For the west-side commuter comparison, new single-family construction in Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain is taxed at about 0.516% of assessed value, with a median annual bill near $2,648. The southwest Salt Lake County production cities – Herriman, South Jordan, West Jordan, Riverton, Bluffdale – come in at about 0.547%, with a median bill near…
For new townhomes, this is the widest property-tax gap between any city pair. Saratoga Springs taxes new townhomes at about 0.449% of value; West Valley City is about 0.637% – one of the highest rates in either county. On a similarly priced unit that is roughly $1,000 a year more in West Valley City. These…
Salem’s effective property tax rate on new single-family construction is about 0.538% of value – mid-pack, not low – versus about 0.595% in Herriman. Herriman’s rate is still higher. Salem’s median dollar bill in the sample is high (about $4,771) but that reflects a small sample skewed toward larger homes rather than a high rate….
Saratoga Springs taxes new single-family construction at about 0.45% of value versus about 0.504% in South Jordan, and it is lower on both effective rate and tax per square foot. The median annual bill is about $2,773 in Saratoga Springs versus about $3,086 in South Jordan. Effective rates are from tax year 2024 assessor records…
Saratoga Springs and West Jordan produce similar median property tax bills on new single-family construction – about $2,773 versus about $2,720 – but Saratoga Springs does it at a lower effective rate (about 0.45% versus about 0.518% of value). On a same-priced home, Saratoga Springs is the lower-tax choice by roughly 15%. Effective rates are…
Lehi taxes new single-family construction at about 0.46% of value versus about 0.518% in West Jordan – the rate clearly favors Lehi. The median annual dollar bill runs about $3,364 in Lehi versus about $2,720 in West Jordan, but West Jordan’s usable sample skews toward smaller, lower-priced homes, so the bill difference partly reflects home…
Lehi taxes new single-family construction at about 0.46% of value versus about 0.504% in South Jordan, so the rate favors Lehi. But Lehi homes are pricier, so the median annual dollar bill is actually a little higher in Lehi – about $3,364 versus about $3,086 in South Jordan. On a same-priced home, Lehi is the…
Eagle Mountain taxes new single-family construction at about 0.516% of value versus about 0.595% in Herriman, and Eagle Mountain has the lowest tax-per-square-foot of any production city on either side. The median annual property tax bill is about $2,519 in Eagle Mountain versus about $4,041 in Herriman – roughly $1,520 a year more in Herriman,…
Herriman taxes new single-family construction at roughly a third higher effective rate than Saratoga Springs – about 0.595% of value versus about 0.45%. Combined with Herriman’s higher prices and larger homes, the median annual property tax bill runs about $4,041 in Herriman versus about $2,773 in Saratoga Springs, a difference of roughly $1,270 a year….
On a rate basis, new townhomes tend to carry a slightly higher effective property tax rate than new single-family homes, because a lot of new-townhome supply sits in higher-rate submarkets. Overall the effective rate on new townhomes runs about 0.55% of value versus about 0.52% for new single-family. In Salt Lake County the gap is…
Magna is one of the more affordable new-construction markets in Salt Lake County, especially for townhomes, but it carries the highest effective property tax rate of any new-construction submarket in the valley – about 0.75% of assessed value, for both single-family and townhomes, based on 2024 assessor records. For comparison, most Utah County new-construction cities…
Based on 2024 assessor records for recently completed new construction, the lowest effective property tax rates – annual tax as a share of assessed value, after the primary-residence exemption – are in Highland, Orem, and Lindon (about 0.44%), Saratoga Springs (about 0.45%), Lehi (about 0.46%), and American Fork (about 0.48%). Bluffdale townhomes also come in…