Property Tax & Income in Tripp County, South Dakota
Tripp County has an effective property tax rate of 0.95%. On the median home value of $132,900, that's roughly $1,262 per year. Median household income is $58,987.
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 | Tripp County | South Dakota (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.95% | 1.01% |
| Median home value1 | $132,900 | — |
| State income tax3 | No state income tax | No state income tax |
| State sales tax3 | 6.11% combined | 6.11% 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 Tripp County, SD
Tripp County’s effective property tax rate of 0.950% sits below South Dakota’s statewide median of 1.014%, placing it 46th among the state’s 66 counties. That ranking matters: the county leans lighter on property taxes than most of its South Dakota peers, though the gap is not dramatic. Against the national median of 0.794%, however, Tripp County runs higher, so homeowners here pay more relative to the country as a whole even while beating their own state’s norm. A median home value of $132,900 produces an annual tax bill of about $1,262. With median household income at $58,987 and per-capita income of $33,340, that bill amounts to roughly two percent of household earnings. Colome, the largest of the county’s towns alongside Ideal and Witten, sits within this tax landscape.