Property tax in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

Estimate the property tax on a home in South Central Connecticut Planning Region

Enter a home's market value for a ballpark at South Central Connecticut Planning Region's average effective rate of 1.91% (Census). The real bill depends on the home's assessed value, the millage where it sits and any exemptions.

Property tax in South Central Connecticut Planning Region at a glance

Effective rate = median real estate taxes paid divided by median home value. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

How does South Central Connecticut Planning Region compare in Connecticut?

Among Connecticut's 9 counties, South Central Connecticut Planning Region has the 3rd highest effective property-tax rate: 2 rank higher and 6 rank lower. That is on the higher side for Connecticut. Nationally, it ranks 111th of 3135 US counties by effective rate. See every Connecticut county ranked.

How much do homeowners in South Central Connecticut Planning Region actually pay?

The median is only the middle bill. Across South Central Connecticut Planning Region's 139,620 owner-occupied homes, 90.4% pay $3,000 or more a year in property tax, 93.7% pay at least $2,000, and 1.4% pay under $800. Another 2% report paying no property tax at all, which usually means an exemption covers the whole bill.

Owners with a mortgage pay a median of $6,812 and owners without one pay $6,656. That is within 10% either way, so in South Central Connecticut Planning Region paying off the house does not go with a noticeably different bill. Census table B25103.

How does the South Central Connecticut Planning Region property tax bill compare with local incomes?

The median property tax bill of $6,759 is about 5.5% of the median income of South Central Connecticut Planning Region homeowner households, $122,844 a year. That compares two middles, so a retiree in a long-held home can pay a far larger share. 60.5% of South Central Connecticut Planning Region's occupied homes are lived in by their owners; renters pay property tax too, just folded into rent.

Property tax in counties next to South Central Connecticut Planning Region

South Central Connecticut Planning Region borders 5 counties, 1 of them across the state line.

How is a home assessed in South Central Connecticut Planning Region?

Connecticut assesses homes at 70% of market value in every county, South Central Connecticut Planning Region included. How Connecticut assesses and reappraises homes.

Is there a homestead exemption in South Central Connecticut Planning Region?

Not statewide. Since 2024 a Connecticut town may vote to exempt between 5% and 35% of the assessed value of owner-occupied homes; ask your town assessor whether yours did. That is the Connecticut rule, and it applies in South Central Connecticut Planning Region. Connecticut's exemptions and relief programs in full.

When are property taxes due in South Central Connecticut Planning Region?

Connecticut does not set property tax due dates at the state level. Each town's legislative body decides whether tax is payable in one, two, or four installments and picks the dates, subject to one rule: the last installment must fall at least 45 days before the end of the town's fiscal year. You get a one month grace period, after which interest runs at 1.5% per month, 18% a year, charged back to the original due date.

That is the Connecticut rule. South Central Connecticut Planning Region issues and collects the bill, so the dates printed on your statement are the ones that bind you.

How to appeal your South Central Connecticut Planning Region property assessment

You contest the assessed value with the the town's Board of Assessment Appeals, then Connecticut Superior Court. The filing deadline is typically February 20 following the October 1 assessment date, or March 20 if your town's assessor got an extension. That is the Connecticut rule; South Central Connecticut Planning Region sets the exact dates and forms. The Connecticut appeal process step by step.

Connecticut rules from primary state sources, reviewed September 7, 2026; sources on the Connecticut page.

Work out your own numbers

• How much house can I afford?

  Your income, debts and down payment against the 28/36 rule lenders actually use, with South Central Connecticut Planning Region's tax rate to hand.

• Mortgage calculator

  Monthly payment with principal, interest, tax and insurance, plus what an extra payment saves you.

• Connecticut income tax

  Brackets, standard deduction and what Connecticut actually taxes.

• Sales tax in South Central Connecticut Planning Region

  The other local tax: combined state and local rate for this county.