Property Tax & Income in Oldham County, Texas
Oldham County has an effective property tax rate of 1.09%. On the median home value of $162,800, that's roughly $1,780 per year. Median household income is $79,900.
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 | Oldham County | Texas (state context) |
|---|---|---|
| Effective property tax rate1 | 1.09% | 1.18% |
| Median home value1 | $162,800 | — |
| 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 Oldham County, TX
Oldham County’s effective property tax rate of 1.093% sits below Texas’s statewide median of 1.183%, placing the county at 157th out of 250 ranked counties. That gap signals slightly gentler taxation than much of the state, though the difference is narrow. Measured against the national median of 0.794%, however, the county’s rate runs noticeably higher, a reflection of Texas’s broader reliance on property taxes. On a median home value of $162,800, owners pay about $1,780 annually. With median household income at $79,900 and per-capita income of $29,189, that bill amounts to roughly 2.2% of household earnings. Boys Ranch, the county’s principal community, sits within this landscape, where property taxes take a larger share of value than the national average but trail most Texas counties.