Property Tax in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

What the Terrebonne Parish numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Terrebonne Parish pay more than $852, 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 0.45% for Terrebonne 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.

The key figures for Terrebonne Parish

For context, the Louisiana medians are $1,146 of tax on $208,700 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Terrebonne Parish at a glance

• Median tax rank in Louisiana: #23 of 64 counties
• Median home value rank in Louisiana: #20 of 64
• Population rank in Louisiana: #14 of 64 (107,362 residents)
• Population density rank: #23 of 64 (87 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Louisiana: #5 of 64 (1,229 sq mi, 2.8% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $71; per $1,000 of home value: $0.45

How Terrebonne Parish compares

Of the 64 Louisiana counties with published data, 22 have a higher median property tax bill than Terrebonne Parish's $852, putting the county at #23 in the state. Its bill is about 26% lower than the state median of $1,146 and about 71% 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 0.45%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #20 within Louisiana.

Some extra context for Terrebonne Parish: the median bill works out to about $71 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $451 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 107,362 people — the #14 most populous county in Louisiana, spread over 1,229 square miles, a density of about 87 people per square mile. Its median home value, $189,100, ranks #20 among the state's 64 counties with data.

Nationally, Terrebonne Parish's median bill of $852 ranks #2580 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 82% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 2.3% of Louisiana's population, its median home value is about 9% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 4.51% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Terrebonne Parish to the most expensive county, Orleans Parish ($2,428), is $1,576 a year.

Counties nearest Terrebonne Parish in the Louisiana ranking

Terrebonne Parish and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Terrebonne Parish in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Terrebonne Parish ($852) ranks #7 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Limestone County, Alabama (107,577 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $782 on a median home value of $255,100 — $70 more than Terrebonne Parish pays.

Inside Louisiana itself, the counties closest to Terrebonne Parish in population are 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); 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). 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

As an illustration of the arithmetic: at Terrebonne Parish's derived rate of 0.45%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $1,804 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 Terrebonne Parish at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.45% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Terrebonne 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 Terrebonne Parish

Most successful appeals are won on facts, not arguments. Start with the property record card held by the Terrebonne 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

• Lafourche Parish, LA — $951
• Rapides Parish, LA — $1,024
• Ascension Parish, LA — $1,419
• Bossier Parish, LA — $1,380
• St. Landry Parish, LA — $425
• Tangipahoa Parish, LA — $887

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