Texas · County property tax · ACS 2024
Childress County Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Childress County pays $1,496 a year, an effective rate of 1.19%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,496
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 1.19%
- Effective rate · High rate
- -25%
- vs U.S. average
- #125 of 250
- rank in TX
The verdict
Homeowners in Childress County pay a median $1,496 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 1.19%, more affordable than 24% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,496
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 1.19%
- Effective rate on median home
- #2395 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -25%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($125,400). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Texas. Population: 6,743. Owner-occupied homes: 1,305.
The median annual property tax in Childress County is $1,496, which is 65% lower than the Texas state average and 25% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 1.19% on a median home value of $125,400. Property taxes represent 2.6% of the median household income in this county.
Childress County's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Childress County's 1.19% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 24%).
Decision signal 2
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Childress County pay a median annual property tax of $1,496, well below the national median and far below the Texas state median. On a $125,400 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 1.19% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 3
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Childress County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.6% of the $58,654 median household income.
Decision signal 4
Near the middle of Texas counties by effective rate
Childress County ranks #125 of 250 counties in Texas by effective rate (50% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Childress 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.
The rate gave way faster than almost anywhere
Between the 2020 and 2024 releases the median home value in Childress County rose 44.5%, from $86,800 to $125,400. The effective rate fell 38.2% over the same span, a steeper move than in 99% of U.S. counties.
The median bill still fell 10.7%, to $1,496. Where the rate drops this far and the bill rises anyway, what changed is the value the rate is applied to.
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
This is one of the counties where the typical bill came down, from $1,675 in 2020 to $1,496 in 2024, a fall of 11%. The source reports the change but does not distinguish among rate, value, or household-composition effects.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 369 of 1,305 owner-occupied homes (28.3%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
A top-quartile rate meets below-median earnings here, and the median bill reaches 2.6% of median household income. A rate ranking places this county by the rate alone; the ratio above is the figure that accounts for what is earned here.
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.
The published bill went DOWN here
Between the 2020 and 2024 ACS releases the median annual property tax in Childress County fell from $1,675 to $1,496, a change of -10.7%. Fewer than three counties in a hundred recorded any decline over this period; nearly everywhere else the published figure rose. A fall can reflect reassessment, a shifting mix of the homes surveyed, or genuine rate relief, and these estimates cannot separate those causes.
What Childress County Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Childress County homeowners, 369 of 1,305 owner-occupied homes (28.3%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 28.3% (369)
- $800 to $1,499 18.2% (237)
- $1,500 to $1,999 7.4% (97)
- $2,000 to $2,999 18.4% (240)
- $3,000 or more 20.4% (266)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
96 homes here (7.4%) 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 Childress County pay more than double the bill of those without one (+167%), the widest kind of value gap this dataset tracks.
Childress County's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Childress County's effective rate is higher than 50% of the 250 counties in Texas - ranking #125 of 250.
Where Childress County sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
1.19% more affordable than 24% of 3,135 U.S. counties
Show national distribution
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
Below Texas on both measures
Childress County's effective rate runs 20% under the Texas median and its bill 65% under. Both sitting on the same side means the gap is not a valuation artefact: a county can post a low rate purely because its homes are expensive, but then the bill rises to meet the state. Here it does not, so the $1,496 median bill reflects a genuinely lighter charge than the Texas norm rather than a different denominator. Compare it against the state page before reading anything into the county rank.
Childress County vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Childress County | Texas Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate High rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Above-median income burden | 2.6% | - | - |
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.
Childress County is PAR · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Texas counties.
Childress County rate trail · PAR
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,496 -11.7% | 1.19% |
| 2023 | $1,694 -12.7% | 1.47% |
| 2022 | $1,941 +5.0% | 1.75% |
| 2021 | $1,849 +10.4% | 1.84% |
| 2020 | $1,675 | 1.93% |
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.
Childress County: tax-to-income at 2.6%
Counties near Childress County's effective rate
On effective rate, Childress County sits nearest Crawford County (OH), Clark County (OH), Foster County (ND).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Lake County (TN), Chase County (KS), Sumter County (GA).
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
Childress County: only 2% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 50 of 2,440 returns from Childress County reported real estate taxes, averaging $4,540 - 60% of those reporters sat in the $75-100k 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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Childress County rate FAQs
- How does Childress County property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Childress County run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 1.19% versus 0.92% nationally.
- What is the tax affordability score for Childress County?
- Childress County, Texas scores F (39/100) 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- (2.14×). 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 is the average property tax in Childress County, Texas?
- The median annual property tax in Childress County is $1,496, an effective rate of 1.19% on a $125,400 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Childress County?
- Property taxes in Childress County run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.6% of the $58,654 median household income.
- Are property taxes increasing in Childress County?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Childress County declined 10.7% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,675 to $1,496, 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 to do with Childress County's PAR rate
Childress County's $1,496 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 →
Childress County ranks #125 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 Childress County's PAR 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: 1.19%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,496/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Childress County
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Childress County (PAR · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
PAR LIGHT
Power County, ID
ABS(median_tax) peer · tied with Childress County at $1,496/yr; rate 0.70% vs Childress County 1.19%.
Escambia County, FL
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,495/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.58% vs Childress County 1.19%.
Harper County, KS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,495/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 1.78% vs Childress County 1.19%.
Page County, VA
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,497/yr (near-tied bill ABS $1); rate 0.64% vs Childress County 1.19%.
Texas county set
State ACS overview for every published Texas county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Childress County stamps PAR · LIGHT - how assessed value and millage become the ACS median bill.
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 Childress County (PAR · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.