Property Tax & Income in Jackson County, Texas
Jackson County has an effective property tax rate of 1.02%. On the median home value of $203,900, that's roughly $2,085 per year. Median household income is $65,414.
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 | Jackson County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.02% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $203,900 | — |
| 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 Jackson County, TX
Jackson County’s effective property tax rate of 1.023% sits below Texas’s statewide median of 1.183%, placing it 180th among the state’s 250 counties. Against the national median of 0.794%, however, the county’s rate runs noticeably higher, a pattern common across much of Texas. On a median home value of $203,900, that rate yields an annual real-estate tax bill of about $2,085. Households here earn a median of $65,414, with per-capita income at $33,242. Edna, the largest of the county’s communities, along with Ganado and Francitas, anchors a rural stretch of Southeast Texas where property taxes take a somewhat smaller share of value than in many neighboring counties, though they remain above what homeowners elsewhere in the country pay.