Connecticut Has 2025’s 3rd Highest Real Estate Property Taxes, Study Says

Are you saving your dollars, returning your 10 cent cans for deposit? The tax man is coming in less than two months, according to a new study Connecticut has the third highest real estate property taxes in the country for 2025.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the phrase 'Nothing is certain except death and taxes', and boy, don't we know that's true by living in Connecticut. Before I sold my house in Waterbury I was paying over $6,000 a year due to Waterbury's ridiculous mill rate. My property had an assessed value of $134,000, and every April was an adventure trying to scrape up the amount due. I realize now that I had it good in 2018, some of my friends are now coughing up $10,000 a year after revaluation.

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WalletHub.com has just released Property Taxes by State in 2025, and Connecticut has landed near the bottom of the rankings for 2025. To arrive at their rankings and to determine which states had the best and worst property tax rates WalletHub compared the 50 states and DC using US Census Bureau data and data from each state's Department of Motor Vehicles.

Connecticut was ranked #49 out of 51 for real estate property taxes, with an average real estate tax bill of $5,813 on a $303,400 average home. Connecticut's state median home value for 2025 is $343,200, so good luck with your mill rate. The two states that did worse than Connecticut at the bottom of the rankings were Illinois at #50, and New Jersey at #51. The lowest real estate property taxes in the US for 2025? Hawaii, Alabama, and Nevada.