Swift County, Minnesota Property Tax

The median owner-occupied home in Swift County had a real-estate tax bill of $1,258 (± $60) a year, compared with $3,184 in Minnesota and $2,969 nationwide. The median home value was $147,100 (± $11,851), compared with $305,500 in Minnesota and $303,400 nationwide.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates for Swift County, Minnesota and the United States, with margins of error
Measure	Swift County	Minnesota	United States
Population	9,787	5,713,716	332,387,540
Median annual property tax bill (homeowners)	$1,258 ± $60	$3,184 ± $12	$2,969 ± $3
Median home value	$147,100 ± $11,851	$305,500 ± $890	$303,400 ± $362
Median household income	$62,601 ± $5,924	$87,556 ± $396	$78,538 ± $176
Property tax as a share of home value (calculated)	0.86% ± 0.08 points	1.04% ± under 0.01 points	0.98% ± under 0.01 points
Homes lived in by their owners	74.3% ± 2.4 points	72.4% ± 0.3 points	65.0% ± 0.3 points
Owner households headed by someone 65 or older	36.1% ± 2.9 points	28.7% ± 0.1 points	32.6% ± 0.2 points
Owners spending 30% or more of income on housing costs	17.5% ± 3.1 points	18.8% ± 0.2 points	22.2% ± 0.1 points

How to read these numbers

These are estimates from a survey, not a count. The American Community Survey asks a sample of households. The ± figure is the Census Bureau’s margin of error: the true value is very likely within that range of the estimate. Small places have large margins.
“Too imprecise to report” means the margin of error is at least half of the estimate, so printing the number would suggest accuracy that does not exist. A “rough guide only” note means the margin is a quarter to a half of the estimate.
Property tax bill and home value are medians for owner-occupied homes. Half of the homes are above the figure and half below. A median bill is not the rate set by a city or town; the bill combines taxes levied by every local government that serves the home, such as the school district and county.
“Calculated” rows are worked out by Untax the Roof from the Census figures above them. They compare two medians, so they describe the place, not a particular household.
Missing is not zero. Where the Census Bureau publishes no figure, this page says so.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2019–2023: tables B25103 (real estate taxes), B25077 (home value), B19013 (household income), B01003 (population), B25003 (owners and renters), B25007 (age of householder), B25091 (housing costs as a share of income); see the Census ACS data page.

Cities, towns and villages in Swift County (8)

Incorporated places with their own local government. A place that crosses a county line is listed in each county it touches and marked “partly”; its page shows figures for the whole place.

Towns and townships in Swift County (27)

Recognized by the Census Bureau, but no property tax figure published (2)

These places appear in the Census Bureau’s list of places and governmental units in Swift County, but its 2019–2023 survey publishes no median property tax bill for them (usually because too few households were sampled). They are listed here so that no place is overlooked. The county figures above are the closest available estimate.

Fairfield township
Moyer township

Other named communities in Swift County (1)

These names come from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which records historical and local names of populated places: small settlements, neighborhoods, rural localities and former towns. The Census Bureau does not report them as cities, towns or census-designated places, so no figures exist for them at this level. The county figures above are the closest available estimate. A name can appear for a place that no longer exists or that lies inside a larger place.

Swift Falls

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