Property Tax & Income in Hockley County, Texas
Hockley County has an effective property tax rate of 1.39%. On the median home value of $127,000, that's roughly $1,760 per year. Median household income is $63,140.
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 | Hockley County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.39% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $127,000 | — |
| 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 Hockley County, TX
Hockley County’s effective property tax rate of 1.386% sits above Texas’s statewide median of 1.183%, and it ranks 70th among the state’s 250 counties. That places it in the higher half of Texas counties, though not at the extreme. The gap with the national median of 0.794% is wider still, meaning homeowners here pay a notably larger share of their property’s value in taxes than the average American. On a median home value of $127,000, that rate produces an annual tax bill of about $1,760. With median household income at $63,140 and per-capita income at $32,179, the tax load is meaningful but not overwhelming relative to local earnings. Communities such as Anton, Pep, and Ropesville fall within this county, where property taxes run above both state and national norms.