakota’s statewide median of 0.916% and nearly half again the national median of 0.794%. That gap places the county third among all 53 North Dakota counties for tax rate, a ranking that signals a comparatively heavy reliance on property taxes locally. A median home value of $167,500 produces a median annual bill of $1,991, a figure that lands differently depending on household finances: with median household income at $87,831, the tax equals roughly 2.3% of a typical household’s yearly earnings, while per-capita income of $46,993 tells a similar story. Communities like Glenfield, Sutton, and Courtenay anchor this rural county, where homeowners should expect to pay noticeably more relative to home value than the average American or North Dakotan.