Property Tax & Income in Kaufman County, Texas
Kaufman County has an effective property tax rate of 1.68%. On the median home value of $320,900, that's roughly $5,377 per year. Median household income is $89,485.
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 | Kaufman County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.68% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $320,900 | — |
| 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 Kaufman County, TX
In Kaufman County, Texas, the median home value sits at $320,900, with an annual property tax bill around $5,377 based on an effective rate of 1.676%. That rate ranks 16th among the state's 250 counties and lands well above Texas's 1.183% median, so buyers here should expect to pay more than the average Texan toward property taxes. Nationally, the gap is wider still, since the U.S. median effective rate is just 0.794%. Households earning the median income of $89,485 would devote roughly six percent of that to real-estate taxes alone. Per-capita income comes in at $34,359. For anyone weighing a move to Forney, Crandall, Kaufman, or elsewhere in the county, the tradeoff is clear: home prices remain below many major metro areas, but the tax rate adds meaningfully to the yearly cost of ownership.