Property Tax & Income in Perry County, Pennsylvania
Perry County has an effective property tax rate of 1.21%. On the median home value of $236,400, that's roughly $2,859 per year. Median household income is $79,444.
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 | Perry County | Pennsylvania (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.21% | 1.27% |
| Median home value1 | $236,400 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 3.07% | top rate 3.07% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.34% combined | 6.34% 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 Perry County, PA
Perry County's 1.209% effective property tax rate sits below Pennsylvania's statewide median of 1.269%, a small but meaningful gap that places the county 39th among the state's 67 counties. Against the national median of 0.794%, however, Perry County homeowners pay a noticeably higher share of their property's value each year. The median home here is valued at $236,400, producing an annual tax bill of $2,859, set against a median household income of $79,444 and per-capita income of $39,403. Communities such as Blain, Elliottsburg, and Ickesburg anchor this largely rural county. What this signals is a market where housing remains more affordable than in many Pennsylvania counties, yet the tax rate itself runs above what most American homeowners experience, so buyers weighing a move here should expect property taxes to claim a somewhat larger slice of their budget than the national norm implies.