Texas · County property tax · ACS 2024
Bastrop County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Bastrop County pays $4,453 a year, an effective rate of 1.41%, far above the U.S. average.
- $4,453
- Median tax / yr · Highest-decile bill
- 1.41%
- Effective rate · High rate
- +123%
- vs U.S. average
- #68 of 250
- rank in TX
The verdict
Homeowners in Bastrop County pay a median $4,453 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.41%, more affordable than 14% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $4,453
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.41%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2688 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- +123%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($314,800). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Texas. Population: 106,582. Owner-occupied homes: 28,186.
The median annual property tax in Bastrop County is $4,453, which is 5% higher than the Texas state average and 123% above the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.41% on a median home value of $314,800. Property taxes represent 5.2% of the median household income in this county.
Why Bastrop County's ACS bill runs high vs the U.S.
Primary signal
The bill sits well above the national median
Homeowners in Bastrop County pay a median annual property tax of $4,453, far above the national median and modestly above the Texas state median. On a $314,800 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.41% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 2
Income carries a heavy tax share
Property taxes in Bastrop County run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 5.2% of the $86,226 median household income.
Decision signal 3
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Bastrop County's 1.41% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 14%).
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Texas counties by effective rate
Bastrop County ranks #68 of 250 counties in Texas by effective rate (73% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Bastrop County as reported to the Census Bureau; your parcel can differ. Not tax, legal, or financial advice: check the county assessor or a qualified professional before decisions that depend on these numbers.
Most of the market's rise reached the bill
The effective rate here moved 11.9% down between 2020 and 2024, a smaller shift than in 51% of U.S. counties. With the median home value rose 58.0%, the median bill rose 39.1% to $4,453: the rate did comparatively little to offset the market.
Effective rate is the published median bill divided by the published median home value, so the two multiply back to the bill exactly; the rate's movement here is derived from those two figures rather than read from the rounded published rate. Both are ACS 5-year survey estimates for the median owner-occupied household, compared across non-overlapping releases. They describe what the Census published, not a local policy, assessment, or exemption change.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 39% from $3,201 to $4,453. These ACS medians describe the reported change; they do not identify whether a levy, assessment, home value, or change in the responding households caused it.
The heaviest band is also the fullest one here: 18,191 of 28,186 owner-occupied homes (64.5%) report annual real-estate taxes above $3,000. That band has no upper edge in the source, so the county median understates the burden carried by the plurality rather than describing it.
Both figures are in the national top quarter, and the median bill still equals only 5.2% of median household income. A high rate on high earnings produces a large dollar figure, and only the dollar figure tends to get quoted; the ratio above is the other half.
The share above is the median annual bill divided by median household income, a ratio of two county-level medians rather than a household-by-household figure.
What Bastrop County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Bastrop County homeowners, 18,191 of 28,186 owner-occupied homes (64.5%), pays $3,000 or more a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 7.2% (2,036)
- $800 to $1,499 5.0% (1,401)
- $1,500 to $1,999 4.3% (1,207)
- $2,000 to $2,999 13.0% (3,653)
- $3,000 or more 64.5% (18,191)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
1,698 homes here (6.0%) report no real estate tax at all. Exemptions are set by state: how Texas handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Bastrop County pay a substantially higher bill, 45% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Bastrop County's bill vs state & U.S. medians
Median annual bill bars around Bastrop County's HEAVY ACS 2024 figure.
Bastrop County's median bill is 5% above the Texas median and 123% above the U.S. median.
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Bastrop County moved from $3,201 in the 2020 release to $4,453 in 2024, a change of about 39%. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates compared across releases that share only one sample year, which is why this page never compares consecutive releases: those overlap in four years of the same households and move mostly on sampling.
Bastrop County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Bastrop County | Texas Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Highest-decile bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate High rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Highest-decile income burden | 5.2% | - | - |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates. Tax-burden differences across rows reflect millage decisions, assessment-ratio practices, and the residential-vs-commercial mix of each tax base.
Is Bastrop County's $4,453 median bill appeal-worthy?
At Bastrop County's $4,453 ACS median (HEAVY), a 10% assessment cut is worth about $445/yr before exemptions. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Texas.
Bastrop County bill trail · HEAVY
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4,453 +9.2% | 1.41% |
| 2023 | $4,077 +6.8% | 1.51% |
| 2022 | $3,816 +11.1% | 1.62% |
| 2021 | $3,436 +7.3% | 1.64% |
| 2020 | $3,201 | 1.61% |
Each row is a separate ACS 5-year release, and consecutive releases share four of their five survey years. The percentage beside each bill is therefore movement in the published estimate against the previous release, not a single year's tax change. The two releases largely describe the same households. For change over time, compare releases that do not overlap.
Bastrop County: tax takes 5.2% of income
Counties near Bastrop County's median bill
On effective rate, Bastrop County sits nearest Keith County (NE), Gage County (NE), Eaton County (MI).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Lincoln Parish (LA), White County (IN), McLeod County (MN).
How peers are chosen
These are the nearest cross-state matches in the published Census data, not neighboring counties or recommendations. Peers are rebuilt with each data release; see the calculation method.
Similar effective rates
Similar published median-tax changes, 2020–2024
Bastrop County: only 5% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 2,210 of 47,110 returns from Bastrop County reported real estate taxes, averaging $8,248 - 33% of those reporters sat in the $100-200k AGI band.
What this IRS county file does not say
Amounts are reported before the SALT cap, not deducted; the share is of filers, not homeowners. Source: IRS SOI county data, tax year 2022.
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Bastrop County bill FAQs
- How does Bastrop County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Bastrop County run far above the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.41% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Bastrop County, Texas?
- The median annual property tax in Bastrop County is $4,453, an effective rate of 1.41% on a $314,800 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Bastrop County?
- Property taxes in Bastrop County run a bit above the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 5.2% of the $86,226 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Bastrop County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Bastrop County jumped 39.1% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $3,201 to $4,453, a 4-year span. These are survey estimates covering five years each, so this compares the two releases furthest apart rather than consecutive ones, which overlap and would mostly measure the same households twice.
- What is the tax affordability score for Bastrop County?
- Bastrop County, Texas scores F (8/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 5 Census ACS dimensions (effective rate, bill size, income share, mortgage gap, and home-value/income). Its strongest scored dimension here is housing pressure at F (3.65×). The score compares published county medians to U.S. percentiles, it is not a personal bill and not advice to buy, sell, appeal, or relocate.
What to do with Bastrop County's HEAVY bill
Bastrop County's $4,453 median bill sits well above the U.S. median - size a personal estimate before treating the county headline as your budget. Estimate your bill →
Income burden is elevated here: about 5.2% of Bastrop County's $86,226 median household income goes to the property-tax bill.
Nationwide peers by median bill (then rate)
Bill-first peers for Bastrop County's HEAVY median, then a disjoint out-of-state rate set, not the same-state geography lattice.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 1.41%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $4,453/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Bastrop County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Bastrop County (STEEP · HEAVY), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
STEEP HEAVY
Hampden County, MA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $4,455/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 1.49% vs Bastrop County 1.41%.
Johnson County, KS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $4,447/yr (near-tied bill ABS $6); rate 1.14% vs Bastrop County 1.41%.
Monroe County, PA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $4,447/yr (near-tied bill ABS $6); rate 1.66% vs Bastrop County 1.41%.
Milwaukee County, WI
ABS(median_tax) peer · $4,444/yr (near-tied bill ABS $9); rate 1.93% vs Bastrop County 1.41%.
Texas county set
State ACS overview for every published Texas county rate and median bill.
Appeal filing windows
Bastrop County stamps STEEP · HEAVY - review notice deadlines before quoting the ACS median.
Data vintage and method
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
Property tax data reflects median amounts paid by homeowners. Effective rates are calculated as median tax divided by median home value.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, county median real-estate taxes · 2024 Bastrop County (STEEP · HEAVY) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.