Houston, Texas property tax rate (2025)
The City of Houston adopted a property tax rate of 0.519% of assessed value for tax year 2025 — the 5th-highest of the 15 taxing cities in Montgomery County. The city line is only one layer: a Houston address also pays the county rate, a school district rate, and any special district that contains the parcel.
- City rate, total
- 0.519%
- Maintenance & operations
- 0.403%
- Interest & sinking
- 0.116%
- Rank among the 15 cities
- 5th highest
- Districts listing Houston
- 119
- Their principal outstanding
- $16,665,000
What the city rate costs on $300,000
The Houston city levy alone on a $300,000 assessed value is $1,558 a year. Stacked with the rates every parcel in the county pays, the running total before the school district line is:
| Taxing unit | Rate | On $300,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County | 0.377% | $1,131 |
| Lone Star College System | 0.106% | $318 |
| Montgomery County Hospital District | 0.047% | $142 |
| City of Houston | 0.519% | $1,558 |
| Partial stack | 1.049% | $3,149 |
Add the school district rate — the largest single line on most Texas bills — from the school district table, and any special district rate that applies to the parcel. Figures exclude exemptions.
Where the city levy goes
0.403% of the rate funds maintenance and operations; 0.116% services voter-approved debt.
Special districts listing Houston
119 special districts list Houston as their city in the Comptroller's district database, reporting $16,665,000 of principal outstanding between them: 108 municipal utility districts, 4 municipal management districts, 3 water control and improvement districts, 2 others, 1 drainage district, 1 road utility district. The city field records the district's own filing, so treat this as a roster of filings, not a map — a parcel inside city limits can still sit in a district that filed elsewhere.
| Highest-rate districts | Type | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Colton Municipal Utility District No. 2 | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
| East Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 13 | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
| East Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 13A | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
| East Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 14 | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
| Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 185 | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
Every district's rate and debt is on the district index and in the open data.
Why Houston appears on a Montgomery County tax table
Houston sits on this table because the Comptroller's 2025 Montgomery County table lists the City of Houston among the county's taxing cities. The 119 special districts listing Houston as their city are a different matter: the city field records each district's own filing, and a filing address does not say where the district levies. 108 of the 119 are municipal utility districts. Read the count as a fact about filings — only the appraisal district record for a specific parcel says which districts actually contain it.
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Sources
- Texas Comptroller Property Tax Assistance Division — Property Tax Rates and Levies — retrieved 2026-08-04. Adopted rates for tax year 2025. Rates for the following year are adopted between August 15 and September 30 and are not published by PTAD until the following January.
- Texas Comptroller Special Purpose District Public Information Database — retrieved 2026-08-04. Self-reported by each district to the Texas Comptroller and not independently verified by the Comptroller.
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