By Jeanne Sahadi | CNNMoney
If you don’t want to grind your teeth at night over your property tax bill, steer clear of Manhattan’s New York suburbs and those in northern New Jersey.
They’re home to the three counties that charge the highest average property taxes in the country.
By contrast, a number of counties in Alabama and Louisiana have some of the lowest.
Those are among the findings of a new residential property tax study from the Tax Policy Center, which analyzed data from the American Community Survey.
Across the United States as a whole, between 2007 and 2011, 60% of counties reported average property tax burdens of between $500 and $1,500 a year.
That might cover one month’s tax burden for many homeowners in one of the three most expensive counties: Westchester County, N.Y. ($9,647 a year); Nassau County, N.Y., ($9,080) and Bergen County, N.J. ($8,893).
