Medina County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Medina County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Medina County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~1.95% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, and hospital district on a City of Hondo / Hondo ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.32% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.449677 / $100	Medina County government portion only (General fund & debt $0.360400 + Road & Farm-to-Market $0.083000 + $0.006277 component)
Hospital district	$0.096100 / $100	Medina County Hospital District; levies countywide
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 0.5% Medina County + 1.5% local (City of Hondo and any local special district); groceries and most unprepared food exempt
Homestead Exemption	$140,000 school + 10% cap	Statutory school-district homestead; several county units add local-option homestead exemptions; over-65 owners get an additional $60,000 school exemption.
Due Date	January 31	Delinquent February 1; statewide protest deadline May 15

Medina County Property Tax

Medina County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.449677 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Medina 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 countywide hospital district. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Medina County is about 1.32% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $3,165 divided by median home value $239,600). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Medina County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Medina County levies its own rate in three parts - a general fund and debt rate of $0.360400 (maintenance and operations $0.314100 plus debt service $0.046300), a road-and-farm-to-market rate of $0.083000, and a small additional county component of $0.006277, totaling $0.449677. What makes a Medina County bill distinctive is a countywide Medina County Hospital District, which levies $0.096100 on parcels across the county, and the county's location on the fast-growing western edge of Greater San Antonio. There is no countywide community college district. In the newer subdivisions along the Potranco Road corridor toward San Antonio, parcels can add public improvement districts (PIDs) and water control or fresh-water-supply districts that levy their own rates - several run from about $0.18 to $1.00 per $100 - and part of eastern Medina County is in San Antonio's Northside ISD ($1.004900) rather than a Medina County school district. A City of Hondo parcel commonly stacks four taxing units: school, city, county, and hospital district.

How a typical Medina County (City of Hondo) bill is built (taxing-unit stack)

School district City County Hospital district

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Hondo ISD	$0.926900	School
City of Hondo	$0.480000	City
Medina County	$0.449677	County
Medina County Hospital District	$0.096100	Hospital
Nominal total	~$1.952677	~1.95%

Rates from the Medina County Appraisal District 2025 tax-rate schedule. This example is for a City of Hondo / Hondo ISD parcel; your total depends on your city, school district, and any special district, but the hospital district applies across the whole county. Other school districts in the county include Lytle ISD ($1.290200, the highest), Natalia ISD ($1.154700), Medina Valley ISD ($1.152700), Northside ISD ($1.004900, San Antonio's district in the east), D'Hanis ISD ($0.920300), Devine ISD ($0.889100), and Utopia ISD ($0.666900); cities include Castroville ($0.523300), LaCoste ($0.588100), Devine ($0.590000), Natalia ($0.444900), and Lytle ($0.439372).

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Hondo ISD ~47.5% City ~24.6% County ~23.0% Hospital ~4.9%

On a typical City of Hondo / Hondo ISD parcel, Hondo ISD is about 47.5% of the nominal bill ($0.926900 / $1.9527 nominal total), the City of Hondo about 24.6%, Medina County about 23.0%, and the hospital district about 4.9%. Percentages are rounded and use the nominal posted rates before any exemption - after the $140,000 school-district homestead exemption (and the local-option homestead exemptions several units grant), the taxable amount drops sharply, which is part of why the county's typical effective rate (about 1.32%) sits below the nominal stacked rate (about 1.95%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Medina County

• The Medina County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at medinacad.org (830-741-3035).
• The Medina County Tax Office (Tax Assessor-Collector) collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, at medinatx.gov (Medina County Tax Office, 1102 15th Street, Hondo; 830-741-6100).

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Medina County 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 Medina County Appraisal District. For a Hondo 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.

Several Medina County units also grant local-option homestead and over-65 exemptions, but the exact per-unit amounts are published on the appraisal district's exemption schedule, which we did not extract in this pass. Because a percentage or fixed exemption interacts 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 Hondo homestead bill is lower. Confirm the exact exemptions on your account with the Medina 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 Medina 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 Medina County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at medinacad.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 Medina County property tax

Sources: Medina CAD 2025 tax-rate schedule (county rate and the Hondo-area unit rates), the Medina 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 Medina 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 Medina County you register and title through the Medina County Tax Office.

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.

Medina County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Hondo is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate, a 0.5% Medina County rate, and a 1.5% local rate (the City of Hondo and any local special district). Medina County is one of the Texas counties that does levy its own county sales tax, so the countywide rate outside a city is 6.75%. Texas law caps the total local portion at 2.0% as a shared ceiling, so once the county's 0.5% and the local 1.5% together reach 2%, no further local rate can stack on top - which is why 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here.

City of Hondo (Medina County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Medina County	0.50%
City of Hondo / local	1.50%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share (0.5% county + 1.5% local) is the maximum Texas allows. Outside city limits the combined rate is 6.75% (state plus the county's 0.5%). The exact split of the 1.5% local share between the City of Hondo rate and any local special district is being confirmed. Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $239,600 Hondo Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $239,600 City of Hondo / Hondo 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: $239,600.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Hondo ISD taxable value to $99,600. The other three units tax the full $239,600 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $99,600 × 0.926900% = ~$923; city $239,600 × 0.480000% = ~$1,150; county $239,600 × 0.449677% = ~$1,077; hospital $239,600 × 0.096100% = ~$230.
• Estimated annual bill: about $3,381 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $282 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.41% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $3,165 (roughly 1.32% effective). This homesteaded example lands a little above that because the ACS median blends rural and lower-value parcels. A non-homestead $239,600 parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~1.95%, or about $4,679, while a real over-65 homestead - with the extra $60,000 school exemption and any local-option amounts - would be lower than this example.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district, city, and any special district covering your parcel; a Medina Valley, Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Northside, or rural parcel uses a different stack, though the hospital district applies across the county, and a newer eastern subdivision may add a PID or water district.
• Local-option homestead exemptions (and over-65, disability, and disabled-veteran exemptions) on the county, city, and hospital units are not modeled in the simplified example above; this example applies only the school-district homestead, so a real homesteaded bill is lower.
• Medina 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.