Property Tax in Wichita County, Texas

What the Wichita County numbers mean

A median is the middle household: half of owner-occupied households in Wichita County pay more than $2,501, 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 1.77% for Wichita 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.

The key figures for Wichita 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.

Wichita County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Texas: #65 of 250 counties
• Median home value rank in Texas: #149 of 250
• Population rank in Texas: #36 of 250 (129,842 residents)
• Population density rank: #31 of 250 (207 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Texas: #223 of 250 (627 sq mi, 0.2% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $208; per $1,000 of home value: $1.77

How Wichita County compares

Set against its state, Wichita County's median bill of $2,501 is about 39% lower than the Texas median ($4,111). Against the country as a whole it is about 16% lower than the US median ($2,969). That places the county #65 of 250 Texas counties ranked by median taxes paid.

Remember what drives the ranking: bills follow home values as much as rates. Wichita County's median home, at $141,600, ranks #149 by value in Texas, while its derived rate of 1.77% compares with a derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Wichita County: the median bill works out to about $208 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $1,766 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 129,842 people — the #36 most populous county in Texas, spread over 627 square miles, a density of about 207 people per square mile. Its median home value, $141,600, ranks #149 among the state's 250 counties with data.

Zooming out: of 3133 counties nationwide with published Census figures, only 682 record a higher median tax bill than Wichita County — it sits in the top 22% nationally. The county holds roughly 0.4% of Texas's people. Its homes are worth less than the state norm (median $141,600 versus $260,400), and a decade at the derived rate of 1.77% adds up to about 17.66% of the median home's value in tax. The cheapest county in the state, Crockett County, medians $466 — $2,035 less than Wichita County per year.

Counties nearest Wichita County in the Texas ranking

Wichita County and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Wichita County in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Wichita County ($2,501) ranks #7 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Linn County, Oregon (129,794 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $3,130 on a median home value of $344,600 — $629 less than Wichita County pays.

Staying within Texas, the counties nearest Wichita County by population are Randall County (143,791 residents, median tax $3,587 on a median value of $227,500); Grayson County (139,988 residents, median tax $2,953 on a median value of $228,300); Gregg County (124,860 residents, median tax $2,271 on a median value of $185,800); Tom Green County (119,398 residents, median tax $2,523 on a median value of $186,700). 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

As an illustration of the arithmetic: at Wichita County's derived rate of 1.77%, a home valued at $400,000 would carry a tax bill of roughly $7,064 a year. That is only an illustration using the derived rate — a real bill is computed from the property's assessed value, its exemptions, and the combined rates of its specific taxing districts, so it can be higher or lower.

The usual sequence is: the local assessor values the property; exemptions are applied; the taxable value is multiplied by the combined local rates; and the county bills and collects the tax, distributing it to the schools, municipalities and districts that levied it.

Illustrative bills in Wichita County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 1.77% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Wichita 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 Wichita 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 Wichita 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

• Gregg County, TX — $2,271
• Grayson County, TX — $2,953
• Tom Green County, TX — $2,523
• Rockwall County, TX — $6,341
• Potter County, TX — $2,028
• Randall County, TX — $3,587

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