Property Tax & Income in Wayne County, Nebraska
Wayne County has an effective property tax rate of 1.12%. On the median home value of $221,600, that's roughly $2,486 per year. Median household income is $66,215.
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 | Wayne County | Nebraska (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.12% | 1.27% |
| Median home value1 | $221,600 | — |
| 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 Wayne County, NE
Wayne County's effective property tax rate of 1.122% sits below Nebraska's statewide median of 1.267%, placing it 67th among the state's 93 counties. That ranking signals a lighter-than-average load within Nebraska, though the gap is narrow enough that homeowners in Carroll and Winside still face bills shaped largely by local levies. Against the national median of 0.794%, however, the county's rate runs noticeably higher, a common pattern across Nebraska. On a median home value of $221,600, the annual real-estate tax bill comes to $2,486. With median household income at $66,215 and per-capita income of $32,387, that bill equals roughly 3.8% of household income — a meaningful slice, but one tempered by the county's below-average standing inside its own state.