Brown County
Kansas Property Tax Freedom Coalition
Local Chapter
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Property Tax History
In 2024, Brown County levied $24,611,686 in real and personal property tax. In 1985 the figure was $5,603,792. Over those 40 years the total grew 4.4 times over, an average of about 3.9% per year. The change from 2023 to 2024 was +2.3%.
"Property tax levied" is the total real and personal property tax billed countywide that year — not what any one homeowner paid, not adjusted for inflation or population, and it excludes motor vehicle property tax (taxed separately under K.S.A. 79-5100). A large single-year jump usually means a major new taxable property came onto the rolls. See How Property Tax Works for how an individual bill is calculated.
| Tax year | Property tax levied | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | $5,603,792 | n/a |
| 1986 | $5,760,779 | +2.8% |
| 1987 | $5,940,554 | +3.1% |
| 1988 | $6,084,323 | +2.4% |
| 1989 | $6,111,506 | +0.4% |
| 1990 | $6,326,319 | +3.5% |
| 1991 | $6,977,584 | +10.3% |
| 1992 | $5,601,870 | -19.7% |
| 1993 | $5,784,580 | +3.3% |
| 1994 | $6,462,390 | +11.7% |
| 1995 | $6,591,669 | +2.0% |
| 1996 | $6,874,044 | +4.3% |
| 1997 | $6,451,704 | -6.1% |
| 1998 | $6,658,261 | +3.2% |
| 1999 | $7,066,812 | +6.1% |
| 2000 | $7,439,764 | +5.3% |
| 2001 | $7,975,365 | +7.2% |
| 2002 | $8,137,461 | +2.0% |
| 2003 | $8,717,776 | +7.1% |
| 2004 | $9,423,450 | +8.1% |
| 2005 | $9,837,868 | +4.4% |
| 2006 | $10,203,433 | +3.7% |
| 2007 | $10,483,389 | +2.7% |
| 2008 | $11,822,753 | +12.8% |
| 2009 | $12,380,594 | +4.7% |
| 2010 | $13,550,663 | +9.5% |
| 2011 | $14,094,837 | +4.0% |
| 2012 | $14,624,147 | +3.8% |
| 2013 | $15,182,672 | +3.8% |
| 2014 | $15,722,652 | +3.6% |
| 2015 | $17,934,964 | +14.1% |
| 2016 | $17,962,946 | +0.2% |
| 2017 | $19,063,079 | +6.1% |
| 2018 | $19,977,441 | +4.8% |
| 2019 | $20,308,080 | +1.7% |
| 2020 | $20,713,871 | +2.0% |
| 2021 | $21,387,826 | +3.3% |
| 2022 | $22,596,371 | +5.7% |
| 2023 | $24,062,599 | +6.5% |
| 2024 | $24,611,686 | +2.3% |
What's Not Here Yet
Mill levies, appraised and assessed value, and delinquency/foreclosure records are still to come — those take county-by-county research and will be added with sources as they're confirmed. Tax years 1985–2013 come from a KDOR report no longer on the state's website (recovered from the Internet Archive); 2014–2024 from the reports still published, with overlapping years cross-checked between them.
Sources: Kansas Department of Revenue annual reports, 1985–2024. See Sources for full citations.