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<br />ague survey' of property taxes on an the rest of the m~nicipalities are at the estimated tax figures are_quIte different. '
<br />$80,000 house.' . low end of the property_tax rankings; . '. The difference is accounted 'for by the
<br />lOf the 95 municipalities in the metro. .' The pUfJlose of the survey, which has' . sales ratio adjustrrienLThe:average house.
<br />litan area with populations greater than' been conducted by the CL NEWS since :,: value figure in column te~-isa9jusfed b~ .
<br />,500, 13 had mcreases of more than 35, the mid-1960s, is to illustrate how home~ ' state Department of Revenue sales rat!o
<br />Ircent in 198.3,. .39 ha.d incre.ases be.. ' stead property taxes ge.nerallY comp..are ". ,figures to account for different asseSS'
<br />een 20 and 3Spercent,t24 had in. . from community to community. The ment practices among communities. A-'
<br />eases between ten and 20 percent; 13 chart on pages two and three shows how , . figure of $80,000 in cohimn ten would'
<br />had increases between zero and ten :~~ .~ property taxes compare. It is not de~, '.: result in an esti.n1ated tax figure similar to
<br />,rcent, and six had decreases.'. '- . signed to show how much you will pay',. the one in ~olunin one;':, .
<br />A tax of $71S,orroughly .9 percent'.:':' 'in taxes on your home. However, if the,.... -:. , The average value figure for, each ,,';.
<br />market value, is the median property~:,<,'~~ssessor pegs .thevalue 'of your house at;.,:, commu~ity ~as developed,using sta,t~ ;",;;;.," ; ~ ..
<br />tax on a homestead selling for $80,000.';"';:";" the same level as is shown in column four,;'c Departmerit qf Revenue records. The,,'
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<br />. Of the thirteen municipalities with~' :munity.' '.:: ;~: ,'f'",""':>__ ..' ;.~: ::::,:;,"numbero( llOmesteads. Dividing the total .
<br />increases topping 35, percent-Arden 'C', A new feature in this year's survey is '.~:'-" assesse<i "value by the number of home:,;
<br />.ls, Columbus Township, Deephaven, _ . the column at the righ~ hand side of the . steads gives'the average figure., The '.~'
<br />.en Prairie, Fridley, Linwood Town-' chart. which shows the average house median value figure was unavailabie. '
<br />ship, Mounds View; New Brighton, North 'value in each municipality and the esti- Another new feature of this year's
<br />(S' Saint Anthony, Shoreview, White mated tax on it. This column shows what survey.is the 'inclusion of more detail
<br />ar Township and Woodbury-some are . the tax would be on a home which is. on mill rates. In past years, only the total
<br />. . er ring and others, outer ring suburbs. . typical of the municipality, not of the , mill rate for each municipality has been,.,.
<br />.:There is no clear pattern of wealth or _ 'whole metropolitan region. Average . wasincluded~,:JrnsY,ear. we list the.t~tal.::.
<br />lowth among the communitieswith '. house values 'aiid estimated taxes range , . rate and the,c6mponerits\vhi~1iri1ake it ,.
<br />pidly rising property taxes.;,: ~., from a high of $2) 1,870 ~,~_$~,841 iIi, up, showirig~r!tJllnite.sf~r schooldistricts,
<br />, The six municipalities which showed North OaksCto"'-ilow of $54,877 and . ';'/'. cities or toWil'ships,-'countie'S'and special .'
<br />decreases-Belle Plaine, Chaska. Farming- '., $387 in Belle Plaine. ". - '. ,:.<o,.<:J'i,.' ':taxing districts; in. columns. five through.
<br />tn, Inver Grove Heights, Rosemount,:: ',,; In some cases, the estimatelliouse'. "'. nine., ", 'c( . . .... : ':. .: " ';.
<br />d Jordan-are ~ outeuing S\lbu,rbs iii-.<=.value figure in column ten is fairly close'~ . Inall cases, the school mill rate is the
<br />, . , ',.. " largest element of the total mill, rate. The,
<br />. , " _ __, school mill rate shown includes 'any levy-'
<br />MedianN~t' Piope~y :Ta~~s a Perce~~g~' ;,i Selli~'~ Price' on a"iy~i~1 H~m;~eaci'" . for' vocational-technical institutions' as,
<br />In the Metropolitan Area, Annual Citizens League Survey ..' well as the'levy for'prim'ary-secondary
<br />education. ~n looking at the figure for the
<br />school district levy, keep"irlmind that
<br />. school districts frequently cover parts of
<br />. several municipalities, and municipalities
<br />may 'contain' parts of several school dis- '
<br />triets.The school district number is listed
<br />next to the name ofthe municipality in
<br />the left hand coluIDn of the table.'
<br />" Differences in county mill rates among
<br />municipalities in the 'same county can .
<br />. typically be accounted for by services:
<br />provided only' in certain parts of the '
<br />county. Ramsey and Hennepin counties;
<br />for exan1ple, leVy for library service in
<br />. most of the county, but not in Saint Paul
<br />or Minneapolis, cities which have their
<br />own library systems. .
<br />The miscellaneous levy is made up
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