Many Counties around Austin some of the most expensive property taxes in US (Dallas: sales)

[CptnRn]

There is an interesting document here: The Tax Foundation - Property Taxes on Owner-Occupied Housing by County, 2005 - 2009, Ranked by Taxes as Percentage of Home Value

This doesn't tell you the whole story because it doesn't include City and School District Taxes.

You can search for the County name and find the "Median Taxes by home value" and "Median taxes as percent of income" for most counties in the US. It also provides a ranking of how it compares with other Counties in the US.

Looking up the highest counties (% of house value) in Texas I found these:

18 Fort Bend <--- 18 means 18th most expensive in the nation.
22 Tarrant
31 Williamson
32 Harris County
39 Web
44 Collin
47 Denton
48 Bexar
52 Rockwell
53 Dallas
60 Kaufman
68 Montgomery
73 Galveston
74 Hays
76 El Paso
83 Brazoria
88 Travis
99 Hidalgo
105 Bell
109 Bastrop
123 Ellis
130 Brazos

163 Guadalupe

I could not find some counties on the list such as Blanco, Caldwell and Lee. I gave up searching at this point

[rickc007]

House prices are low, so the high "percentage" is not that much of an issue.

What you save in "No State Income Tax" should easily pay for property tax.

[XLadylawX]

Here we go again. You've started another argument about statistics. The one thing about this subject is that it results in a Graduate Seminar discussion of Statistics and other such junk. Keeps me on my toes.

[atxcio]

Actually I think that list may include ISD and city tax. According to the list, Harris County is 2.15%. There is no way that is just the county; according to HCAD the county tax rate is only 0.39%. Similarly, it has Travis county at 1.85%.

Based on those #s -- I think it's probably a combination of county, possibly city and ISD taxes, with the homeowner's exemptions applied (probably on the median value). Possibly different taxing rates were considered and averaged throughout the county, which would include some that don't have the city tax and some that do, different ISDs, etc.

[mm57553]

If you look at ALL taxes (property, sales and state income) Texas actually has one of the lowest in the country.

[llkltk]

We don't pay state tax so it all evens out.