2013 Average Home Tax Bills: How Does Winchester Compare?
The average Winchester single family home tax bill leans below the average for the coming year compared to other towns and cities surveyed.
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Winchester Patch recently published a chart listing the 2013 residential tax rate for 27 communities in the area, and some readers suggested that because home values differ from town to town, it'd be better to compare the average home tax bill between communities.
Fair point.
To that end, below is a new chart listing the average single family tax bill for each community, along with the average value of a single family home in each city or town and that municipality's residential tax rate. (Note that five communities included on the previous chart—Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Malden and Somerville—did not have their average single family tax bill available on the state Division of Local Services website.)
Winchester's residential tax rate for this year was on the lower end on the last chart; however, Winchester ranks on the high end on the new chart with an average single family tax bill of $9,839, between Andover and Belmont.
The lowest average home tax bill out of the 23 communities surveyed is in Woburn at $3,553, while the highest average home tax bill belongs to Lexington at $10,906.
Check the chart below to see comparisons between communities. For more information from other communities, see the attached PDF, which contains the average single family tax bill for communities from 2003 through 2013.
2013 Average Single Family Tax Bill By Municipality
Information taken from the state Division of Local Services. All numbers for 2013. In order from lowest average single family tax bill to highest.
| Community | Residential Tax Rate | Single Family Average Value | Average Single Family Tax Bill | Residential Exemption | |||
| Woburn | 10.40 | $341,661 | $3,553 | ||||
| Saugus | 11.28 | $325,521 | $3,672 | ||||
| Peabody | 11.98 | $307,144 | $3,680 | ||||
| Medford | 12.36 | $348,506 | $4,308 | ||||
| Burlington | 11.85 | $382,764 | $4,536 | ||||
| Salem | 16.38 | $284,531 | $4,666 | 20% | |||
| Wilmington | 13.61 | $349,457 | $4,756 | ||||
| Tewksbury | 15.44 | $316,552 | $4,888 | ||||
| Wakefield | 12.29 | $401,572 | $4,935 | ||||
| Stoneham | 13.06 | $380,570 | $4,970 |
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| Danvers | 14.54 | $349,742 | $5,085 | ||||
| Melrose | 13.03 | $400,030 | $5,212 | ||||
| Chelmsford | 17.95 | $323,052 | $5,799 | ||||
| Reading | 14.94 | $432,271 | $6,458 | ||||
| North Andover | 13.72 | $478,064 | $6,559 | ||||
| Arlington |
13.61 | $502,753 |
$6,842 |
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| Westford |
16.13 |
$440,011 |
$7,097 |
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| North Reading |
16.04 |
$452,437 |
$7,257 |
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| Lynnfield | 14.82 | $510,995 | $7,573 | ||||
| Andover |
14.51 |
$549,057 |
$7,967 |
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| Winchester |
12.77 | $770,456 | $9,839 | ||||
| Belmont | 13.33 | $771,100 | $10,359 | ||||
| Lexington | 15.20 | $717,526 | $10,906 |
BAV
7:47 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Is this median or average? I ask because usually for such data, median is much more useful. High value outliers (3 million dollar houses) can dramatically skew the data). Put another way, it is likely that more people in town pay BELOW the average than ABOVE.
Daniel DeMaina
11:23 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
The Division of Local Services data lists these numbers as presented above, as the "average." No median numbers could be found on the DLS website where the numbers were taken from (although maybe I missed them).