Magnolia, Texas property tax rate (2025)
The City of Magnolia adopted a property tax rate of 0.228% of assessed value for tax year 2025 — the 14th-highest of the 15 taxing cities in Montgomery County. The city line is only one layer: a Magnolia address also pays the county rate, a school district rate, and any special district that contains the parcel.
- City rate, total
- 0.228%
- Maintenance & operations
- 0.095%
- Interest & sinking
- 0.132%
- Rank among the 15 cities
- 14th highest
- Districts listing Magnolia
- 7
- Their principal outstanding
- $20,027,934
What the city rate costs on $300,000
The Magnolia city levy alone on a $300,000 assessed value is $683 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 Magnolia | 0.228% | $683 |
| Partial stack | 0.758% | $2,274 |
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
0.132% of the rate is interest and sinking against 0.095% for maintenance and operations — more of the city levy services voter-approved debt than funds day-to-day operations, and the debt half cannot fall below what bond covenants require.
Special districts listing Magnolia
7 special districts list Magnolia as their city in the Comptroller's district database, reporting $20,027,934 of principal outstanding between them: 5 municipal utility districts, 1 emergency services district, 1 other. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Decker Prairie Municipal Utility District | Municipal Utility District | 1.500% |
| Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 136 | Municipal Utility District | 1.300% |
| Montgomery County Municipal Utility District #141 | Municipal Utility District | 1.220% |
| Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 125 | Municipal Utility District | 1.150% |
| Montgomery County Emergency Services District #10 | Emergency Services District | 0.092% |
Every district's rate and debt is on the district index and in the open data.
A rate that is mostly debt service
Magnolia's 0.228% ranks 14th of the fifteen — near the bottom — but its composition is unusual: 0.132% of it, 58%, is interest and sinking, repaying voter-approved debt, against 0.095% for operations. Only 2 of the fifteen cities adopted a rate where debt service outweighs operations, and Magnolia is one of them. The 7 districts listing Magnolia report $20,027,934 outstanding — the 2nd-largest summed figure of the fifteen.
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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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