Chaplin, Connecticut
What Chaplin taxes, at what rate, what that costs per resident, and how it sits against local incomes.
This town's equalized mill rate against the median of its surrounding towns and the median of its DRG peer group, for every fiscal year OPM reports. The equalized rate is used here because it is not reset by a revaluation.
Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), field equalized_mill_rate, from data.ct.gov. Peer lines are the median of each group, not a total or an average. This town is excluded from its own group medians.
The rate the town posts each year, against the median of the posted rates in its surrounding towns and in its DRG peer group. This series runs to , later than the audited-actuals file behind the equalized chart above, so the most recent years here have no equalized counterpart on this page. This is not a burden trend. A posted rate steps down in the year a revaluation takes effect without the tax burden changing, and the peer medians are medians of other towns' posted rates, so the distance between the lines moves with where each town sits in its revaluation cycle as well as with tax decisions. The equalized chart above is the comparable one.
Source: CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and grand_list_year, from data.ct.gov, as packaged in /data/ct_mill_rates.json. Peer lines are the median of each group's own posted rates, not a ratio of medians; this town is excluded from its own group medians. Where OPM files a rate of zero, that town-year is carried as missing rather than charted as zero; some of those gaps are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload. Where this file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.
Each peer town's posted (nominal) mill rate next to its equalized rate for the most recent fiscal year OPM reports, sorted by equalized rate. The two differ because a town's nominal rate steps down in the year it revalues — assessments rise, so the same tax levy needs fewer mills — while the equalized rate restates every town's rate against market value. The equalized rate is the one that can be compared across towns. Bars are colored by group: this town, its surrounding towns, and its DRG peers.
Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields mill_rate_real_estate_personal (nominal) and equalized_mill_rate, from data.ct.gov. Towns with no equalized rate reported for this year are omitted.
Each peer town's posted real-estate mill rate for , the most recent year the rate file publishes, lowest first. This is a later year than the equalized chart above can reach. Read it as posted rates, not as relative tax burden: each town's rate is laid against its own grand list, and a town that revalued recently posts a lower rate for the same levy than a town that has not. The nominal-vs-equalized chart above is the like-for-like comparison. Bars are colored by group: this town, its surrounding towns, and its DRG peers.
Source: CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and grand_list_year, from data.ct.gov, as packaged in /data/ct_mill_rates.json. Peer towns with no rate published for this year are omitted. Hover a bar for the October 1 grand list the rate is laid against. Some cells in this file are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload. Where this file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.
Every town in the state ranked by equalized mill rate for the most recent fiscal year OPM reports, lowest rate first. Bars are shaded light to dark by quartile of rate level, which is a scale and not a rating; this town's bar carries a dark border and its label is bold. Hover any bar for that town's nominal rate and its revaluation factor (equalized ÷ nominal). A statewide ranking does not hold income, density, or service mix constant, so it is context rather than a like-for-like comparison — the peer chart above is the closer comparison.
Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields equalized_mill_rate and mill_rate_real_estate_personal, from data.ct.gov. Groton (City) is excluded: it is a sub-municipality reported separately from Groton and has no equalized rate reported. Towns with no equalized rate reported for this year are also omitted, so the count of ranked towns can be below 169. A revaluation factor near 0.70 indicates a grand list set at a recent revaluation; a lower factor indicates market values have risen since the town last revalued, a higher factor that they have fallen.
What the town's taxable property is made of, as a share of the assessed value on each grand list. Residential covers houses and apartments; commercial covers commercial, industrial and public-utility property; land is vacant, land-use and ten-mill land; then registered motor vehicles and business personal property.
Source: CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields residential, commercial, land, motor_vehicle, personal and class_total, from data.ct.gov. Shares are taken against class_total — the five classes summed — and not against net_grand_list.
One point per Connecticut town. Across the bottom is median household income from the most recent American Community Survey five-year release (). Up the side is the property tax levy per resident for — the town's net grand list taxed at its posted real-estate mill rate on the non-vehicle share of that list and at its capped motor-vehicle mill rate on the vehicle share, divided by its population, with the grand list, both rates and the population taken from that same fiscal year. This town is drawn large; its surrounding towns and DRG peers are colored by group and every other town is neutral gray. The two axes come from different periods: the ACS release pools five years of survey responses and is not the same window as the fiscal year of the levy.
Source: levy from CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields net_grand_list and population_state_dept_of_public_health, and CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and motor_vehicle; the vehicle share of the list from CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields motor_vehicle and class_total; income from US Census ACS 5-year table B19013 (variable B19013_001E), packaged as median_household_income in /data/ct_town_income.json. The levy is computed by splitting the net grand list into its motor-vehicle share and the rest, applying real_estate_personal to the non-vehicle part and motor_vehicle to the vehicle part, then dividing the two together by 1,000 and by population. Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute, separately from the real-estate rate, which is why the two rates are applied to their own shares of the list; the shares are read from the October 1 grand list each rate is laid against. The result is the amount the rates lay against the taxable list, not the amount a town collected, and it excludes special-district rates. A town is plotted only where the grand list, the rate, the population and the income figure all exist for the same fiscal year. Some rate cells are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload; where the rate file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred. The dashed line is a least-squares fit through the plotted points — a summary of the scatter, not a prediction for any town.
The same levy per resident, divided by the town's median household income and shown as a percentage, with every town ranked lowest first. The measure divides a town-wide levy — residential, commercial, land and vehicles together — by a household median, so it is an indicator of relative load rather than any household's actual bill: households differ in size, in what they own, and in whether they own at all.
Source: the same inputs as the chart above — CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields net_grand_list and population_state_dept_of_public_health; CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and motor_vehicle; CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields motor_vehicle and class_total, for the vehicle share of the list; US Census ACS 5-year table B19013, field median_household_income. The levy applies the posted real-estate rate to the non-vehicle share of the grand list and the motor-vehicle rate to the vehicle share, because Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute, separately from the real-estate rate. Numerator and denominator are per-resident and per-household respectively, so the ratio is a comparison index rather than an effective tax rate on income. Some rate cells are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload; where the rate file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.
This town's median household income across the American Community Survey five-year releases, against the median of its surrounding towns and the median of its DRG peers, with the town's median home value on the right-hand axis. Each release pools five years of responses, so adjacent points overlap by four years and the change between them is not annual change. The dollars are those of each release year and are not adjusted for inflation, so part of any rise is price level rather than purchasing power.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B19013 (variable B19013_001E, packaged as median_household_income) and B25077 (variable B25077_001E, packaged as median_home_value), in /data/ct_town_income.json. Peer lines are the median of each group's own town values; this town is excluded from its own group medians. Home value is the median value of owner-occupied housing units and is not a sale price.