Property Tax & Income in Tyler County, West Virginia
Tyler County has an effective property tax rate of 0.57%. On the median home value of $121,300, that's roughly $689 per year. Median household income is $63,693.
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 | Tyler County | West Virginia (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 0.57% | 0.49% |
| Median home value1 | $121,300 | — |
| State income tax3 | top rate 4.82% | top rate 4.82% |
| State sales tax3 | 6.60% combined | 6.60% 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 Tyler County, WV
Tyler County’s effective property tax rate of 0.568% sits above West Virginia’s statewide median of 0.489%, placing it 14th among the state’s 55 counties. That ranking signals a county that taxes property somewhat more heavily than most of its neighbors, though the gap is not extreme. The national median of 0.794% tells a different story: compared with the country as a whole, Tyler County homeowners pay a lower share of their property’s value each year. On a median home value of $121,300, the annual tax bill comes to about $689. With median household income at $63,693 and per-capita income at $35,594, that levy amounts to roughly one percent of a household’s yearly earnings. Communities such as Middlebourne, Sistersville, and Paden City fall within the county, and the pattern suggests a place where property taxes lean slightly above state norms but remain below what many Americans face.