Property Tax & Income in Brown County, Wisconsin
Brown County has an effective property tax rate of 1.38%. On the median home value of $266,000, that's roughly $3,663 per year. Median household income is $79,649.
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 | Brown County | Wisconsin (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.38% | 1.36% |
| Median home value1 | $266,000 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 7.65% | top rate 7.65% |
| State sales tax3 | 5.72% combined | 5.72% 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 Brown County, WI
Someone weighing a move to Brown County, home to Green Bay and smaller communities like De Pere and Greenleaf, would find property taxes running at an effective rate of 1.377 percent. That edges past Wisconsin's statewide median of 1.362 percent, though the county still lands in the middle of the pack, ranking 33rd among the state's 72 counties. On a median home value of $266,000, the annual real-estate tax bill comes to $3,663. With median household income at $79,649 and per-capita income of $42,366, that tax figure amounts to roughly 4.6 percent of a typical household's yearly earnings. Nationally, the picture shifts: the U.S. median effective rate sits at 0.794 percent, far below what buyers here would pay. Home prices remain moderate compared with many metro areas, but the tax rate itself is a real cost to factor into any budget.