Property Tax in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

What the Tangipahoa Parish numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Tangipahoa Parish homeowners pay more than $887 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 $204,600, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 0.43%. 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.

Tangipahoa Parish by the numbers

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

Tangipahoa Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #21 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #15 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #10 of 64 (135,218 residents)
• Population density rank: #13 of 64 (171 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #21 of 64 (791 sq mi, 1.8% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $74; per $1,000 of home value: $0.43

How Tangipahoa Parish compares

Set against its state, Tangipahoa Parish's median bill of $887 is about 23% lower than the Louisiana median ($1,146). Against the country as a whole it is about 70% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #21 of 64 Louisiana counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Tangipahoa Parish's median home, at $204,600, ranks #15 by value in Louisiana, while its derived rate of 0.43% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Tangipahoa Parish: the median bill works out to about $74 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $434 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 135,218 people — the #10 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 791 square miles, a density of about 171 people per square mile. Its median home value, $204,600, ranks #15 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 2525 record a higher median tax bill than Tangipahoa Parish — it sits in the top 81% nationally. The county holds roughly 2.9% of Louisiana's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $204,600 versus $208,700), and a decade at the derived rate of 0.43% adds up to about 4.34% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, West Carroll Parish, medians $199 — $688 less than Tangipahoa Parish per year.

Counties nearest Tangipahoa Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Tangipahoa Parish and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Tangipahoa Parish in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Tangipahoa Parish ($887) ranks #8 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Kendall County, Illinois (135,053 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $7,556 on a median home value of $298,900 — $6,669 less than Tangipahoa Parish pays.

Tangipahoa Parish's nearest population neighbours within Louisiana are Ouachita Parish (158,916 residents, median tax $1,016 on a median value of $183,000); Livingston Parish (145,583 residents, median tax $1,079 on a median value of $218,900); Bossier Parish (129,134 residents, median tax $1,380 on a median value of $215,100); Ascension Parish (128,593 residents, median tax $1,419 on a median value of $265,300). 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

As an illustration of the arithmetic: at Tangipahoa Parish's derived rate of 0.43%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $1,736 a year. That is only an illustration using the derived rate — a real bill is computed from the property's assessed value, its exemptions, and the combined rates of its specific taxing districts, so it can be higher or lower.

The usual sequence is: the local assessor values the property; exemptions are applied; the taxable value is multiplied by the combined local rates; and the county bills and collects the tax, distributing it to the schools, municipalities and districts that levied it.

Illustrative bills in Tangipahoa Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.43% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Tangipahoa 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 Tangipahoa Parish

Most successful appeals are won on facts, not arguments. Start with the property record card held by the Tangipahoa Parish 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 Louisiana counties

• Bossier Parish, LA — $1,380
• Ascension Parish, LA — $1,419
• Rapides Parish, LA — $1,024
• Livingston Parish, LA — $1,079
• Ouachita Parish, LA — $1,016
• Terrebonne Parish, LA — $852

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