Property Tax in Iberia Parish, Louisiana

What the Iberia Parish numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Iberia Parish pay more than $547, and half pay less. Your own bill is set by your home's assessed value, the exemptions you qualify for, and the local taxing districts your property sits in — so individual bills vary widely around the median.

Dividing the median tax by the median home value gives a derived effective rate of 0.35% for Iberia Parish. It is an estimate built from two survey medians, not the county's official rate, but it is a fair way to compare the local tax burden with other counties where home values are very different.

Iberia Parish by the numbers

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

Iberia Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #33 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #31 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #17 of 64 (69,194 residents)
• Population density rank: #16 of 64 (120 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #41 of 64 (574 sq mi, 1.3% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $46; per $1,000 of home value: $0.35

How Iberia Parish compares

Of the 64 Louisiana counties with published data, 32 have a higher median property tax bill than Iberia Parish's $547, putting the county at #33 in the state. Its bill is about 52% lower than the state median of $1,146 and about 82% 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 0.35%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #31 within Louisiana.

Some extra context for Iberia Parish: the median bill works out to about $46 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $351 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 69,194 people — the #17 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 574 square miles, a density of about 120 people per square mile. Its median home value, $156,000, ranks #31 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Nationally, Iberia Parish's median bill of $547 ranks #2961 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 95% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 1.5% of Louisiana's population, its median home value is about 25% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 3.51% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Iberia Parish to the most expensive county, Orleans Parish ($2,428), is $1,881 a year.

Counties nearest Iberia Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Iberia Parish and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Iberia Parish with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 69,194 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Iberia Parish's median bill of $547 is the lowest.

The closest population match is Ward County, North Dakota (69,232 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $2,785 on a median home value of $259,100 — $2,238 less than Iberia Parish pays.

Inside Louisiana itself, the counties closest to Iberia Parish in population are Lafourche Parish (96,670 residents, median tax $951 on a median value of $190,800); St. Landry Parish (82,128 residents, median tax $425 on a median value of $142,900); Acadia Parish (57,218 residents, median tax $446 on a median value of $146,900); Vermilion Parish (57,031 residents, median tax $538 on a median value of $159,700). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

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 0.35%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $351 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $1,404. 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 Iberia Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.35% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Iberia 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 Iberia Parish

Believe your assessment is too high? The practical order of attack is: obtain your record card and audit it line by line; collect comparable recent sales in Iberia Parish; ask the assessor's office to correct anything plainly wrong; and, if the value still seems off, lodge a formal appeal ahead of the deadline printed on your assessment notice. Windows are short — often 30 to 90 days — and late appeals are usually rejected outright, however strong the case.

More Louisiana counties

• Acadia Parish, LA — $446
• Vermilion Parish, LA — $538
• St. Landry Parish, LA — $425
• St. Charles Parish, LA — $1,475
• St. Martin Parish, LA — $610
• St. Mary Parish, LA — $515

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