What is the property tax rate in Alaska?

The statewide effective rate is 1.14% of home value, from a median bill of $3,785 on a median home of $333,300. Rates are set locally rather than by the state, so this is a weighted outcome across 18 counties rather than a posted figure.

Which Alaska county has the highest property tax?

Nome Census Area at 1.55%, and Northwest Arctic Borough is the lowest at 0.12%. A spread that wide inside one state is normal: school district funding varies far more than state policy does.

How much is property tax on a $400,000 home in Alaska?

Roughly $4,560 a year at the state effective rate, though the county matters more than the state. Pick your county below for a closer figure.

Is Alaska expensive to live in?

Prices overall run at 102.4 against a national 100, ranking it #14 of 51. Housing is the part that moves: rents there sit at 93.8. Full cost of living breakdown.

Alaska property tax by county

The median Alaska homeowner pays $3,785 a year in property tax on a home worth $333,300, an effective rate of 1.14%. That ranks Alaska #16 of 51 states, against a national 0.98%.

Effective rate 1.14% #16 of 51 states

Median bill $3,785 U.S. $2,969

Median home $333,300 #20 most expensive

Counties covered 18 over 5,000 people

Why the county matters more than the state

Nome Census Area charges an effective 1.55% and Northwest Arctic Borough 0.12%, a spread of 1.43 points inside one state. Property tax in the United States is set by counties, cities, school districts and special districts, not by states. A statewide figure is a weighted average of thousands of separate decisions, and it can be a poor guide to any particular address.

Alaska sits 0.16 points above the national effective rate. States with high rates often have low home values, because a school district has to raise the same money whatever housing is worth. House prices in the state moved +8.3% over the year to 2026 Q2, which changes the denominator of this rate over time.

Every county ranked

Alaska counties by effective property tax rate, ACS 2023 five-year estimates
#	County	Rate	Median bill	Home value	Rent	Income
1	Nome Census Area	1.55%	$3,110	$201,000	$1,328	$76,643
2	Anchorage Municipality	1.29%	$4,865	$375,900	$1,453	$98,152
3	Fairbanks North Star Borough	1.26%	$3,570	$282,500	$1,424	$84,722
4	Matanuska-Susitna Borough	1.10%	$3,512	$319,200	$1,258	$90,625
5	North Slope Borough	0.95%	$2,082	$219,600	$1,167	$86,313
6	Juneau City and Borough	0.93%	$4,039	$432,500	$1,462	$100,513
7	Kodiak Island Borough	0.92%	$3,509	$382,700	$1,669	$83,716
8	Chugach Census Area	0.92%	$3,033	$330,900	$1,397	$88,565
9	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	0.86%	$757	$87,800	$893	$52,642
10	Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	0.71%	$1,871	$262,800	$1,304	$74,223
11	Aleutians West Census Area	0.71%	$2,969	$419,100	$1,886	$107,344
12	Ketchikan Gateway Borough	0.68%	$2,588	$379,000	$1,388	$89,155
13	Kenai Peninsula Borough	0.66%	$1,974	$297,500	$1,163	$77,722
14	Sitka City and Borough	0.47%	$2,086	$442,100	$1,350	$101,207
15	Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area	0.47%	$1,043	$221,800	$915	$59,079
16	Kusilvak Census Area	0.27%	$199	$72,700	$832	$48,233
17	Northwest Arctic Borough	0.12%	$199	$162,500	$1,336	$81,298

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates. The effective property tax rate is median taxes paid divided by median home value. The two medians come from different distributions, so it approximates the typical rate rather than describing any one household.