Property Tax in Harrison County, Texas

What the Harrison County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Harrison County homeowners pay more than $1,811 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 $178,200, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 1.02%. 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.

Harrison County by the numbers

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

Harrison County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #134 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #90 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #52 of 250 (69,584 residents)
• Population density rank: #58 of 250 (77 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #145 of 250 (900 sq mi, 0.3% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $151; per $1,000 of home value: $1.02

How Harrison County compares

Set against its state, Harrison County's median bill of $1,811 is about 56% lower than the Texas median ($4,111). Against the country as a whole it is about 39% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #134 of 250 Texas counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Harrison County's median home, at $178,200, ranks #90 by value in Texas, while its derived rate of 1.02% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Harrison County: the median bill works out to about $151 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,016 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 69,584 people — the #52 most populous county in Texas, spread over 900 square miles, a density of about 77 people per square mile. Its median home value, $178,200, ranks #90 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Nationally, Harrison County's median bill of $1,811 ranks #1261 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 40% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 0.2% of Texas's population, its median home value is about 32% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 10.16% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Harrison County to the most expensive county, Travis County ($7,487), is $5,676 a year.

Counties nearest Harrison County in the Texas ranking

Harrison County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Harrison County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 69,584 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Harrison County's median bill of $1,811 is #7 of 9.

The closest population match is San Patricio County, Texas (69,519 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $2,754 on a median home value of $180,400 — $943 less than Harrison County pays.

Staying within Texas, the counties nearest Harrison County by population are Walker County (78,292 residents, median tax $2,312 on a median value of $207,900); Wise County (72,359 residents, median tax $3,293 on a median value of $277,200); San Patricio County (69,519 residents, median tax $2,754 on a median value of $180,400); Starr County (65,809 residents, median tax $1,047 on a median value of $93,300). 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

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. Harrison County's medians imply a derived rate of 1.02%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $4,064 a year, or around $339 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Harrison County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.02% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Harrison 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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

• San Patricio County, TX — $2,754
• Wise County, TX — $3,293
• Starr County, TX — $1,047
• Nacogdoches County, TX — $1,464
• Hood County, TX — $3,240
• Van Zandt County, TX — $2,204

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