Property Tax & Income in Bexar County, Texas
Bexar County has an effective property tax rate of 1.73%. On the median home value of $262,200, that's roughly $4,535 per year. Median household income is $72,341.
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 | Bexar County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.73% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $262,200 | — |
| 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 Bexar County, TX
In Bexar County, Texas, the median home value of $262,200 carries a median annual real-estate tax bill of $4,535, which works out to an effective rate of 1.730%. That rate sits well above the statewide median of 1.183% and ranks 10th among Texas's 250 counties, so buyers in San Antonio and the surrounding communities should expect property taxes to take a bigger bite than in much of the state. Against a median household income of $72,341, the annual tax bill amounts to roughly 6.3% of income. The county's per-capita income of $36,702 suggests many households earn less than the median. Nationally, the picture looks steeper still: the median effective rate is 0.794%, less than half of what Bexar County property owners pay. Lower home prices than many coastal markets offset some of that load, but the tax rate itself remains a real cost of ownership here.