Nacogdoches County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Nacogdoches County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Nacogdoches County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~2.17% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, and county hospital district on a City of Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 0.93% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.4300 / $100	Nacogdoches County government portion only: M&O $0.4238 + debt (I&S) $0.0062
Hospital / college district	Hospital yes*, college no	*Nacogdoches County Hospital District $0.036320 (first levy since 1992, countywide); no community-college taxing district in the county
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 1.00% city + 1.00% special district (Nacogdoches); no county sales tax; 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

Nacogdoches County Property Tax

Nacogdoches County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.4300 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Nacogdoches 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 - new for 2025 - the county hospital district. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Nacogdoches County is about 0.93% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2023 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $1,464 divided by median home value $158,200). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Nacogdoches County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Nacogdoches County's own rate of $0.4300 is essentially all maintenance-and-operations ($0.4238), plus a small debt (I&S) rate ($0.0062). The distinctive change for the 2025 tax year is the Nacogdoches County Hospital District (Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital), which reinstated a countywide property tax of $0.036320 - its first property-tax levy since 1992 - so every 2025 parcel now carries a small hospital-district line. There is no countywide junior- or community-college taxing district in the county (Stephen F. Austin State University is a state university and levies no local property tax). Nacogdoches is the county seat and largest city, the home of SFA and, by its own long-standing claim, the oldest town in Texas.

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

School district City County Hospital district

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Nacogdoches ISD	$1.130000	School
City of Nacogdoches	$0.575960	City
Nacogdoches County	$0.430000	County
Nacogdoches County Hospital District	$0.036320	Hospital
Nominal total	~$2.172280	~2.17%

Rates from the Nacogdoches County 2025 adopted tax rates. This example is for a City of Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches ISD parcel; your total depends on your city and school district. Other school districts include Central Heights ISD, Douglass ISD, Woden ISD, Garrison ISD, Cushing ISD, Chireno ISD, and Martinsville ISD. Unincorporated Nacogdoches ISD parcels pay no city rate (about $1.596320 combined). The county hospital district ($0.036320) applies countywide.

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Nacogdoches ISD ~52.0% City ~26.5% County ~19.8% Hospital district ~1.7%

On a typical City of Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches ISD parcel, Nacogdoches ISD is about 52.0% of the nominal bill ($1.1300 / $2.1723 nominal total), the City of Nacogdoches about 26.5%, Nacogdoches County about 19.8%, and the county hospital district about 1.7%. 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 0.93%) sits well below the nominal stacked rate (about 2.17%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Nacogdoches County

• The Nacogdoches Central Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at nacocad.org (936-560-3447).
• The Nacogdoches County Tax Assessor-Collector collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, reached through the county at nacogdochesco.gov.

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches Central Appraisal District. For a Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches Central 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 Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches Central Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at nacocad.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 Nacogdoches County property tax

Sources: Nacogdoches County Tax Code 26.18 posting (county rate), the county's 2025 adopted rates and the Nacogdoches Central Appraisal District (appraised values and exemptions), the Texas Comptroller (sales tax), and Census ACS 2023 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 Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches County you register and title through the Nacogdoches 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.

Nacogdoches County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Nacogdoches is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate, a 1.00% city rate, and a 1.00% special (economic development / street maintenance) district rate. Nacogdoches County does not levy its own county sales tax, so outside a city the rate is just the 6.25% state rate. Texas law caps the total local portion at 2.0%, so once the city's 1.00% and the special district's 1.00% are combined, no further local rate can stack on top - which is why 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here.

City of Nacogdoches (Nacogdoches County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
City of Nacogdoches (local)	1.00%
Special district (local)	1.00%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows and here is split between the 1.00% city rate and a 1.00% special-district rate; Nacogdoches County levies no county sales tax, so outside city limits the rate is 6.25%. The exact split of the special-district portion (economic development vs street maintenance) varies. Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $158,200 Nacogdoches Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $158,200 City of Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches 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: $158,200.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Nacogdoches ISD taxable value to $18,200. The other units tax the full $158,200 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $18,200 × 1.130000% = ~$206; city $158,200 × 0.575960% = ~$911; county $158,200 × 0.430000% = ~$680; hospital district $158,200 × 0.036320% = ~$57.
• Estimated annual bill: about $1,854 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $155 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.17% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $1,464 (roughly 0.93% effective). The city example above lands higher because it uses the full city stack on a median-value home; a homesteaded parcel with no city rate (school + county + hospital, roughly $943 on the same $158,200 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 $158,200 Nacogdoches parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~2.17%, or about $3,437.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district and city; a Central Heights, Douglass, Woden, Garrison, Cushing, Chireno, Martinsville, or unincorporated 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.
• Nacogdoches County's exact delinquent 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.