Property Tax in Tom Green County, Texas

What the Tom Green County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Tom Green County pay more than $2,523, and half pay less. Your own bill is set by your home's assessed value, the exemptions you qualify for, and the local taxing districts your property sits in — so individual bills vary widely around the median.

Dividing the median tax by the median home value gives a derived effective rate of 1.35% for Tom Green County. It is an estimate built from two survey medians, not the county's official rate, but it is a fair way to compare the local tax burden with other counties where home values are very different.

Tom Green County by the numbers

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

Tom Green County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #61 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #79 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #38 of 250 (119,398 residents)
• Population density rank: #57 of 250 (78 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #17 of 250 (1,522 sq mi, 0.6% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $210; per $1,000 of home value: $1.35

How Tom Green County compares

The median tax bill in Tom Green County is about 39% lower than the state median ($4,111 for Texas) and about 15% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #61 out of 250 Texas counties with published Census data — 60 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. Tom Green County's derived rate of 1.35% sits above the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Tom Green County: the median bill works out to about $210 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,351 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 119,398 people — the #38 most populous county in Texas, spread over 1,522 square miles, a density of about 78 people per square mile. Its median home value, $186,700, ranks #79 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Nationally, Tom Green County's median bill of $2,523 ranks #664 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 21% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 0.4% of Texas's population, its median home value is about 28% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 13.51% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Tom Green County to the most expensive county, Travis County ($7,487), is $4,964 a year.

Counties nearest Tom Green County in the Texas ranking

Tom Green County and its population peers

For a like-for-like sense of scale, compare Tom Green County with its national population peers: the counties nearest to its 119,398 residents, listed in the table below with their own Census medians. Of the 9 counties in that group, Tom Green County's median bill of $2,523 is #7 of 9.

The closest population match is Douglas County, Kansas (119,547 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $3,508 on a median home value of $281,600 — $985 less than Tom Green County pays.

Inside Texas itself, the counties closest to Tom Green County in population are Wichita County (129,842 residents, median tax $2,501 on a median value of $141,600); Gregg County (124,860 residents, median tax $2,271 on a median value of $185,800); Rockwall County (116,931 residents, median tax $6,341 on a median value of $386,000); Potter County (116,634 residents, median tax $2,028 on a median value of $134,900). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

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 1.35%, each $100,000 of value corresponds to about $1,351 of tax a year, and a $400,000 home to roughly $5,404. 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 Tom Green County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.35% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Tom Green 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 Tom Green 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 Tom Green 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

• Rockwall County, TX — $6,341
• Potter County, TX — $2,028
• Gregg County, TX — $2,271
• Wichita County, TX — $2,501
• Hunt County, TX — $2,736
• Bastrop County, TX — $4,077

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