Using data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the report’s authors examined residential property taxes in every U.S. county from 2007 to 2011, looking at how much homeowners were paying on average and how that average compared to average home sale prices over the same time period.
The data contained some interesting, though perhaps not surprising, revelations about Wisconsin’s property taxes:
Dane County levied the state’s highest average property tax in dollars — $4,279 — and ranked 61st among all U.S. counties examined in the report.
Related: Madison’s 16% property tax increase since 2007 while median household income down 7.6%.
Madison is planning a maintenance referendum for 2015, which will further increase property taxes. Madison spends about double the national average per student, around $15,000 annually.
Considering Madison school district boundaries vis a vis the planned referendum.
Madison taxpayers have supported additional maintenance and operating spending over the years, yet reading results remain disastrous.