Property Tax in Mohave County, Arizona

What the Mohave County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Mohave County homeowners pay more than $1,229 a year and half pay less. The exact bill for any one home depends on its assessed value, exemptions, and which school, municipal and special districts cover it.

Set against the median home value of $253,200, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 0.48%. That rate is an estimate computed from the two medians — no county publishes a rate calculated this way — but it adjusts for home prices, which makes comparisons between counties more meaningful.

The key figures for Mohave County

For context, the Arizona medians are $1,858 of tax on $358,900 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Mohave County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Arizona: #10 of 15 counties
• Median home value rank in Arizona: #6 of 15
• Population rank in Arizona: #5 of 15 (217,420 residents)
• Population density rank: #8 of 15 (16 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Arizona: #2 of 15 (13,332 sq mi, 11.7% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $102; per $1,000 of home value: $0.48

How Mohave County compares

Set against its state, Mohave County's median bill of $1,229 is about 34% lower than the Arizona median ($1,858). Against the country as a whole it is about 59% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #10 of 15 Arizona counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Mohave County's median home, at $253,200, ranks #6 by value in Arizona, while its derived rate of 0.48% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Mohave County: the median bill works out to about $102 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $485 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 217,420 people — the #5 most populous county in Arizona, spread over 13,332 square miles, a density of about 16 people per square mile. Its median home value, $253,200, ranks #6 among the state's 15 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 2054 record a higher median tax bill than Mohave County — it sits in the top 66% nationally. The county holds roughly 3.0% of Arizona's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $253,200 versus $358,900), and a decade at the derived rate of 0.48% adds up to about 4.85% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, Greenlee County, medians $489 — $740 less than Mohave County per year.

Counties nearest Mohave County in the Arizona ranking

Mohave County and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Mohave County in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Mohave County ($1,229) ranks the lowest by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Yolo County, California (217,782 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $4,567 on a median home value of $593,800 — $3,338 less than Mohave County pays.

Staying within Arizona, the counties nearest Mohave County by population are Pinal County (449,219 residents, median tax $1,615 on a median value of $312,100); Yavapai County (241,656 residents, median tax $1,734 on a median value of $392,900); Yuma County (207,685 residents, median tax $1,281 on a median value of $195,700); Coconino County (144,643 residents, median tax $2,008 on a median value of $413,200). The spread in their median bills — all under the same state framework — shows how much of the property tax burden is decided county by county and district by district.

How the tax is worked out

The bill is built in stages. First the assessor puts a market value on the property. Exemptions — a homestead exemption above all — then reduce the taxable amount. Finally the combined local rate is applied. To see the scale: at the county's derived rate of 0.48%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $485 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $1,940. Real bills use the official assessment and district rates, not this derived figure, so treat the example as a sense of scale only.

Illustrative bills in Mohave County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.48% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Mohave County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.52% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Mohave County

Most successful appeals are won on facts, not arguments. Start with the property record card held by the Mohave County assessor: wrong square footage, an extra room, or a missing homestead exemption are common and fixable. Next, line your assessed value up against recent sales of genuinely similar homes nearby. Many disputes end at an informal conversation with the assessor's office; if yours does not, file the formal appeal with the review board named on your notice before its deadline, evidence attached, and keep paying the bill in the meantime so penalties do not build up.

More Arizona counties

• Yuma County, AZ — $1,281
• Yavapai County, AZ — $1,734
• Coconino County, AZ — $2,008
• Cochise County, AZ — $1,325
• Navajo County, AZ — $1,126
• Apache County, AZ — $574

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