Property Tax in Angelina County, Texas

What the Angelina County numbers mean

Read the two medians together: $1,872 is the middle tax bill among owner-occupied households in Angelina County, and $149,800 is the middle home value. Neither figure describes a specific property — together they describe the typical homeowner's situation in the county.

The derived effective rate for Angelina County is 1.25% (median tax ÷ median value). Treat it as an estimate for comparison only: it comes from survey medians of different households, not from the county's rate schedule.

The key figures for Angelina County

For context, the Texas medians are $4,111 of tax on $260,400 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Angelina County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #126 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #139 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #46 of 250 (86,791 residents)
• Population density rank: #44 of 250 (109 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #195 of 250 (797 sq mi, 0.3% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $156; per $1,000 of home value: $1.25

How Angelina County compares

The median tax bill in Angelina County is about 54% lower than the state median ($4,111 for Texas) and about 37% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #126 out of 250 Texas counties with published Census data — 125 counties in the state have a higher median bill.

Comparisons cut both ways: a county can have a modest rate but high bills because homes are expensive, or a high rate but modest bills because homes are cheaper. Angelina County's derived rate of 1.25% sits above the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Angelina County: the median bill works out to about $156 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,250 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 86,791 people — the #46 most populous county in Texas, spread over 797 square miles, a density of about 109 people per square mile. Its median home value, $149,800, ranks #139 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Nationally, Angelina County's median bill of $1,872 ranks #1193 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 38% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 0.3% of Texas's population, its median home value is about 42% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 12.50% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Angelina County to the most expensive county, Travis County ($7,487), is $5,615 a year.

Counties nearest Angelina County in the Texas ranking

Angelina County and its population peers

Population is a useful lens on these figures, so the table below sets Angelina County beside the counties closest to it in population anywhere in the country — communities of a similar scale operating under different state and local tax systems. Ranked by median tax paid within this peer group of 9, Angelina County's $1,872 bill is #7 of 9.

The closest population match is Island County, Washington (86,747 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $3,765 on a median home value of $535,300 — $1,893 less than Angelina County pays.

Staying within Texas, the counties nearest Angelina County by population are Bowie County (92,321 residents, median tax $2,091 on a median value of $161,300); Victoria County (91,281 residents, median tax $2,941 on a median value of $197,600); Orange County (84,993 residents, median tax $2,036 on a median value of $163,400); Coryell County (83,772 residents, median tax $2,509 on a median value of $177,400). The spread in their median bills — all under the same state framework — shows how much of the property tax burden is decided county by county and district by district.

How the tax is worked out

The bill is built in stages. First the assessor puts a market value on the property. Exemptions — a homestead exemption above all — then reduce the taxable amount. Finally the combined local rate is applied. To see the scale: at the county's derived rate of 1.25%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $1,250 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $5,000. Real bills use the official assessment and district rates, not this derived figure, so treat the example as a sense of scale only.

Illustrative bills in Angelina County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.25% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Angelina County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 1.58% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Angelina County

Believe your assessment is too high? The practical order of attack is: obtain your record card and audit it line by line; collect comparable recent sales in Angelina County; ask the assessor's office to correct anything plainly wrong; and, if the value still seems off, lodge a formal appeal ahead of the deadline printed on your assessment notice. Windows are short — often 30 to 90 days — and late appeals are usually rejected outright, however strong the case.

More Texas counties

• Orange County, TX — $2,036
• Coryell County, TX — $2,509
• Henderson County, TX — $1,859
• Victoria County, TX — $2,941
• Bowie County, TX — $2,091
• Walker County, TX — $2,312

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