Property Tax & Income in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
Roger Mills County has an effective property tax rate of 0.46%. On the median home value of $157,800, that's roughly $720 per year. Median household income is $66,094.
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 | Roger Mills County | Oklahoma (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.46% | 0.63% |
| Median home value1 | $157,800 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 4.75% | top rate 4.75% |
| State sales tax3 | 9.06% combined | 9.06% 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 Roger Mills County, OK
Buying a home in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, comes with a property tax bill that is unusually easy on the wallet. The county's effective rate of 0.456% sits well below Oklahoma's statewide median of 0.627% and also under the national median of 0.794%, ranking it 71st out of 77 counties in the state for tax rate. That translates into a median annual real-estate tax of about $720 on a median home value of $157,800. With a median household income of $66,094 and per-capita income of $38,423, the yearly tax obligation stays low relative to what households here earn. Anyone considering a move to Cheyenne, Crawford, Durham, or elsewhere in the county can expect housing costs that remain affordable on both the purchase side and the ongoing tax side.