Property taxes nationwide have increased since before the pandemic. Between 2019 and 2023, the median value of annual property taxes increased nearly 25%.

Trailing not-far-behind are the many Jefferson, Franklin, Jackson and Lincoln counties. That's according to the map below, from Metric Maps (on Twitter @MetricMaps).Other oft-used names (see the ...

Using Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here's the map, with said counties shaded in. Below ...