Property Tax in Bossier Parish, Louisiana

What the Bossier Parish numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Bossier Parish homeowners pay more than $1,380 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 $215,100, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 0.64%. 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.

Bossier Parish by the numbers

*Estimate derived from Census medians (tax ÷ value), not an official rate.

Bossier Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #6 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #12 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #11 of 64 (129,134 residents)
• Population density rank: #14 of 64 (154 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #17 of 64 (839 sq mi, 1.9% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $115; per $1,000 of home value: $0.64

How Bossier Parish compares

Of the 64 Louisiana counties with published data, 5 have a higher median property tax bill than Bossier Parish's $1,380, putting the county at #6 in the state. Its bill is about 20% higher than the state median of $1,146 and about 54% lower than the national median of $2,969.

Rates and values pull in opposite directions: an expensive housing market can produce big bills at ordinary rates. Here the derived rate is 0.64%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #12 within Louisiana.

Some extra context for Bossier Parish: the median bill works out to about $115 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $642 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 129,134 people — the #11 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 839 square miles, a density of about 154 people per square mile. Its median home value, $215,100, ranks #12 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Nationally, Bossier Parish's median bill of $1,380 ranks #1818 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 58% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 2.8% of Louisiana's population, its median home value is about 3% above the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 6.42% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Bossier Parish to the most expensive county, Orleans Parish ($2,428), is $1,048 a year.

Counties nearest Bossier Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Bossier Parish and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Bossier Parish in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Bossier Parish ($1,380) ranks #7 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Clarke County, Georgia (129,267 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $2,444 on a median home value of $271,900 — $1,064 less than Bossier Parish pays.

Bossier Parish's nearest population neighbours within Louisiana are Livingston Parish (145,583 residents, median tax $1,079 on a median value of $218,900); Tangipahoa Parish (135,218 residents, median tax $887 on a median value of $204,600); Ascension Parish (128,593 residents, median tax $1,419 on a median value of $265,300); Rapides Parish (128,470 residents, median tax $1,024 on a median value of $179,100). Comparing them is a reminder that even inside one state's rules, the bill follows local home values and local district rates more than anything decided at the state level.

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 0.64%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $642 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $2,568. 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 Bossier Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.64% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Bossier Parish — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.55% 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 Bossier Parish

If your bill looks wrong, work through these steps:

1. Get your property record card from the assessor and check the basics — living area, lot size, bedrooms, condition, and any exemptions you should have.
2. Compare your assessed value with recent sale prices of similar homes in Bossier Parish.
3. Talk to the assessor's office informally first; clear errors are often fixed without a hearing.
4. If needed, file a formal appeal with the local review board before the deadline on your assessment notice, with your evidence attached.
5. Keep paying the bill as issued while the appeal runs, unless your notice says otherwise — unpaid taxes accrue penalties regardless of an appeal.

More Louisiana counties

• Ascension Parish, LA — $1,419
• Rapides Parish, LA — $1,024
• Tangipahoa Parish, LA — $887
• Livingston Parish, LA — $1,079
• Terrebonne Parish, LA — $852
• Ouachita Parish, LA — $1,016

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