Property Tax in Crawford County, Pennsylvania

What the Crawford County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Crawford County homeowners pay more than $2,099 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 $143,400, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 1.46%. 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.

Crawford County by the numbers

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

Crawford County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Pennsylvania: #43 of 67 counties
• Median home value rank in Pennsylvania: #53 of 67
• Population rank in Pennsylvania: #35 of 67 (83,189 residents)
• Population density rank: #44 of 67 (82 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Pennsylvania: #9 of 67 (1,012 sq mi, 2.3% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $175; per $1,000 of home value: $1.46

How Crawford County compares

The median tax bill in Crawford County is about 35% lower than the state median ($3,241 for Pennsylvania) and about 29% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #43 out of 67 Pennsylvania counties with published Census data — 42 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. Crawford County's derived rate of 1.46% sits above the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Crawford County: the median bill works out to about $175 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,464 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 83,189 people — the #35 most populous county in Pennsylvania, spread over 1,012 square miles, a density of about 82 people per square mile. Its median home value, $143,400, ranks #53 among the state's 67 counties with data.

Nationally, Crawford County's median bill of $2,099 ranks #988 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 32% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 0.6% of Pennsylvania's population, its median home value is about 40% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 14.64% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Crawford County to the most expensive county, Chester County ($6,191), is $4,092 a year.

Counties nearest Crawford County in the Pennsylvania ranking

Crawford County and its population peers

Population is a useful lens on these figures, so the table below sets Crawford County beside the counties closest to it in population anywhere in the country — communities of a similar scale operating under different state and local tax systems. Ranked by median tax paid within this peer group of 9, Crawford County's $2,099 bill is #4 of 9.

The closest population match is Bullitt County, Kentucky (83,209 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,994 on a median home value of $233,700 — $105 more than Crawford County pays.

Crawford County's nearest population neighbours within Pennsylvania are Lawrence County (85,423 residents, median tax $1,983 on a median value of $136,700); Indiana County (83,213 residents, median tax $2,271 on a median value of $145,400); Clearfield County (78,902 residents, median tax $1,488 on a median value of $125,000); Somerset County (73,255 residents, median tax $1,449 on a median value of $130,600). 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

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. Crawford County's medians imply a derived rate of 1.46%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $5,856 a year, or around $488 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Crawford County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.46% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Crawford County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 1.35% 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 Crawford County

If your bill looks wrong, work through these steps:

1. Get your property record card from the assessor and check the basics — living area, lot size, bedrooms, condition, and any exemptions you should have.
2. Compare your assessed value with recent sale prices of similar homes in Crawford County.
3. Talk to the assessor's office informally first; clear errors are often fixed without a hearing.
4. If needed, file a formal appeal with the local review board before the deadline on your assessment notice, with your evidence attached.
5. Keep paying the bill as issued while the appeal runs, unless your notice says otherwise — unpaid taxes accrue penalties regardless of an appeal.

More Pennsylvania counties

• Indiana County, PA — $2,271
• Lawrence County, PA — $1,983
• Clearfield County, PA — $1,488
• Northumberland County, PA — $1,778
• Somerset County, PA — $1,449
• Carbon County, PA — $2,914

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