Property Tax in Rogers County, Oklahoma

What the Rogers County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Rogers County pay more than $1,739, 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 0.78% for Rogers County. 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 Rogers County

For context, the Oklahoma medians are $1,520 of tax on $185,900 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Rogers County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Oklahoma: #9 of 77 counties
• Median home value rank in Oklahoma: #5 of 77
• Population rank in Oklahoma: #6 of 77 (97,235 residents)
• Population density rank: #6 of 77 (144 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Oklahoma: #54 of 77 (675 sq mi, 1.0% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $145; per $1,000 of home value: $0.78

How Rogers County compares

Of the 77 Oklahoma counties with published data, 8 have a higher median property tax bill than Rogers County's $1,739, putting the county at #9 in the state. Its bill is about 14% higher than the state median of $1,520 and about 41% 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 0.78%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #5 within Oklahoma.

Some extra context for Rogers County: the median bill works out to about $145 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $783 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 97,235 people — the #6 most populous county in Oklahoma, spread over 675 square miles, a density of about 144 people per square mile. Its median home value, $222,200, ranks #5 among the state's 77 counties with data.

Nationally, Rogers County's median bill of $1,739 ranks #1346 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 43% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 2.4% of Oklahoma's population, its median home value is about 20% above the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 7.83% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Rogers County to the most expensive county, Cleveland County ($2,288), is $549 a year.

Counties nearest Rogers County in the Oklahoma ranking

Rogers County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Rogers County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 97,235 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Rogers County's median bill of $1,739 is #8 of 9.

The closest population match is Portsmouth city, Virginia (97,299 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $2,452 on a median home value of $229,400 — $713 less than Rogers County pays.

Staying within Oklahoma, the counties nearest Rogers County by population are Canadian County (162,621 residents, median tax $2,259 on a median value of $230,300); Comanche County (121,699 residents, median tax $1,386 on a median value of $154,300); Wagoner County (84,339 residents, median tax $1,753 on a median value of $216,000); Payne County (82,290 residents, median tax $1,884 on a median value of $217,700). 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

Think of the final bill as three ingredients: the assessed value of the property, the exemptions subtracted from it, and the combined rate of every district the property sits in. Rogers County's medians imply a derived rate of 0.78%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $3,132 a year, or around $261 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Rogers County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.78% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Rogers County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.82% 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 Rogers County

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

• Wagoner County, OK — $1,753
• Payne County, OK — $1,884
• Pottawatomie County, OK — $1,013
• Comanche County, OK — $1,386
• Creek County, OK — $1,261
• Muskogee County, OK — $972

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