Use this page to orient around tax burden, assessment context, home value, county records, and ownership planning before opening a city dashboard.
Property Tax Rates in Montana
Explore property taxes in Montana with state context, city dashboard links, related cost categories, home improvement guides, and planning notes. Review state property tax context, then use city dashboards and local assessor records before comparing address-level tax bills.
City pages help connect statewide averages to housing, income, utility, climate, and demographic signals.
Verify exact providers, parcel records, insurance quotes, and local fees for the actual address.
Pair household cost research with local home improvement cost guides for repairs, maintenance, and upgrades.
Best read with assessment, exemptions, districts, and local parcel records.
Assessment base for comparing ownership burden.
Computed as tax paid divided by home value where both values exist.
Helps read tax burden against local ability to pay.
Montana Property Tax Rates Data Detail
Montana property tax planning is different from a general dashboard because the key question is ownership burden: tax paid, home value, assessment rules, exemptions, school districts, and parcel records. The effective tax signal is computed only where tax-paid and home-value fields both exist.
| City | Population | Tax paid | Home value | Tax signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judith Gap | 131 | $199 | $106k | 0.2% |
| Ennis | 615 | $1,257 | $402k | 0.3% |
| Virginia City | 148 | $1,089 | $289k | 0.4% |
| Neihart | 33 | $782 | $206k | 0.4% |
| Moore | 204 | $730 | $180k | 0.4% |
| Eureka | 2,009 | $737 | $172k | 0.4% |
| Stanford | 266 | $783 | $170k | 0.5% |
| Darby | 575 | $1,250 | $263k | 0.5% |
| Pinesdale | 847 | $953 | $198k | 0.5% |
| Stevensville | 2,172 | $1,727 | $336k | 0.5% |
| Joliet | 614 | $1,228 | $237k | 0.5% |
| Lavina | 134 | $650 | $124k | 0.5% |
How This Page Differs From the Dashboard
The Montana dashboard is a broad place overview. This property tax rates page is a category detail page: it narrows the page around one search intent, compares the same metric family across major city records, and links back to city dashboards when local context is needed.
Use this page for statewide scanning, then open a city dashboard for neighborhood-level context and local comparisons. Use parcel records, provider bills, insurance quotes, and local fee schedules before treating any number as address-specific.
Source Notes
City-level values come from the Census ACS 2023 ACS 5-year place dataset where a matching city record exists. Electricity is a state-level EIA benchmark for 2026-04. Unemployment is a state-level BLS benchmark for May 2026. State-level benchmarks are planning context and are not city-specific provider prices, parcel tax bills, or insurance quotes. Review the DataByArea methodology.
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Methodology Notes
DataByArea combines public data signals, city metrics, state-level utility and economic context, and related local resources. Where city-specific values are not available, pages should be read as planning context rather than exact quotes.
Source Context
Depending on the metric, DataByArea may use Census ACS, BLS, EIA, BEA, FRED, local assessor context, and city datasets. State-level values are not presented as parcel-level or household-specific quotes.