12/11/2025
A $350K house in Wichita, Sedgwick County has a $4354.03 property tax bill. ($348,600)
A $350K house in Oletha, Johnson County has a $4453.70 property tax bill. ($349,900)
The total mill levy on the Wichita house is 112.809
The total mill levy on the Oletha house is 114.968
The Wichita mill levy is 32.34
The Oletha mill levy is 23.334
Wichita has 7 property tax levies, State, County, City, and 4 USD School levies.
Oletha has 9 property tax levies, State, County, City, and 4 USD school levies, plus County Park, and Community College.
City Sales tax in Wichita - Zero (the only class 1 city in the State and has never had city sales tax)
City tax in Oletha is 9.475% - 6.5% State, 1.475% County, 1.5% City.
In 1985 Sedgwick county voted for a temporary 1% tax, shared evenly with Wichita.
This 1/2% share of the sales tax caused the mill levy for the City of Wichita to go down 8 mills.
Today the 1% Sales Tax proposal is expected to lower the mill just 4 mills, as per my city councilman.
4 mills lower property tax will lower your property tax bill 2.5%
$4354.03 to $4241.28
$4522.40
$4362.04
3.5% Total Property Tax Relief.
What do you plan to do with your $160.36 a year?
A 1% sales tax will do to Wichita what has been done to the State with internet sales tax collections—an expansion of "government" spending.
