Maverick County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Maverick County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Maverick County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~1.80% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, and hospital district on a City of Eagle Pass / Eagle Pass ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.25% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.378313 / $100	Maverick County government portion only (down from $0.394529 in 2024)
Hospital / college district	Hospital $0.121000; no college	Countywide hospital district in the stack; no countywide community-college taxing district
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 0.50% Maverick County + 1.00% city (Eagle Pass) + 0.50% special district; 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.
Due Date	January 31	Delinquent February 1; statewide protest deadline May 15

Maverick County Property Tax

Maverick County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.378313 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year (down from $0.394529 in 2024) - and it is only the Maverick County government's portion. Your actual bill is the sum of every overlapping taxing unit that covers your parcel: your school district, your city (if any), the county, and the countywide hospital district. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Maverick County is about 1.25% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $1,976 divided by median home value $158,700). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Maverick County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Maverick County's own rate of $0.378313 has fallen for several years running as appraised values on the Rio Grande border have risen. A typical Eagle Pass stack also carries a countywide hospital district ($0.121000, the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center service area), but no community-college taxing district. Eagle Pass, across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras and home to two international bridges, is both the county seat and by far the largest city; the county also includes the smaller cities of El Cenizo-area colonias and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas reservation.

How a typical Maverick County (City of Eagle Pass) bill is built (taxing-unit stack)

School district City County Hospital district

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Eagle Pass ISD	$0.825120	School
City of Eagle Pass	$0.480052	City
Maverick County	$0.378313	County
Maverick County Hospital District	$0.121000	Hospital
Nominal total	~$1.804485	~1.80%

All four unit rates are from the Maverick County Appraisal District's published 2025 tax-rate chart. This example is for a City of Eagle Pass / Eagle Pass ISD parcel; your total depends on your city and school district. Unincorporated Eagle Pass ISD parcels pay no city rate (about $1.324433 combined - the county, hospital, and school units). Some parcels also sit inside a water, drainage, or other special district that adds its own rate.

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Eagle Pass ISD ~45.7% City ~26.6% County ~21.0% Hospital ~6.7%

On a typical City of Eagle Pass / Eagle Pass ISD parcel, Eagle Pass ISD is about 45.7% of the nominal bill ($0.825120 / $1.8045 nominal total), the City of Eagle Pass about 26.6%, Maverick County about 21.0%, and the hospital district about 6.7%. Percentages are rounded and use the nominal posted rates before any exemption - after the $140,000 school-district homestead exemption the taxable amount drops sharply, which is part of why the county's typical effective rate (about 1.25%) sits below the nominal stacked rate (about 1.80%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Maverick County

• The Maverick County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at maverickcad.org.
• The Eagle Pass / Maverick County Tax Office collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, at eaglepasstx.gov.

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the tax office.

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 Maverick County Appraisal District. For an Eagle Pass 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 Maverick County cities also grant local-option homestead exemptions, but the exact per-unit amounts vary and were not fully extracted in this pass. Because those interact with each unit's own value, the calculator below models only the statutory $140,000 school-district homestead and treats its output as the conservative (high) end - a real over-65 homestead bill is lower. Confirm the exact exemptions on your account with the Maverick 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 a Maverick County-specific delinquent 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 Maverick County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at maverickcad.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 Maverick County property tax

Sources: the Maverick County Appraisal District 2025 tax-rate chart (county, city, school, and hospital rates), the Maverick County Appraisal District (appraised values and exemptions), 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 Maverick 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 Maverick County you register and title through the Maverick 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.

Maverick County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Eagle Pass is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate plus a 0.50% Maverick County rate, a 1.00% City of Eagle Pass rate, and a 0.50% special (economic development) district rate. Maverick County does levy its own 0.50% county sales tax, so outside a city the rate is 6.75% (state plus county). Texas law caps the total local portion at 2.0%, so 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here.

City of Eagle Pass (Maverick County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Maverick County	0.50%
City of Eagle Pass	1.00%
Special (economic development) district	0.50%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows and here is split between Maverick County, the City of Eagle Pass, and a special district; outside city limits the rate is 6.75% (state plus county). Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $158,700 Eagle Pass Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $158,700 City of Eagle Pass / Eagle Pass 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: $158,700.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Eagle Pass ISD taxable value to $18,700. The other units tax the full $158,700 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $18,700 × 0.825120% = ~$154; city $158,700 × 0.480052% = ~$762; county $158,700 × 0.378313% = ~$600; hospital $158,700 × 0.121000% = ~$192.
• Estimated annual bill: about $1,708 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $142 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.08% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $1,976 (roughly 1.25% effective). This Eagle Pass homestead example lands below it because it applies the school homestead on a median-value home. A homesteaded parcel with no city rate (school + county + hospital, roughly $946 on the same $158,700 value) would pay closer to 0.60%, and a real over-65 homestead - with the extra $60,000 school exemption and the school-tax ceiling - would be lower still. A non-homestead $158,700 Eagle Pass parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~1.80%, or about $2,864.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district and city; an unincorporated or special-district parcel uses a different stack.
• Local-option city homestead exemptions (and over-65, disability, and disabled-veteran exemptions) are not modeled in the simplified example above; this example applies only the school-district homestead, so a real homesteaded city bill is lower.
• Some parcels carry a water, drainage, or other special-district rate that is not included in the representative stack.
• Maverick County's exact delinquent penalty-and-interest schedule was not available from an official source in this pass and is not stated here.
• This is an estimate, not a parcel-exact bill. The typical effective rate is a Census ACS estimate, not a guaranteed rate.