Property Tax in Gregg County, Texas

What the Gregg County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Gregg County homeowners pay more than $2,271 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 $185,800, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 1.22%. 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.

The key figures for Gregg 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.

Gregg County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #80 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #80 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #37 of 250 (124,860 residents)
• Population density rank: #16 of 250 (457 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #243 of 250 (273 sq mi, 0.1% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $189; per $1,000 of home value: $1.22

How Gregg County compares

Set against its state, Gregg County's median bill of $2,271 is about 45% lower than the Texas median ($4,111). Against the country as a whole it is about 24% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #80 of 250 Texas counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Gregg County's median home, at $185,800, ranks #80 by value in Texas, while its derived rate of 1.22% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Gregg County: the median bill works out to about $189 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,222 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 124,860 people — the #37 most populous county in Texas, spread over 273 square miles, a density of about 457 people per square mile. Its median home value, $185,800, ranks #80 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Nationally, Gregg County's median bill of $2,271 ranks #856 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 27% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 0.4% of Texas's population, its median home value is about 29% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 12.22% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Gregg County to the most expensive county, Travis County ($7,487), is $5,216 a year.

Counties nearest Gregg County in the Texas ranking

Gregg County and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Gregg County in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Gregg County ($2,271) ranks #3 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Richland County, Ohio (125,138 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,984 on a median home value of $154,000 — $287 more than Gregg County pays.

Staying within Texas, the counties nearest Gregg County by population are Grayson County (139,988 residents, median tax $2,953 on a median value of $228,300); Wichita County (129,842 residents, median tax $2,501 on a median value of $141,600); Tom Green County (119,398 residents, median tax $2,523 on a median value of $186,700); Rockwall County (116,931 residents, median tax $6,341 on a median value of $386,000). 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 1.22%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $1,222 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $4,888. 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 Gregg County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.22% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Gregg 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 Gregg 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 Gregg 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

• Wichita County, TX — $2,501
• Tom Green County, TX — $2,523
• Rockwall County, TX — $6,341
• Potter County, TX — $2,028
• Grayson County, TX — $2,953
• Randall County, TX — $3,587

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