Each town's taxable property per resident, set against the tax rate it charges on that property.
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Every town plotted by taxable property per resident (market value, horizontal, log scale) and equalized tax rate (vertical), for —. The dashed lines are the statewide medians, splitting the state into four quadrants: lower-left = smaller base, lower rate; lower-right = larger base, lower rate; upper-left = smaller base, higher rate; upper-right = larger base, higher rate.
Source: equalized net grand list and computed equalized rate from ct_equalized_rates.json (CT OPM 8rr8-a322 / he33-brru); population from the ACS via ct_town_income.json; the tax-exempt share in each tooltip and in the table from ct_tax_exempt_share.json, an extract of ct_grand_list_indicators.json (CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators: Economic and Grand List Data, xgef-f6jp), computed as exempt ÷ (exempt + taxable) assessed value on the — grand list. That share is on the assessed basis, not market value, and is shown beside the ranking rather than ranked. The horizontal axis is logarithmic because the base per resident spans more than a tenfold range.
The market value of each town's taxable property divided by its population, for the — grand list. Sorted lowest to highest.
Source: same files as above. Market value, not assessed value, so towns are comparable regardless of revaluation timing.
All towns with tax base per resident, equalized rate, which quadrant each falls in, and the share of each town’s assessed property that is tax-exempt on the — grand list. The exempt share is context for the taxable base, not a ranking: rank and sort order follow the tax base per resident only.
Tax base per resident = equalized net grand list (OPM's market-value estimate of all taxable property, built from actual sales ratios) ÷ ACS population. Tax rate is the equalized rate from the tax-rates page: total levy per $1,000 of that same market value.
Quadrants are defined by the statewide medians of the two measures, so by construction about half the state falls on each side of each line. A town near a median line is effectively on the line — the quadrant label is a reading aid, not a category with a threshold that means anything by itself.
Why the two measures move together: the levy is the numerator of one axis and the base is the denominator of both. A town that raises a given budget from a big base needs fewer mills, so property-rich towns cluster toward lower rates. The tooltip carries each town's levy per resident, so towns off that pattern can be read against what their combination raises.
Tax-exempt share (a table column and a tooltip line, not ranked) = OPM's Tax exempt property assessment ÷ Total exempt and taxable property assessment × 100, from the Municipal Fiscal Indicators economic and grand-list file (xgef-f6jp), on the latest October 1 grand list it publishes. It is on the assessed basis — 70% of market value as of the town's last revaluation — so it is comparable across towns as a share but not in dollars, and it is a share of the value on the rolls, not of what the town collects. It sits beside the ranking because the taxable base on this page is what remains after exempt property is set aside: two towns of similar size and total value can hold different taxable bases per resident when one holds a large share of exempt property. The state's payments in lieu of taxes on some exempt property are not netted out, and the share is not a measure of any town decision. The file's own percent column is rounded to the nearest whole percent in its earlier years, which is why the share is computed from the two dollar figures.
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