Highest real estate mills: Luzerne County, PA 2025-26
Real estate mills across 8 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania school districts, 2025-26. Hanover Area SD leads at 18.774 mills. PDE; ranked by DistrictFacts.
- Districts ranked
- 8
- Period
- 2025-26
- Publication floor
- 8 districts
- Tie rule
- Equal values share a rank; the next rank skips.
- County definition
- The county holding the largest share of the district's land area (NCES EDGE, 2024–25).
Real estate tax rate in mills set in the district's own General Fund Budget and reported to PDE for 2025-26. One mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed value. Counties, not districts, set assessed values and assess at different fractions of market value, so mills are not comparable between counties.
Measure: Real estate tax rate.
Source: PDE.
Mills are not comparable between counties.
Ranked districts
- 1. Hanover Area SD — 18.774 mills
- 2. Wyoming Valley West SD — 18.481 mills
- 3. Wilkes-Barre Area SD — 18.433 mills
- 4. Pittston Area SD — 16.541 mills
- 5. Dallas SD — 14.988 mills
- 6. Northwest Area SD — 14.798 mills
- 7. Crestwood SD — 12.918 mills
- 8. Greater Nanticoke Area SD — 12.808 mills
Not ranked
- Berwick Area SD — The state's file lists 2 figures for this measure here: Columbia County: 53.41 mills; Luzerne County: 13.13 mills. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.
- Hazleton Area SD — The state's file lists 3 figures for this measure here: Carbon County: 28.09 mills; Luzerne County: 14.088 mills; Schuylkill County: 40.073 mills. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.
- Lake-Lehman SD — The state's file lists 2 figures for this measure here: Luzerne County: 12.143 mills; Wyoming County: 65.3441 mills. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.
- Wyoming Area SD — The state's file lists 2 figures for this measure here: Luzerne County: 21.789 mills; Wyoming County: 108.6909 mills. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.