{"id":238587,"date":"2026-04-07T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:42:07","slug":"austin-property-taxes-vs-texas-cities-how-much-homeowners-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238587\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin property taxes vs Texas cities: How much homeowners pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas is known for relatively high property taxes <\/a>\u2014 driven in part by the absence of a state income tax \u2014 but the burden <\/a>varies widely by city.<\/p>\n

Edinburg ranked highest among Texas cities at No. 14 nationwide. In that South Texas city, homeowners with a mortgage spend about 5.3% of their income on property taxes, with a median annual bill of $4,366.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how Texas\u2019 largest cities compare.<\/p>\n

Among the state\u2019s biggest cities, Fort Worth ranked highest at No. 24 nationally, followed by El Paso (No. 28) and San Antonio (No. 35).<\/p>\n

Austin ranked No. 42, with homeowners paying about 4.7% of income toward property taxes. The median annual property tax bill in Austin is $8,172 \u2014 among the highest on the list.<\/p>\n

Other major cities include:<\/p>\n

In total, 27 Texas cities ranked among the top 100 for property tax burden.<\/p>\n

Behind Edinburg, Georgetown (No. 15), Conroe (No. 16) and Grand Prairie (No. 18) were among the highest-ranked in the state.<\/p>\n

Closer to Austin, Round Rock (No. 86) and Georgetown (No. 15) also made the list.<\/p>\n

At the lower end, Tyler (2.7%), Amarillo (3.2%) and Abilene (3.2%) had the smallest property tax burdens among Texas cities included in the study.<\/p>\n

Which U.S. cities have the highest property taxes?<\/p>\n

Nationally, Paterson, N.J. ranked No. 1, with property taxes consuming 9.8% of income.<\/p>\n

Several Northeast cities dominated the top of the list, including Bridgeport, Conn. (7.4%) and\u00a0Waterbury, Conn. (7.1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is known for relatively high property taxes \u2014 driven in part by the absence of a state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,102,116,56,82,2051,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-238587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-taxes","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238587","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=238587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}