Property tax appeals in Jefferson

The Cook County Assessor's own record of what happened to appeals filed on properties in Jefferson township.

14.8%of appeals won a reduction 14.2%–15.3% at 95%

15,889appeals decided 3 still open

6.6%typical cut, when one was won median over 2,345 reductions

Jefferson against the county as a whole: a real difference of 1.9 points — 14.8% here against 16.7% county-wide.

Does hiring someone help?

Whether an agent helps is not settled here: the advantage has changed sides between years, ahead in 2 and behind in 3. A single combined figure would report whichever side the window happened to favour.

2021: +3.22022: -3.62023: -5.82024: +3.32025: -1.8

Each year: how many percentage points better an agent did than an owner filing alone. Negative means the owner did better.

Firms that file on your behalf commonly take a third of the first year's saving. This is the county's own record of how the two groups actually did.

The reasons the Assessor gave

Every decision carries a stated reason. These are the ones that appear most often on Jefferson decisions, and how often each was attached to a reduction rather than a refusal.

Reason given	Decisions	Reduced
This is a result of a market analysis of your property as well as an analysis of comparable properties.	12,842	12.6%
This is due to income, market or cost analysis supporting the assessment.	964	0.0%
This is due to an analysis of the actual sale transaction of the property.	551	0.0%
This result is based upon consideration of the appraisal submitted and an analysis of recent comparable property sales.	378	0.0%
This is the result of an income, market or cost analysis.	234	100.0%

A reason seen fewer than 30 times shows no rate, for the same reason a township with a handful of appeals shows none.

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Source. Cook County Assessor, published appeal decisions (dataset y282-6ig3). Counted, not modelled. Undecided appeals are excluded from rates rather than counted as losses. Rates carry a 95% Wilson interval and none is shown below 30 decided appeals.