Property Tax & Income in Armstrong County, Texas
Armstrong County has an effective property tax rate of 1.23%. On the median home value of $171,500, that's roughly $2,111 per year. Median household income is $72,750.
What you'll pay, at a glance
Property taxes are the largest local tax most homeowners pay. The effective rate measures the real tax bill as a share of home value — a more useful number than the nominal “mill rate,” because assessment practices vary county to county.
| Metric | Armstrong County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.23% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $171,500 | — |
| State income tax3 | No state income tax | No state income tax |
| State sales tax3 | 8.20% combined | 8.20% combined |
How this is calculated
The effective property tax rate is the median real-estate tax bill divided by the median home value — both for owner-occupied homes, from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 5-year estimates)1. Median income is also from the ACS1. Federal and state income-tax figures use IRS2 and Tax Foundation3 data.
About Armstrong County, TX
Armstrong County’s effective property tax rate of 1.231% sits above Texas’s statewide median of 1.183%, placing it 114th among the state’s 250 counties. That ranking puts it in the middle of the pack within Texas, though the gap over the state figure is narrow. Against the national median of 0.794%, the county’s rate is substantially higher, a pattern common across much of Texas, where property taxes carry more of the local revenue load. On a median home value of $171,500, the annual tax bill comes to about $2,111. With median household income at $72,750 and per-capita income of $35,686, that bill amounts to a noticeable slice of yearly earnings. Communities such as Claude, Wayside, and Groom share this tax structure, and the rate signals that homeowners here should expect property taxes to weigh more heavily than they would in many other parts of the country.