Property Tax & Income in Douglas County, Wisconsin
Douglas County has an effective property tax rate of 1.26%. On the median home value of $205,800, that's roughly $2,599 per year. Median household income is $75,099.
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 | Douglas County | Wisconsin (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.26% | 1.36% |
| Median home value1 | $205,800 | — |
| 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 Douglas County, WI
Douglas County's 1.263% effective property tax rate sits below Wisconsin's statewide median of 1.362%, placing it 49th among the state's 72 counties. That ranking signals a lighter tax touch than most Wisconsin counties apply. Against the national median of 0.794%, however, the county's rate runs noticeably higher, a gap common across the Upper Midwest. A median home value of $205,800 generates an annual real-estate tax bill of about $2,599. With median household income at $75,099 and per-capita income of $39,586, that bill equals roughly 3.5% of household earnings. Communities such as Lake Nebagamon, Foxboro, and Hawthorne fall within the county, and homeowners there face costs shaped by Wisconsin's relatively heavy reliance on property taxation compared with much of the country.