Albers property owners paid 1.5% of their home’s value in property taxes for the fourth quarter of 2025, which amounts to more than 1.7 times the national average, according to BlockShopper.com.
Data from the three homes sold in Albers during this period show a median sales price of $274,000 in the fourth quarter of 2025. The median tax bill in the city reached $4,171 in 2025, representing 1.5% of the median taxed home value.
The U.S. average effective property tax rate was 0.888% in 2024.
Within Clinton County, New Baden, Aviston, and Centralia posted the highest median property tax rates.
This article calculates the effective property tax rate for 2025 using estimated inflation adjustments and 2024 county tax data. Actual rates may differ slightly in some situations.
U.S. home prices kept climbing in 2025, and the national median rose to about $447,000 in June. That reflects a 1.13% increase compared to a year before, according to Redfin. Redfin’s figures also indicate a notable mismatch between supply and demand, with 36% more homes listed for sale than buyers (a difference of 508,715 properties). Redfin classifies a balanced housing market as one in which the seller and buyer counts are within 10% of each other.
The table below presents a comparison of New Baden to certain other Clinton County cities with respect to their median effective property tax rates, based on home sale and tax data for the fourth quarter of 2025.
| City | Q4 2025 Sales | Q4 2025 Median Price | Median tax 2025 | Effective tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Baden | 9 | $135,000 | $3,405 | 2.5% |
| Aviston | 8 | $164,365 | $3,804 | 2.3% |
| Centralia | 2 | $31,000 | $611 | 2% |
| Carlyle | 4 | $123,000 | $2,218 | 1.8% |
| Breese | 15 | $225,000 | $3,939 | 1.8% |
| Trenton | 9 | $193,000 | $3,281 | 1.7% |
| Bartelso | 3 | $189,000 | $3,242 | 1.7% |
| Germantown | 3 | $190,000 | $3,150 | 1.7% |
| Albers | 3 | $274,000 | $4,171 | 1.5% |
| Beckemeyer | 5 | $140,000 | $1,856 | 1.3% |