Property Tax in Jackson County, Oregon

What the Jackson County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Jackson County pay more than $3,032, 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 0.76% for Jackson 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 Jackson County

For context, the Oregon medians are $3,767 of tax on $454,200 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Jackson County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Oregon: #14 of 36 counties
• Median home value rank in Oregon: #12 of 36
• Population rank in Oregon: #6 of 36 (222,563 residents)
• Population density rank: #10 of 36 (80 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Oregon: #13 of 36 (2,783 sq mi, 2.9% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $253; per $1,000 of home value: $0.76

How Jackson County compares

The median tax bill in Jackson County is about 20% lower than the state median ($3,767 for Oregon) and about the same as the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #14 out of 36 Oregon counties with published Census data — 13 counties in the state have a higher median bill.

Comparisons cut both ways: a county can have a modest rate but high bills because homes are expensive, or a high rate but modest bills because homes are cheaper. Jackson County's derived rate of 0.76% sits below the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Jackson County: the median bill works out to about $253 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $758 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 222,563 people — the #6 most populous county in Oregon, spread over 2,783 square miles, a density of about 80 people per square mile. Its median home value, $400,200, ranks #12 among the state's 36 counties with data.

Nationally, Jackson County's median bill of $3,032 ranks #434 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 14% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 5.3% of Oregon's population, its median home value is about 12% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 7.58% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Jackson County to the most expensive county, Multnomah County ($5,061), is $2,029 a year.

Counties nearest Jackson County in the Oregon ranking

Jackson County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Jackson County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 222,563 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Jackson County's median bill of $3,032 is #3 of 9.

The closest population match is Hinds County, Mississippi (222,494 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,389 on a median home value of $151,200 — $1,643 more than Jackson County pays.

Inside Oregon itself, the counties closest to Jackson County in population are Lane County (382,628 residents, median tax $3,417 on a median value of $395,800); Marion County (346,532 residents, median tax $3,382 on a median value of $383,300); Deschutes County (203,026 residents, median tax $3,670 on a median value of $596,000); Linn County (129,794 residents, median tax $3,130 on a median value of $344,600). 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 Jackson County's derived rate of 0.76%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $3,032 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 Jackson County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.76% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Jackson County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.83% 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 Jackson County

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

• Deschutes County, OR — $3,670
• Linn County, OR — $3,130
• Douglas County, OR — $1,869
• Yamhill County, OR — $3,318
• Marion County, OR — $3,382
• Benton County, OR — $4,713

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