Tax Bill Comparisons Shows Dedham Families Pay About Average Bill in Norfolk County
Dedham is ranked 12 out of 27 for the highest average tax bill in Norfolk county.
If your tax bill seemed too hefty this year, given the increase many homeowners absorbed, it may not help to look at the average bill for other towns in Norfolk County.
According to a spreadsheet based on information published by the state Division of Local Services, Dedham is 12th to Dover for the highest average single-family tax bill in the county at $5,937.
In order of most to least expensive, here are the average single-family tax bills for other local towns and Norfolk County for 2013:
Norfolk County:
Dover: 12,790
Wellesley: 12,198
Cohasset: 10,468
Westwood: 9,287
Medfield: 8,859
Sharon: 8,583
Needham: 8,416
Milton: 7,471
Norfolk: 7,186
Medway: 6,336
Walpole: 6,231
Dedham: 5,937
Canton: 5,729
Wrentham: 5,573
Millis: 5,540
Foxborough: 5,466
Franklin: 4,990
Quincy: 4,597
Plainville: 4,572
Holbrook: 4,190
Stoughton: 4,110
Randolph: 4,087
Norwood: 4,034
Avon: 3,888
Braintree: 3,814
Bellingham: 3,710
Weymouth: 3,634
Other Local Towns
| Easton | 5,848 |
| Mansfield | 5,370 |
| Raynham | 4,291 |
| Norton | 4,200 |
| North Attleborough | 4,059 |
| Rehoboth | 3,974 |
| Dighton | 3,906 |
| Seekonk | 3,722 |
| Freetown | 3,472 |
| Attleboro | 3,456 |
| Acushnet | 3,380 |
| Dartmouth | 3,239 |
| Taunton | 3,124 |
| Swansea | 3,055 |
| Fairhaven | 2,795 |
| New Bedford | 2,763 |
| Fall River | 2,505 |
Note: Data for Berkley, Someset, Brookline, and Westport was not available.
Kate Savage
8:42 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
This list is inaccurate. For example, Seekonk and Swansea is in Bristol county not Norfolk but they show up twice.
Tamara Starr
9:30 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
The chart is now correct.
Dan O'Neil
10:08 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Wow an you wonder why 10 houses went up for sale in Dedham in the last few weeks.
Avon Barksdale
11:35 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
I would like to thank Patch for providing absolutely zero contextual analysis to accompany these figures. You know, things like the average or median value of single-family homes in each town. Comparisons of town services offered, and which ones are covered via taxation versus municipal "fees" not included in the tax bill.
No no, it's much better just as a standalone chart so that people can yell MUH DAMN TAXES R TOO HIGH. Great work.
Dan O'Neil
2:41 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Avon you make a good point. Some towns have more growth some have less, some have more munical fees than others. Simply speaking Dedham's taxes are relatively high, but over the past 6/7 years we built 2 brand new schools, there is my favorite subject, the square, and we had the football field project and the dolan center. We have a lot of projects that we are paying for and there is talk of doing renovations to Dexter and building a new police station. So the tax situation isn't getting better anytime soon. The problem is there was too much of nothing done for too many years and now with all of this improvement in seuch a short time it's a big hit as opposed to if it was mismanaged for so long and these projects had started 10-15 years ago and it was a slow steady increase you wouldn't hear as many complaints.
Dan Teahan
11:13 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The real numbers are Dedham 15.79, Westwood 14.89, Boston 13.14, Needham 11.30, and Norwood 11.04. That is the Tax per $1000 from the States Data for comparison to "our nieghbors". Good thing our home Values are not going up.
:https://dlsgateway.dor.state.ma.us/gateway/Public/WebForms/TaxRate/ReportTRApprovalPublic.aspx