By Emma Loura

Property owners in Riley County will see an average 5% increase in their county taxes in 2026 after county officials on Monday approved publishing a public hearing notice for its new budget.

The mill levy for the 2026 budget is 37.951, a 0.002 mill decrease from 2025, when the mill levy was 37.953. A mill is $1 in taxes for every 1,000 in assessed, taxable property value.

That means the average owner of a home worth $100,000 who paid $436.46 in property taxes for 2025 would pay $458.25 in 2026 for a home now worth $105,000, given the average increase of an existing, single-family home in the county.

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By Ned Seaton

The property tax rate paid by Manhattan residents again ranks in the middle of the pack for comparable Kansas cities, according to data obtained by The Manhattan Mercury.

Manhattan’s rate — which combines the taxes levied by the city government, the county government and the local public school system — ranks 14th among the 26 so-called “first-class” cities in the state, according to a Mercury analysis of data from the League of Kansas Municipalities. Those are the largest cities in the state.

That means residents in 13 cities — including Topeka, Emporia, Garden City, Dodge City, Hutchison and Kansas City, Kansas — have to pay higher overall property tax rates. Twelve have lower rates, including Junction City, which ranks one spot lower than Manhattan.

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