During the fourth quarter of 2025, homeowners in Virden paid property taxes amounting to 1.7% of their home’s value, a rate nearly 1.9 times higher than the national average, data from BlockShopper.com show.
Data indicate the median home sales price in Virden for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $100,000, with 17 properties sold. The city’s median property tax bill for 2025 stood at $1,655, reflecting a 1.7% rate based on median property values.
The average effective property tax rate for the U.S. in 2024 was reported as 0.888%.
Within Macoupin County, Palmyra, Shipman and Girard posted the highest effective property tax rates among cities in the region.
This article’s effective property tax rate for 2025 is derived from estimated inflation calculations and county-reported tax data from 2023. Some variances in the actual effective tax rate may occur.
According to Redfin, U.S. median home prices continued increasing in 2025, reaching around $447,000 as of June—a 1.13% rise from the previous year. The data further reflect a wide gap between market supply and demand, with sellers outnumbering buyers by 36%, resulting in a surplus of 508,715 homes. Redfin classifies a balanced market as one in which the seller and buyer populations are within 10% of each other.
The table below provides a comparison of Palmyra and other Macoupin County cities, using median effective property tax rates from sales and tax data for the fourth quarter of 2025.
| City | Q4 2025 Sales | Q4 2025 Median Price | Median tax 2025 | Effective tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmyra | 3 | $7,500 | $805 | 10.7% |
| Shipman | 2 | $34,125 | $1,291 | 3.8% |
| Girard | 7 | $50,000 | $1,493 | 3% |
| Bunker Hill | 7 | $105,900 | $2,161 | 2% |
| Mount Olive | 10 | $75,000 | $1,508 | 2% |
| Virden | 17 | $100,000 | $1,655 | 1.7% |
| Brighton | 9 | $148,000 | $2,426 | 1.6% |
| Carlinville | 21 | $132,000 | $1,840 | 1.4% |
| Wilsonville | 4 | $62,353 | $794 | 1.3% |
| Gillespie | 13 | $107,500 | $1,297 | 1.2% |
| Staunton | 28 | $149,950 | $1,604 | 1.1% |
| Benld | 9 | $87,000 | $852 | 1% |
| Medora | 2 | $120,450 | $957 | 0.8% |
