Table 23
Property Taxes Per Capita, 1996
Rank	State	Amt.		Rank	State	Amt.
1	New Jersey	$1,604		27	Pennsylvania	$721
2	New Hampshire	1,520		28	California	715
3	Connecticut	1,422		29	Ohio	713
4	NEW YORK	$1,279		30	Arizona	703
5	Rhode Island	1,162		31	Indiana	690
6	Vermont	1,155		32	Georgia	652
7	Alaska	1,121		33	North Dakota	640
8	Maine	1,088		34	Idaho	548
9	Massachusetts	1,063		35	Nevada	548
10	Illinois	1,056		36	South Carolina	528
11	Wisconsin	1,054		37	Hawaii	517
12	Nebraska	956		38	Utah	504
13	Wyoming	905		39	Missouri	488
14	Minnesota	884		40	North Carolina	472
15	Montana	883		41	Mississippi	445
16	Washington	845		42	Tennessee	426
17	Iowa	836		43	Delaware	413
18	Florida	820		44	West Virginia	398
19	Texas	797		45	Kentucky	363
20	Kansas	772		46	Louisiana	312
21	South Dakota	762		47	Oklahoma	307
22	Maryland	748		48	Arkansas	300
23	Colorado	743		49	New Mexico	276
24	Michigan	740		50	Alabama	234
25	Oregon	728		U.S. average		$789
26	Virginia	726		N.Y.S. % above avg.		62.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau data; calculations by The Public Policy Institute
New York's higher-than-average property taxes add up to an additional burden of more than $9 billion a year.