Homeowners in Maple Bluff paid 1.6% of their property’s value in taxes during the fourth quarter of 2025—more than 1.8 times the U.S. average, BlockShopper.com reports.
Data from the 10 homes sold in that quarter indicate a median sales price of $965,600 in Maple Bluff. For 2025, the city’s median property tax bill was $15,145, amounting to 1.6% of the median assessed home value.
The average effective property tax rate across the United States stood at 0.888% in 2024.
Dane led Dane County with the area’s highest effective property tax rate.
Effective rates for 2025 in this article are estimated using inflation adjustments with 2024 county tax data. Actual rates may differ slightly in some cases.
According to Redfin, the national median home price continued to climb in 2025, reaching about $447,000 in June—a 1.13% increase from the previous year. The market also saw a marked imbalance, with 36% more homes listed than buyers (a gap of 508,715 properties). For Redfin, a balanced housing market requires the numbers of buyers and sellers to be within 10% of each other.
The table below provides a comparison of Dane and other Dane County cities by their median effective property tax rate, based on sales and tax data from the final quarter of 2025.
| City | Q4 2025 Sales | Q4 2025 Median Price | Median tax 2025 | Effective tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dane | 10 | $250,000 | $5,872 | 2.3% |
| Marshall | 11 | $260,000 | $4,989 | 1.9% |
| Sun Prairie | 161 | $370,000 | $6,936 | 1.9% |
| Belleville | 8 | $284,757 | $5,315 | 1.9% |
| Fitchburg | 114 | $425,000 | $7,819 | 1.8% |
| Cottage Grove | 45 | $390,000 | $7,083 | 1.8% |
| Verona | 72 | $419,950 | $7,247 | 1.7% |
| Madison | 1,125 | $415,000 | $6,874 | 1.7% |
| Deerfield | 20 | $272,500 | $4,546 | 1.7% |
| Cambridge | 10 | $328,500 | $5,333 | 1.6% |
| Middleton | 91 | $499,000 | $7,912 | 1.6% |
| Maple Bluff | 10 | $965,600 | $15,145 | 1.6% |
| Stoughton | 82 | $358,000 | $5,568 | 1.6% |
| Mount Horeb | 31 | $407,099 | $6,125 | 1.5% |
| McFarland | 42 | $443,100 | $6,840 | 1.5% |
| Cross Plains | 19 | $400,000 | $5,831 | 1.5% |
| Mazomanie | 11 | $300,000 | $4,468 | 1.5% |
| Waunakee | 78 | $525,100 | $7,806 | 1.5% |
| Windsor | 30 | $479,637 | $6,807 | 1.4% |
| DeForest | 62 | $445,000 | $6,307 | 1.4% |
| Shorewood Hills | 6 | $1,115,000 | $15,915 | 1.4% |
| Black Earth | 10 | $325,830 | $4,650 | 1.4% |
| Brooklyn | 7 | $395,000 | $5,591 | 1.4% |
| Blue Mounds | 3 | $380,000 | $5,498 | 1.4% |
| Oregon | 71 | $484,844 | $6,709 | 1.4% |