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Counties With the Lowest Property Tax in Iowa (2026)

Lyon has the lowest property tax of any county in Iowa, at 0.92, followed by Dickinson and Chickasaw (data vintage 2020-2024). The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Lowest counties for property tax in Iowa

Top 25 of 99 counties with data.

Ranked by effective property tax rate (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Lowest counties for property tax in Iowa
RankCountyValue
1Lyon0.92
2Dickinson0.92
3Chickasaw1.02
4O'Brien1.02
5Plymouth1.03
6Mitchell1.05
7Monona1.09
8Osceola1.09
9Cherokee1.10
10Worth1.10
11Sac1.10
12Carroll1.11
13Winneshiek1.12
14Sioux1.12
15Pocahontas1.13
16Grundy1.14
17Clay1.16
18Ida1.16
19Louisa1.16
20Van Buren1.18
21Kossuth1.19
22Palo Alto1.20
23Dubuque1.21
24Hancock1.21
25Fremont1.21

How this ranking works

This page ranks Iowa counties by effective property tax rate, sorted so the lowest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For property tax, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh property tax against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of effective property tax rate.

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