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Travis County, Texas · your tax bill

Your tax bill, explained

A homestead in the City of Austin and Austin ISD. Enter your own assessed value to see where every dollar of your property tax goes — and how it compares with each government’s “no-raise” rate. Updated 2026-10-06.

$4,413 a year — about $368 a month

On an assessed value of $300,000, as a homestead. An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Of every $100 you pay

Austin ISD$33.30 · $1,469 a year

City of Austin$31.54 · $1,392 a year

Travis County$21.00 · $927 a year

Central Health (Travis County Healthcare District)$7.23 · $319 a year

Austin Community College$6.93 · $306 a year

Where it ends up — every government’s share, by what it pays for

Running the schools$28.84 · $1,273

City services$24.18 · $1,067

County services$18.48 · $815

Paying off bonds (debt)$15.76 · $696

Hospital and health district$6.72 · $297

Community college$6.02 · $266

Each unit’s rate is split into its maintenance-and-operations (M&O) part and its interest-and-sinking (I&S) part — the I&S part pays debt.

The “no-new-revenue” rate — Texas’s no-raise rate

Texas’s version of the “no-raise” rate is the no-new-revenue rate: the rate that would bring each taxing unit the same tax as last year from the same properties. Texas law makes each unit publish it; going above the higher voter-approval rate generally needs an election.

At these rates you pay $110.57 more a year than you would at every government’s no-raise rate.

City of Austin $0.5799 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.5355 per $100	+$106.76
Central Health (Travis County Healthcare District) $0.1329 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.1186 per $100	+$34.15
Travis County $0.3862 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.3782 per $100	+$19.27
Austin Community College $0.1036 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.1059 per $100	−$6.73
Austin ISD $0.9184 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.9452 per $100	−$42.88

Texas taxing units adopt rates each August and September after public hearings; school districts and colleges set their own. Districts without a published no-raise rate here aren’t in the comparison. Meetings are on the calendar.

Each government, line by line

Austin ISD — $1,469 a year

$0.9184 per $100 on $160,000 of taxable value · adopted Sept 24, 2026 (district resolution); the county table was still blank · Austin ISD 2026 tax rate resolution

Austin ISD — operations (M&O)$1,273

Austin ISD — debt (I&S)$197

City of Austin — $1,392 a year

$0.5799 per $100 on $240,000 of taxable value · 2026 adopted · Travis County Tax Office — 2026 Truth-in-Taxation rate table

City of Austin — operations (M&O)$1,067

City of Austin — debt (I&S)$325

Travis County — $927 a year

$0.3862 per $100 on $240,000 of taxable value · 2026 adopted · Travis County Tax Office — 2026 Truth-in-Taxation rate table

Travis County — operations (M&O)$815

Travis County — debt (I&S)$112

Central Health (Travis County Healthcare District) — $319 a year

$0.1329 per $100 on $240,000 of taxable value · 2026 adopted · Travis County Tax Office — 2026 Truth-in-Taxation rate table

Central Health (Travis County Healthcare District) — operations (M&O)$297

Central Health (Travis County Healthcare District) — debt (I&S)$22

Austin Community College — $306 a year

$0.1036 per $100 on $295,000 of taxable value · 2026 adopted · Travis County Tax Office — 2026 Truth-in-Taxation rate table

Austin Community College — operations (M&O)$266

Austin Community College — debt (I&S)$40

What this doesn’t show — the honest limits

Fees and assessments on the same bill — stormwater, trash, street lights and others — aren’t property taxes and aren’t included.
Senior, veteran, widow and disability exemptions aren’t modeled.
Homestead exemptions shown are the general ones; over-65, disabled and veteran exemptions and school tax ceilings aren’t modeled.
Homes inside a municipal utility district or emergency services district pay more; this example has neither.
Spreading a government’s tax across its whole budget is a fair picture, not a receipt: most budgets also run on other money (sales tax, state aid, fees).

Related: Tax lab — change the rates · The money trail · What if we saved?. This page computes and cites; it doesn’t say what any rate should be. Spot an error? Report it.