Effective property tax rate by state
1. Find the nominal property tax rate. (If you don’t know your rate, contact your state’s revenue department, which should provide a chart of local rates, and keep in mind that most states levy property taxes at the state level as well as the local level.) If the rate is given in mills, convert it to a percentage. State tax levels indicate both the tax burden and the services a state can afford to provide residents.. States use a different combination of sales, income, excise taxes, and user fees.Some are levied directly from residents and others are levied indirectly. This table includes the per capita tax collected at the state level.