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1 Gerald Prante & Mark Robyn, New Census Data on Property Taxes on Homeowners 1 (2008)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/ffbfhxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FOUNDATION December 2008 No. 157 FISCAL FACT New Census Data on Property Taxes on Homeowners By Gerald Prante and Mark Robyn Beginning in 2008, the Census Bureau is releasing three-year estimates of data for smaller communities, including data on homeowners' property taxes. Earlier this decade, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) program began releasing annual estimates pertaining to demographics, housing and income for communities whose population exceeded 250,000. The Tax Foundation used this data to compare property taxation in all of the nation's large communities. The survey later expanded to include more places, using 65,000 as the minimum population, enabling the Tax Foundation to show how real estate taxes compare across many more counties. And starting this year, the Census will also publish data about smaller communities, those with populations between 20,000 and 65,000. The data will be presented as a three-year average, not a separate set of data for each year, so the Tax Foundation will compare them separately. 1, 2 The ACS continues to provide annual estimates of hundreds of variables for places with populations greater than 65,000, and the Tax Foundation will continue to use that series to compare property taxes. The Tax Foundation has long published historical data on property tax collections compiled by the Census Bureau's Government Finances division. However, such data includes not only taxes paid by individual homeowners, but also property taxes paid by businesses, as well as some special types of property pertaining to minerals or fuels found mostly in a handful of states, such as Texas, Wyoming and Alaska. When people want to know where property taxes are the highest, though, they typically wonder about property taxes levied specifically on homeowners. This is where the ACS data is useful.

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