Property Tax & Income in Washington County, New York
Washington County has an effective property tax rate of 2.01%. On the median home value of $196,200, that's roughly $3,946 per year. Median household income is $73,495.
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 | Washington County | New York (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 2.01% | 2.04% |
| Median home value1 | $196,200 | — |
| 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 Washington County, NY
Washington County's 2.011% effective property tax rate sits just under New York's statewide median of 2.040%, placing it 34th among the state's 62 counties. That ranking signals a fairly middle-of-the-road position within New York, where property taxes run well above what most Americans pay. The national median effective rate is only 0.794%, so a homeowner near Cambridge — among the county's principal communities — faces a rate roughly two and a half times the countrywide figure. On a median home value of $196,200, that works out to an annual real-estate tax bill of $3,946. With median household income at $73,495 and per-capita income of $36,806, property taxes take a meaningful bite out of local earnings. The takeaway: Washington County is slightly cheaper than New York as a whole, yet still carries the heavy tax load characteristic of the state.