Property Tax in Natrona County, Wyoming

What the Natrona County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Natrona County pay more than $1,608, 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 0.62% for Natrona 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 Natrona County

For context, the Wyoming medians are $1,659 of tax on $285,100 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Natrona County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Wyoming: #7 of 23 counties
• Median home value rank in Wyoming: #12 of 23
• Population rank in Wyoming: #2 of 23 (79,735 residents)
• Population density rank: #2 of 23 (15 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Wyoming: #5 of 23 (5,340 sq mi, 5.5% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $134; per $1,000 of home value: $0.62

How Natrona County compares

Set against its state, Natrona County's median bill of $1,608 is about 3% lower than the Wyoming median ($1,659). Against the country as a whole it is about 46% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #7 of 23 Wyoming counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Natrona County's median home, at $260,400, ranks #12 by value in Wyoming, while its derived rate of 0.62% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Natrona County: the median bill works out to about $134 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $618 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 79,735 people — the #2 most populous county in Wyoming, spread over 5,340 square miles, a density of about 15 people per square mile. Its median home value, $260,400, ranks #12 among the state's 23 counties with data.

Nationally, Natrona County's median bill of $1,608 ranks #1489 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 48% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 13.8% of Wyoming'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 6.18% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Natrona County to the most expensive county, Teton County ($5,462), is $3,854 a year.

Counties nearest Natrona County in the Wyoming ranking

Natrona County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Natrona County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 79,735 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Natrona County's median bill of $1,608 is #7 of 9.

The closest population match is Walton County, Florida (79,846 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,709 on a median home value of $376,400 — $101 less than Natrona County pays.

Natrona County's nearest population neighbours within Wyoming are Laramie County (100,661 residents, median tax $1,893 on a median value of $324,900); Campbell County (47,018 residents, median tax $1,465 on a median value of $266,400); Sweetwater County (41,786 residents, median tax $1,469 on a median value of $242,900). 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 Natrona County's derived rate of 0.62%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $2,472 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 Natrona County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.62% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Natrona County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.58% 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 Natrona County

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

• Laramie County, WY — $1,893
• Campbell County, WY — $1,465
• Sweetwater County, WY — $1,469
• Fremont County, WY — $1,591
• Albany County, WY — $1,846
• Sheridan County, WY — $1,951

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