{"id":114337,"date":"2026-01-07T17:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:39:06","slug":"texas-cities-with-highest-property-tax-burdens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114337\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas cities with highest property tax burdens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/property-tax-burden-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SmartAsset.com<\/a>, Texas in 2025 made up 20% of the top 20 cities with the highest property tax burden in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburg, Georgetown, Conroe and Grand Prairie are all on the list, each coming in at over 5% of taxes related to total income. Topping the list is Paterson, N.J., where that number is nearly 10% and where residents pay a median of $9,779 in yearly property tax.<\/p>\n<p>Though Edinburg is the highest on the list for Texas cities, with a median of $4,366 paid per year, the highest median property tax by number in Texas is Georgetown, where homeowners pay an average of $6,493 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Other states with multiple cities on the list include Connecticut, New Jersey, and California.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, the data was collected as part of the 2024 U.S. Census and included 343 cities with a population of over 100,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 According to a report from SmartAsset.com, Texas in 2025 made up 20% of the top 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[132,5604,102,8082,138,140,139,1062,2349,223,8075,82,27,50353],"class_list":["post-114337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-austin","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-dallas","tag-dfw-what-you-need-to-know","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-mike-dalonzo","tag-money","tag-news","tag-rotx-what-you-need-to-know","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-your-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}