Property Tax & Income in Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County has an effective property tax rate of 1.56%. On the median home value of $183,400, that's roughly $2,861 per year. Median household income is $64,094.
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 | Crawford County | Wisconsin (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.56% | 1.36% |
| Median home value1 | $183,400 | — |
| 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 Crawford County, WI
Crawford County's effective property tax rate of 1.560% sits well above both benchmarks that matter here. Wisconsin's statewide median is 1.362%, and the national median is just 0.794%, so homeowners around Prairie Du Chien and the smaller communities of Wauzeka and Eastman pay a noticeably steeper share of their property's value than most Americans. The county ranks 10th of 72 Wisconsin counties on this measure, placing it in the state's higher-tax tier. On a median home value of $183,400, that rate yields an annual bill of $2,861, against a median household income of $64,094 and per-capita income of $34,846. The gap with the national figure is the clearest signal: property taxes here claim a larger slice of household budgets than they do across most of the country, a pattern worth weighing alongside local services and home prices.