Property Tax in Bexar County, Texas

What the Bexar County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Bexar County homeowners pay more than $4,429 a year and half pay less. The exact bill for any one home depends on its assessed value, exemptions, and which school, municipal and special districts cover it.

Set against the median home value of $244,100, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 1.81%. That rate is an estimate computed from the two medians — no county publishes a rate calculated this way — but it adjusts for home prices, which makes comparisons between counties more meaningful.

Bexar County by the numbers

*Estimate derived from Census medians (tax ÷ value), not an official rate.

Bexar County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #18 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #43 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #4 of 250 (2,037,344 residents)
• Population density rank: #4 of 250 (1,643 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #36 of 250 (1,240 sq mi, 0.5% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $369; per $1,000 of home value: $1.81

How Bexar County compares

Of the 250 Texas counties with published data, 17 have a higher median property tax bill than Bexar County's $4,429, putting the county at #18 in the state. Its bill is about 8% higher than the state median of $4,111 and about 49% higher than the national median of $2,969.

Rates and values pull in opposite directions: an expensive housing market can produce big bills at ordinary rates. Here the derived rate is 1.81%, versus 0.98% derived nationally, and the median home value ranks #43 within Texas.

Some extra context for Bexar County: the median bill works out to about $369 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,814 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 2,037,344 people — the #4 most populous county in Texas, spread over 1,240 square miles, a density of about 1,643 people per square mile. Its median home value, $244,100, ranks #43 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Nationally, Bexar County's median bill of $4,429 ranks #174 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 6% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 6.9% of Texas's population, its median home value is about 6% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 18.14% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Bexar County to the most expensive county, Travis County ($7,487), is $3,058 a year.

Counties nearest Bexar County in the Texas ranking

How the tax is worked out

Think of the final bill as three ingredients: the assessed value of the property, the exemptions subtracted from it, and the combined rate of every district the property sits in. Bexar County's medians imply a derived rate of 1.81%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $7,256 a year, or around $605 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Checking your assessment in Bexar County

If your bill looks wrong, work through these steps:

1. Get your property record card from the assessor and check the basics — living area, lot size, bedrooms, condition, and any exemptions you should have.
2. Compare your assessed value with recent sale prices of similar homes in Bexar County.
3. Talk to the assessor's office informally first; clear errors are often fixed without a hearing.
4. If needed, file a formal appeal with the local review board before the deadline on your assessment notice, with your evidence attached.
5. Keep paying the bill as issued while the appeal runs, unless your notice says otherwise — unpaid taxes accrue penalties regardless of an appeal.

More Texas counties

• Tarrant County, TX — $5,211
• Dallas County, TX — $4,668
• Travis County, TX — $7,487
• Collin County, TX — $7,432
• Denton County, TX — $6,943
• Hidalgo County, TX — $2,187

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