Property Tax & Income in Kings County, New York
Kings County has an effective property tax rate of 0.70%. On the median home value of $905,000, that's roughly $6,382 per year. Median household income is $80,263.
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 | Kings County | New York (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.70% | 2.04% |
| Median home value1 | $905,000 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 10.90% | top rate 10.90% |
| State sales tax3 | 8.54% combined | 8.54% 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 Kings County, NY
Kings County sits at the bottom of New York's property tax rankings — 62nd out of 62 counties — with an effective rate of 0.705%, far beneath the statewide median of 2.040%. That gap matters because New York's overall rate is among the steepest in the country, so Brooklyn homeowners pay a notably smaller share of their property's value each year than most other New Yorkers. The national median, 0.794%, also edges above this county's rate. On a median home value of $905,000, the median annual tax bill comes to $6,382, a figure shaped as much by the low rate as by the high property values. With median household income at $80,263 and per-capita income at $47,575, the county's tax structure looks different from what its expensive real estate might otherwise imply. Ozone Park and Brooklyn fall within these boundaries.