Angelina County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Angelina County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Angelina County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~2.09% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, and the Angelina College district on a City of Lufkin / Lufkin ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.09% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.429041 / $100	Angelina County government portion only (M&O $0.414144 + Debt $0.014897; adopted at the voter-approval rate)
Community college	$0.165952 / $100	Angelina College district; levies on parcels across the county
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 2.00% City of Lufkin and local components; groceries and most unprepared food exempt
Homestead Exemption	$140,000 school + 10% cap	Statutory school-district homestead; over-65 owners get an additional $60,000 school exemption. Local-option unit exemptions may apply (amounts pending confirmation).
Due Date	January 31	Delinquent February 1; statewide protest deadline May 15

Angelina County Property Tax

Angelina County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.429041 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Angelina County government's portion. Your actual bill is the sum of every overlapping taxing unit that covers your parcel: your school district, your city, the county, and the community-college district. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Angelina County is about 1.09% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $1,775 divided by median home value $163,500). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Angelina County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Angelina County's own rate is mostly maintenance-and-operations - an M&O rate of $0.414144 plus a small debt rate of $0.014897, which the county totals to $0.429041 and adopted at its voter-approval rate for 2025. What makes an Angelina County bill distinctive is the fourth unit: Angelina College, the county's public community college, levies $0.165952 on parcels across the county, so a Lufkin parcel stacks four taxing units where many Texas counties stack three. Beyond the college, the county also contains several small special districts - a Fresh Water District and a Water Control & Improvement District - that levy only on the specific parcels they cover.

How a typical Angelina County (Lufkin) bill is built (taxing-unit stack)

School district City County Community college

City of Lufkin / Lufkin ISD parcel - adopted rates per $100 (2025 tax year)

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Lufkin ISD	$0.971428	School
City of Lufkin	$0.528215	City
Angelina County	$0.429041	County
Angelina College	$0.165952	College
Nominal total	~$2.094636	~2.09%

Rates from the Angelina County Tax Assessor-Collector 2025 adopted-rate notice, the Angelina County Appraisal District, and Lufkin ISD. This example is for a City of Lufkin / Lufkin ISD parcel; your total depends on your city, school district, and any special district, but the Angelina College district applies across the county. Other school districts in the county include Hudson, Diboll, Huntington, Central, and Zavalla ISD (the highest school rate). Some areas add a city or a small water district.

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Lufkin ISD ~46.4% City ~25.2% County ~20.5% College ~7.9%

On a typical City of Lufkin / Lufkin ISD parcel, Lufkin ISD is about 46.4% of the nominal bill ($0.971428 / $2.094636 nominal total), the City of Lufkin about 25.2%, Angelina County about 20.5%, and Angelina College about 7.9%. Percentages are rounded and use the nominal posted rates before any exemption - after the $140,000 school-district homestead exemption, the taxable amount on the school line drops sharply, which is part of why the county's typical effective rate (about 1.09%) sits far below the nominal stacked rate (about 2.09%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Angelina County

• The Angelina County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at angelinacad.org.
• The Angelina County Tax Assessor-Collector collects the property tax and handles vehicle registration and titling, at angelinacounty.net/tax (936-634-8376).

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Angelina County Tax Assessor-Collector.

Homestead exemption, the 10% cap, and key dates

If you own and occupy your home as your principal residence on January 1, you can claim a residence homestead exemption, and you generally apply through the Angelina County Appraisal District. For a Lufkin ISD parcel, the statewide school-district exemption removes $140,000 from the value the school district taxes for the 2025 tax year. If the owner is 65 or older, an additional $60,000 ISD exemption applies.

Some local units (the county, the city, the college district, and the school district) may also grant their own local-option homestead exemptions. We were unable to confirm the exact Angelina County, City of Lufkin, Angelina College, and Lufkin ISD local-option amounts from an official per-entity table in this pass, so the calculator below models only the statutory school-district homestead and treats its output as the conservative (high) end. Confirm the exact local-option exemptions on your account with the Angelina County Appraisal District.

Separately, the 10% homestead appraisal cap limits how much your homestead's appraised (taxed) value can rise to 10% per year, not counting new improvements. The cap applies to the appraised value used for your bill, not the market value the appraisal district sets, and it starts the year after you first qualify for the homestead exemption.

Key dates: payment is due January 31 and unpaid amounts become delinquent February 1. The statewide protest deadline is May 15 or 30 days after your appraisal notice is delivered, whichever is later. Texas Tax Code Section 1.06 rolls any deadline that falls on a weekend or holiday to the next business day. We were not able to extract an Angelina County-specific penalty-and-interest schedule from an official source in this pass, so no penalty percentages are stated on this page.

How to protest your appraisal

Protests go to the Angelina County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at angelinacad.org. Some private firms offer to handle protests for a percentage of any tax savings; such firms exist and charge a contingency fee, but we do not cite any savings figure or success rate as fact - results vary by parcel and year.

Estimate your Angelina County property tax

Sources: the Angelina County 2025 adopted-rate notice (county rate), the Angelina County Appraisal District (appraised values and the Lufkin-area unit rates), the Texas Comptroller (sales tax), and Census ACS 2024 5-year estimates (typical effective rate). See the tax guides for how Texas homestead, protest, and appraisal-cap rules work.

Vehicle Taxes in Texas

Unlike many states, Texas does not levy an annual value-based property tax on cars or other vehicles. There is no yearly "car tax" bill in Angelina County. Instead, vehicle taxes in Texas work two ways:

• One-time motor-vehicle sales/use tax of 6.25% at purchase. For a private-party sale, the tax is charged on the greater of the actual sales price or 80% of the vehicle's Standard Presumptive Value (SPV). A vehicle received as a gift is taxed at a flat $10 instead.
• A flat annual registration fee (plus any local add-ons), which is a fixed fee, not a tax on the vehicle's value. In Angelina County you register and title through the Angelina County Tax Assessor-Collector.

So if you searched for a Texas car or vehicle sales tax, the answer is the one-time 6.25% charged when the vehicle is titled - there is no recurring vehicle property tax to budget for each year.

Angelina County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Lufkin is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate plus a 2.00% local share, which goes to the City of Lufkin and its local special-purpose components. Texas law caps that total local portion at 2.0% as a shared ceiling, so once the local rate reaches 2%, no further local rate can stack on top - which is why 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here as everywhere else in Texas.

City of Lufkin (Angelina County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
City of Lufkin and local special-purpose components	2.00%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows. The exact breakdown of Lufkin's 2.00% between the general city rate and its economic-development / special-purpose portions is confirmed as totalling 2.00% but its precise split is pending confirmation from the Texas Comptroller's official allocation. Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $163,500 Lufkin Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $163,500 City of Lufkin / Lufkin ISD home (the county median value) with a homestead exemption (owner under 65), applying only the school-district homestead to the school unit:

• Market value: $163,500.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Lufkin ISD taxable value to $23,500. The other three units tax the full $163,500 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $23,500 × 0.971428% = ~$228; city $163,500 × 0.528215% = ~$864; county $163,500 × 0.429041% = ~$701; college $163,500 × 0.165952% = ~$271.
• Estimated annual bill: about $2,064 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $172 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.26% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $1,775 (roughly 1.09% effective). This homesteaded example on the county median home value comes in a little higher because the full four-unit Lufkin stack (a full-service city plus the college district) is above the county-wide average mix, and many Angelina County parcels are lower-value or more heavily exempt. A non-homestead $163,500 parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~2.09%, or about $3,425. Any local-option homestead exemptions we could not confirm would push a real homesteaded bill lower still.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district, city, and any special district covering your parcel; a Hudson, Diboll, Huntington, Central, or Zavalla parcel uses a different city/school stack, though the Angelina College district applies across the county.
• Local-option homestead exemptions (and over-65, disability, and disabled-veteran exemptions) vary by unit and were not confirmed from an official per-entity table this pass; this simplified example applies only the school-district homestead.
• Angelina County's exact penalty-and-interest schedule was not available from an official source in this pass and is not stated here.
• New-construction homes are often taxed on land only in the first year, then jump once the structure is on the roll.
• This is an estimate, not a parcel-exact bill. The typical effective rate is a Census ACS estimate, not a guaranteed rate.