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Counties With the Lowest Property Tax in New Mexico (2026)

Taos has the lowest property tax of any county in New Mexico, at 0.32, followed by Catron and Rio Arriba (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 New Mexico

Top 25 of 33 counties with data.

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

Lowest counties for property tax in New Mexico
RankCountyValue
1Taos0.32
2Catron0.36
3Rio Arriba0.42
4Harding0.44
5Roosevelt0.45
6Hidalgo0.46
7Grant0.46
8Santa Fe0.48
9Colfax0.48
10Lea0.48
11Guadalupe0.48
12Torrance0.49
13Eddy0.52
14Lincoln0.53
15Luna0.54
16Los Alamos0.55
17San Miguel0.57
18Sierra0.58
19Curry0.59
20De Baca0.60
21Otero0.60
22Quay0.61
23San Juan0.63
24Chaves0.63
25Valencia0.68

How this ranking works

This page ranks New Mexico 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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