Property Tax & Income in Dawes County, Nebraska
Dawes County has an effective property tax rate of 1.45%. On the median home value of $150,900, that's roughly $2,183 per year. Median household income is $56,280.
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 | Dawes County | Nebraska (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.45% | 1.27% |
| Median home value1 | $150,900 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 4.55% | top rate 4.55% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.98% combined | 6.98% 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 Dawes County, NE
In Dawes County, Nebraska, the median home value of $150,900 carries an annual property tax bill of about $2,183, based on an effective rate of 1.447%. That rate runs higher than Nebraska's statewide median of 1.267%, and the county ranks 15th among the state's 93 counties for property tax rate. Nationally, the median effective rate sits at 0.794%, so buyers here pay a steeper share of home value in taxes than in much of the country. Against a median household income of $56,280 and per-capita income of $32,306, the tax bill amounts to roughly four percent of household earnings. Chadron, the county's largest town, anchors a housing market where purchase prices stay below many national figures even as the tax rate runs above average. For someone weighing a move here, the tradeoff is clear: affordable home prices paired with a comparatively heavy annual tax load.