Alaska property tax mill rates by municipality

What the figures are

This page reproduces the effective mill rate each Alaska borough, unified municipality and city outside a borough reports to the Office of the State Assessor, with its assessed values, assessment ratio and coefficient of dispersion. A city inside a borough levies its own mills on top of the borough's, and service-area levies are added too; those are not in this table, so a borough's rate is not the whole rate inside its cities. Period: the 2025 assessment year, from the Office of the State Assessor's Alaska Taxable 2025 report (January 2026).

Who levies. "Property taxation is not mandatory or even generally practiced in the state. Of the 19 organized boroughs and unified municipalities, only 15 levy a property tax; and, of the 145 home rule, first class, and second class cities, only nine of those located outside of boroughs and 12 of those located within organized boroughs levy a property tax." (Alaska Taxable 2025, Part 1 E)

Mill rate. A mill is one dollar per $1,000 of assessed value. The table heads the column "Effective Mill Rate" and does not define it further; the rates are as each municipality reported them. (Table 2 column heading)

A/V ratio. Footnote (1): the reported ratio of municipal assessed value to market price, a weighted mean ratio of real property only. Where it is well below 100, assessments sit well below market value. (Table 2, footnote 1)

• Cities inside boroughs (for example Fairbanks, Kenai, Soldotna, Palmer, Kodiak and Ketchikan) levy their own mills on top of the borough rate and are not in this table; neither are service-area levies.
• The unorganized borough levies no municipal property tax; its row in the source carries only state-assessed oil and gas value ($3,091,924,080). The state taxes oil and gas property at 20 mills, and local taxes on it are credited against the state tax (report, Part 1 E).
• Table 2's footnote says cities within boroughs that receive oil and gas property tax were left out "for clarity and to avoid double-counting".

All 24 municipalities, 2025

Ranked by effective mill rate (mills, dollars per $1,000 of assessed value), highest first; 1 municipality shown as printed but not ranked (†) follow. Click a heading to sort.

Rows shown as printed but checked

Every row is shown exactly as the source prints it. This one failed one of this page's checks, so it is marked † and left out of rankings, medians and the drawings; it was not changed.

• Cordova: Its printed total assessed value ($313,476,971) leaves out its printed state-assessed oil and gas value ($13,148,000); the parts add up to $326,624,971. Shown as printed and not ranked.

Assessment ratios differ widely between municipalities and city and service-area levies are not in the table, so no example bill is computed.

How to appeal an assessment in Alaska

Each borough or city that levies a property tax assesses property and hears appeals through its own board of equalization; no statewide procedure page could be read for this update, so no route is given here. The assessment notice from the municipality names the deadline, and the Office of the State Assessor (Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development) publishes this report.

Questions

Other states

Town-by-town rates: New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maine and Massachusetts. County or district figures, by census region: Northeast: New York, Vermont; Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia; West: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. The states page compares them; the assessed-versus-market-value guide explains why a rate alone does not fix a bill.

Source: Alaska Office of the State Assessor (Division of Community and Regional Affairs), Alaska Taxable 2025, Table 2: Summary of Assessed Values for Municipalities Levying a Property Tax (January 2026) (Locally assessed real and personal property, state-assessed oil and gas property, total assessed value, reported assessment ratio, COD and effective mill rate for the 24 municipalities that levy a property tax, with the unorganized borough and statewide rows; the table is an image, read twice (by eye and by OCR), all digits identical). Checks: the table, an image in the report, was read twice (by eye and by OCR) and every digit agreed; this build re-checks every mill rate and total against the OCR read; the real, personal and oil and gas columns add up exactly to the statewide row; real + personal + oil and gas equals the printed total assessed value for 23 of the 24 municipalities; Cordova's printed total leaves out its oil and gas value, which is the whole gap between the column total and the statewide total; every rate is under the 30-mill cap the report cites (AS 29.45.090); rows outside three interquartile ranges of the others are flagged; no two neighbouring rows repeat. Last checked October 27, 2026. See the methodology. Figures are reproduced from the official publication; the county, town or state office that issues the bill governs. Not tax or legal advice.