Revolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingRevolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingHalf of the homes that sold carried a bill between $2,333 and $5,233 — that spread is mostly the price of the house, not the generosity of the county.
The rate is the median of each sale’s own tax divided by its own sale price, not the median tax divided by the median price. Those are different numbers and only the first one describes a real house.
Ordered by how many homes sold. The share-of-price column is the one to compare across counties; the cash column mostly tells you what houses cost there.
| County | Homes measured | Median annual tax | Share of sale price | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver | 8,648 | $3,155 | 0.51% | $605,000 |
| Arapahoe | 8,119 | $3,434 | 0.66% | $521,462 |
| Jefferson | 8,033 | $3,540 | 0.56% | $642,620 |
| Adams | 6,786 | $3,726 | 0.73% | $498,990 |
| Douglas | 6,267 | $4,751 | 0.65% | $710,000 |
| Larimer | 5,788 | $3,280 | 0.57% | $550,340 |
| Weld | 5,368 | $3,119 | 0.61% | $490,000 |
| Boulder | 4,405 | $4,536 | 0.60% | $739,000 |
| El Paso | 3,672 | $2,150 | 0.39% | $495,000 |
| Broomfield | 1,074 | $4,527 | 0.70% | $646,544 |
| Elbert | 579 | $3,853 | 0.47% | $664,500 |
| Park | 549 | $2,131 | 0.37% | $565,000 |
| Summit | 505 | $3,863 | 0.35% | $1,080,000 |
| Chaffee | 452 | $2,007 | 0.29% | $703,750 |
| Teller | 385 | $1,766 | 0.36% | $500,000 |
| Morgan | 371 | $1,644 | 0.49% | $345,000 |
| Pueblo | 339 | $1,588 | 0.52% | $324,000 |
| Grand | 301 | $2,932 | 0.39% | $824,500 |
| Logan | 215 | $845 | 0.36% | $239,200 |
| Clear Creek | 192 | $2,812 | 0.43% | $641,250 |
The bill climbs with the price. The rate does not.
| Sold price | Homes measured | Median annual tax | Share of sale price | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $300k | 4,602 | $1,284 | 0.56% | $240,000 |
| $300k to $500k | 19,091 | $2,419 | 0.59% | $420,000 |
| $500k to $750k | 23,334 | $3,600 | 0.60% | $599,450 |
| $750k to $1M | 9,301 | $4,925 | 0.58% | $845,000 |
| $1M to $1.5M | 5,186 | $6,449 | 0.54% | $1,187,750 |
| $1.5M and up | 3,403 | $9,942 | 0.50% | $1,970,000 |
| Town | Homes measured | Median annual tax | Share of sale price | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver | 9,656 | $3,146 | 0.53% | $580,000 |
| Aurora | 5,436 | $2,927 | 0.68% | $470,000 |
| Littleton | 2,985 | $4,080 | 0.63% | $650,000 |
| Colorado Springs | 2,781 | $1,960 | 0.38% | $475,000 |
| Fort Collins | 2,522 | $3,284 | 0.58% | $570,000 |
| Arvada | 2,122 | $3,574 | 0.58% | $624,945 |
| Parker | 1,839 | $4,439 | 0.64% | $682,000 |
| Castle Rock | 1,744 | $4,670 | 0.67% | $682,500 |
| Thornton | 1,690 | $3,796 | 0.70% | $520,000 |
| Lakewood | 1,656 | $3,080 | 0.54% | $569,500 |
| Loveland | 1,513 | $2,612 | 0.50% | $509,450 |
| Longmont | 1,501 | $3,487 | 0.62% | $565,000 |
| Boulder | 1,488 | $5,682 | 0.59% | $967,000 |
| Centennial | 1,376 | $4,538 | 0.70% | $650,000 |
| Broomfield | 1,338 | $4,078 | 0.65% | $620,000 |
| Greeley | 1,237 | $2,099 | 0.51% | $424,945 |
| Highlands Ranch | 1,193 | $4,351 | 0.62% | $709,000 |
| Commerce City | 1,116 | $5,298 | 1.11% | $495,000 |
| Brighton | 1,040 | $4,294 | 0.77% | $520,174 |
| Westminster | 968 | $2,920 | 0.57% | $543,800 |
| Kind of home | Homes sold | Median annual tax | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Family Residence | 52,364 | $3,768 | $615,000 |
| Condominium | 6,476 | $1,984 | $335,000 |
| Townhouse | 6,058 | $2,768 | $439,990 |
A median of $3,443 a year, measured on 63,257 homes that sold October 2025 to September 2026. Half of them fell between $2,333 and $5,233. As a share of what the home sold for, the median works out at 0.58%.
Measured as a share of the sale price, Adams County is the highest of the twenty biggest markets at 0.73% and Chaffee County the lowest at 0.29%. In cash the order is different, because it follows house prices: the median bill runs from $845 to $4,751 across those same counties. The full table is on this page.
The bill does, almost exactly in step: $1,284 a year on homes under $300,000 and $9,942 on homes over $1.5 million. The RATE barely moves - 0.56% against 0.50% - which is the point people usually miss. A dearer house is not taxed at a higher rate here; it is simply a bigger number times the same rate.
Not necessarily, and this is the one thing to be careful with. Every figure here is the tax that was recorded against the listing, for tax year 2024 on most of these sales. Colorado reassesses values every two years and each district sets its own mill levy, so a bill can move between the sale and the first statement a new owner receives. Treat these as what homes like this one have been paying, not as a quote.
The county assessor sets a value, a statewide assessment rate turns that into a taxable value, and the mill levies of every district the home sits in - county, city, school, fire, water, any special district - are added and applied to it. That last part is why two houses of the same value a mile apart can pay different tax, and why the county table on this page is a guide rather than a rule.
Tax, dues and insurance decide the monthly number as much as the price does. Tell us the home and we will put the real figures next to it before you offer.
Get your numbersEvery figure on this page is measured from our live MLS feed and recomputed every fifteen minutes - it is not a monthly snapshot, and the moment these figures were worked out is stamped at the foot of the page. Sales figures cover residential sales only, over the last twelve complete calendar months; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort every median. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.
Property tax is the annual amount recorded against each listing, for tax year 2024 on most of these sales, on the 63,257 of 64,917 sales that carried one. It is what the home has been taxed, not a forecast of a new owner’s bill.
These figures were worked out from the live MLS feed at October 27, 2026 at 8:48 AM Mountain time, and are recomputed every fifteen minutes.