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A recent study indicates that property owners in Blair and Bedford counties receive statewide among the highest value for their property taxes.

Financial technology company SmartAsset found the places in Pennsylvania where residents receive the most value for what they pay in property taxes.

Bedford County ranked fifth best and Blair County ranked 10th best in Pennsylvania (See accompanying chart).

First, the study used the number of households, median home value and average property tax rate to calculate a per-capita property tax collected for each county.

As a way to measure the quality o...