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Clinton County

How property tax rates have changed, what’s taxed, what the county spends, and what the state sends it. Open a city for where its tax dollar goes.

Property tax rates over time

Typical combined rate per $1,000 of taxable value, and the county government’s own rural levy (part of the rural rate).

In citiesRuralCounty levy
0$15$30$45$60’20’22’24’26’27In citiesRuralCounty levy
0$15$30$45$60’20’21’22’23’24’25’26’27In citiesRuralCounty levy
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YearIn citiesRuralCounty’s rural levy
FY27$40.51$25.83$9.54
FY26$39.24$26.77$9.85
FY25$39.59$26.30$10.07
FY24$40.02$26.21$10.23
FY23$39.69$26.60$10.71
FY22$37.80$26.81$10.65
FY21$37.26$25.97$9.94
FY20$38.01$26.68$10.44

Cities, FY27

Typical combined rate in each city, per $1,000 of taxable value.

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CityTypical rateSince FY22
Andover$31.26-4.4%
Calamus$31.27-0.6%
Camanche$38.73+4.5%
Charlotte$33.84+1.0%
Clinton$40.51-1.0%
De Witt$36.87-2.5%
Delmar$34.75+13.8%
Goose Lake$33.88-0.2%
Grand Mound$33.58-0.6%
Lost Nation$30.21-4.2%
Low Moor$30.90-2.3%
Maquoketa$33.29-8.4%
Toronto$32.47+6.8%
Welton$31.66-5.4%
Wheatland$32.98+4.2%

What’s taxed

$2.82B of taxable value in 2025 valuations, +14.0% since 2020. Who carries the load, by kind of property:

  • Homes$1.48B49%
  • Farmland and farm buildings$585.7M20%
  • Commercial$417.3M14%
  • Industrial$272.2M9%
  • Utilities, railroads and other$247.3M8%

Taxable value over time

HomesBusinessFarmland
0$500.0M$1.00B$1.50B$2.00B20182020202220242025HomesBusinessFarmland
0$500.0M$1.00B$1.50B$2.00B20182019202020212022202320242025HomesBusinessFarmland
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Valuation yearHomesFarmlandCommercialIndustrialTotal
2025$1.48B$585.7M$417.3M$272.2M$2.82B
2024$1.46B$568.7M$383.0M$258.1M$2.75B
2023$1.42B$552.5M$389.9M$253.8M$2.70B
2022$1.44B$552.7M$356.3M$229.3M$2.67B
2021$1.21B$524.5M$396.0M$258.9M$2.49B
2020$1.20B$532.7M$383.4M$254.8M$2.47B
2019$1.16B$515.6M$365.7M$232.6M$2.37B
2018$1.17B$509.7M$363.6M$247.2M$2.39B

The county’s budget

Clinton County plans to spend $43.5M in FY27, from property taxes, state and federal money, fees and its reserves. It spent $41.9M in FY25.

  • Public safety & legal services$13.6M31%
  • Roads & transportation$9.3M21%
  • Administration$5.6M13%
  • Capital projects$5.0M11%
  • Physical health & social services$2.9M7%
  • Parks, libraries, extension & environment$2.9M7%
  • Debt payments$2.5M6%
  • Services to residents (records, elections, licenses)$1.6M4%

Its property tax levies, FY27

Dollars per $1,000 of taxable value. Everyone in the county pays the countywide levies; people outside cities also pay the rural ones, which mostly pay for roads and rural services.

  • General Basic · countywide$3.97
  • General Supplemental · countywide$2.15
  • Debt Service · countywide$0.80
  • Pioneer Cemetery · countywide$0.01
  • Countywide · countywide$6.93
  • Rural Basic · rural$2.61
  • Total Rural · rural$9.54

From county budgets and annual financial reports filed with the Department of Management.

Local option sales tax collected

The extra local sales tax voters here approved, collected by the state and paid back to the county and its cities.

$8.4M
’14’16’18’20’22’24
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YearCollected
FY24$8.4M
FY23$7.6M
FY22$7.5M
FY21$7.8M
FY20$7.4M
FY19$6.5M
FY18$6.4M
FY17$6.2M
FY16$6.3M
FY15$6.3M
FY14$6.4M

State payments to the county and its cities

Local option sales tax the state collected for them, and property tax credits it pays on residents’ behalf. The newest year may be partial.

$14.3M
$1.1M
’20’21’22’23’24’25’26’27

Who received them, FY26

  • Clinton County$5.8M49%
  • City of Clinton$4.5M39%
  • City of Camanche$781,1357%
  • City of Wheatland$121,6401%
  • City of Grand Mound$96,7801%
  • City of Delmar$90,2111%
  • City of Lost Nation$70,5481%
  • City of Charlotte$60,4341%
  • City of Calamus$58,6231%
  • City of Low Moor$39,3600%
  • City of Goose Lake$36,8870%
  • City of Welton$19,3110%
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ProgramFY27FY26FY25FY24FY23FY22FY21FY20
Local option sales tax$608,605$8.1M$8.1M$8.4M$7.8M$8.1M$8.3M$6.5M
Homestead property tax credit–$2.8M$2.7M$2.6M$2.6M$2.6M$2.5M$2.5M
Ag land and family farm tax credits$510,387$787,138$739,442$735,745$673,954$652,932$640,366$626,716
Business property tax credit––$2.1M$2.5M$2.1M$2.0M$2.0M$2.0M
Elderly and disabled property tax credit–$77,590$76,102$85,882$81,972$83,862$78,320$83,292
Military service property tax credit–––$28,051$29,409$30,576$31,640$32,652

Local elections

Most recent: November 3, 2026

County offices · 4
Townships · 21

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                                  Local races from civicAPI for Clinton County. Results for local races can take weeks to appear; official results are on each county auditor’s site. Officials shown are the winners of the latest election we have for each seat; appointments and resignations may not be reflected.

                                  School districts

                                  School districts that tax property in Clinton County.

                                  Calamus-WheatlandCamancheCentral ClintonCentral DewittClintonDelwoodEast CentralMaquoketaMidlandNortheastPreston

                                  Typical rates are medians across the county’s tax districts, leaving out TIF districts and farmland inside cities. Data from the Iowa Data Hub (Departments of Management and Revenue).