Texas · County property tax · ACS 2024
Brooks County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Brooks County pays $1,060 a year, an effective rate of 1.31%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,060
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.31%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -47%
- vs U.S. average
- #86 of 250
- rank in TX
The verdict
Homeowners in Brooks County pay a median $1,060 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.31%, more affordable than 18% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,060
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.31%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2558 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -47%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($81,000). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Texas. Population: 6,943. Owner-occupied homes: 1,572.
The median annual property tax in Brooks County is $1,060, which is 75% lower than the Texas state average and 47% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.31% on a median home value of $81,000. Property taxes represent 2.2% of the median household income in this county.
Brooks County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Brooks County's 1.31% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 18%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Brooks County pay a median annual property tax of $1,060, well below the national median and far below the Texas state median. On a $81,000 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.31% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Near the middle of Texas counties by effective rate
Brooks County ranks #86 of 250 counties in Texas by effective rate (66% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Brooks County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $47,764 median household income.
Decision signal 5
The latest release held the bill roughly steady
Since 2023, the published ACS median estimate has held roughly steady, up 1.7%, from $1,042 to $1,060. This compares two release estimates; it does not identify a local policy, assessment, exemption, or household-bill cause.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Brooks 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.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 64% from $647 to $1,060. 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 largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 677 of 1,572 owner-occupied homes (43.1%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
This is the least forgiving PAIRING in the data, bottom-quartile household income with a top-quartile effective rate, putting the median bill at 2.2% of median household income. Neither figure is remarkable on its own; the combination is, and the ratio above is the only part of it a household actually feels.
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 Brooks County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Brooks County homeowners, 677 of 1,572 owner-occupied homes (43.1%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 43.1% (677)
- $800 to $1,499 17.7% (279)
- $1,500 to $1,999 12.0% (189)
- $2,000 to $2,999 9.0% (142)
- $3,000 or more 8.5% (134)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
151 homes here (9.6%) 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 Brooks County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+91%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Brooks County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Brooks County's effective rate is higher than 66% of the 250 counties in Texas - ranking #86 of 250.
Where Brooks County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.31% more affordable than 18% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Brooks County moved from $647 in the 2020 release to $1,060 in 2024, a change of about 64%. 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.
Brooks County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Brooks County | Texas Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate High rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.2% | - | - |
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.
Brooks County's STEEP · LIGHT lane - is an appeal worth running?
On Brooks County's published figures (STEEP · LIGHT), a $81,000 median home carries a $1,060 median bill, so every 10% off an assessed value is worth about $106 a year at the same rate. Appeal Savings Estimator · appeal guide for Texas.
Brooks County rate trail · STEEP
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,060 +1.7% | 1.31% |
| 2023 | $1,042 +33.6% | 1.26% |
| 2022 | $780 +14.9% | 0.97% |
| 2021 | $679 +4.9% | 0.97% |
| 2020 | $647 | 1.01% |
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.
Brooks County: tax-to-income at 2.2%
Counties near Brooks County's effective rate
On effective rate, Brooks County sits nearest Walworth County (SD), Wyoming County (PA), Lycoming County (PA).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Chowan County (NC), Ouachita Parish (LA), Valley County (MT).
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
IRS county file: no disclosed Brooks County Schedule A rows
The IRS county file records no returns reporting real estate taxes on Schedule A for Brooks County. That is a limit of the published data rather than a finding about the county: county-level figures are withheld where the counts are too small to disclose safely, which is common in places with few filers. Roughly one county in sixteen is in this position, so the filer view available elsewhere on this site is simply not available here. Source: IRS Statistics of Income county data.
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Brooks County rate FAQs
- How does Brooks County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Brooks County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.31% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the average property tax in Brooks County, Texas?
- The median annual property tax in Brooks County is $1,060, an effective rate of 1.31% on a $81,000 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- Are property taxes increasing in Brooks County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Brooks County is recorded at $1,060 in the 2024 5-year release against $647 in 2020. That is a large swing, and it should be read as movement in a survey estimate rather than as a tax change: the median here rests on about 1,572 owner-occupied homes, and swings above 50% are roughly twelve times more common in the smallest counties than in the largest. Treat the two figures as imprecise and check the county assessor for actual rate changes.
- What is the tax affordability score for Brooks County?
- Brooks County, Texas scores D (48/100) 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 A+ (1.70×). 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 percentage of income goes to property taxes in Brooks County?
- Property taxes in Brooks County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.2% of the $47,764 median household income.
What to do with Brooks County's STEEP rate
Brooks County's $1,060 median bill sits well below the U.S. median - still size a parcel estimate; local millage and exemptions move the real bill. Estimate your bill →
Brooks County ranks #86 of 250 Texas counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Texas overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Brooks County's STEEP effective rate, then a disjoint out-of-state bill set so the two neighborhoods stay distinct.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 1.31%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,060/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Brooks County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Brooks County (STEEP · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
STEEP LIGHT
Butte County, ID
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,061/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.49% vs Brooks County 1.31%.
Emmons County, ND
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,063/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.91% vs Brooks County 1.31%.
Pulaski County, KY
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,057/yr (near-tied bill ABS $3); rate 0.63% vs Brooks County 1.31%.
Cherokee County, NC
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,064/yr (near-tied bill ABS $4); rate 0.46% vs Brooks County 1.31%.
Texas county set
State ACS overview for every published Texas county rate and median bill.
Appeal filing windows
Brooks County stamps STEEP · LIGHT - 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 Brooks County (STEEP · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.