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The assessment rate is a uniform percentage and varies by tax jurisdiction, and could be any percentage below 100%. After getting the assessed value, it is multiplied by the mill levy to determine your taxes due. For example, suppose the assessor determines your property value is $500,000 and the assessment rate is 8%. The assessed value would be $40,000. Now taking the mill levy of 4.5% we calculated previously, the tax due would be $1,800 ($40,000 x 4.5%).
The study uses data from the 2009 American Community Survey to estimate tax rates for US states and metropolitan areas. The state of Alabama has a median effective property tax rate of 3.33 (i.e. $3.33 per $1,000 of property value), well below the national median of 10.35. Alabama's median value of real estate tax is $398, whereas the national median is $1,917. The states with the lowest effective property tax rates are Louisiana (which also has the nation's lowest property tax values) and Hawaii, which have median effective property tax rates of 1.79 and 2.56, respectively.