Illinois residents pay a higher tax rate on real estate than the residents of every other state except New Jersey, the personal finance website WalletHub reports. A survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia showed Hawaii had the lowest effective real estate tax rate at 0.28%, New Jersey had the highest at 2.49% and Illinois had the second-highest at 2.27%. The annual taxes on a $217,500 home — the median house value in the United States as of 2019, the last year with available data — was $606 in Hawaii, $5,419 …