Tom Green County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Tom Green County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Tom Green County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~2.34% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, and county on a City of San Angelo / San Angelo ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.29% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.47075 / $100	Tom Green County government portion only (M&O $0.42248 + debt $0.04827)
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 0.50% Tom Green County + 1.50% City of San Angelo; 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

Tom Green County Property Tax

Tom Green County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.47075 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Tom Green County government's portion. Your actual bill is the sum of every overlapping taxing unit that covers your parcel: your school district, your city, and the county. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Tom Green County is about 1.29% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $2,532 divided by median home value $197,000). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Tom Green County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Tom Green County adopted its rate in two components: maintenance and operations $0.42248 plus debt service $0.04827. It is one consolidated countywide rate - there is no separate Road and Bridge or Farm-to-Market unit - and the county adopted below its 2025 voter-approval rate of $0.48738. The county actually lowered its rate for 2025 ($0.47290 to $0.47075) and has trended down since 2021 ($0.54880 to $0.50579 to $0.47290 to $0.47290 to $0.47075).

How a typical Tom Green County (San Angelo) bill is built (taxing-unit stack)

School district City County

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
San Angelo ISD	$1.07060	School
City of San Angelo	$0.79470	City
Tom Green County	$0.47075	County
Nominal total	~$2.33605	~2.34%

Rates from the Tom Green County 2025 Truth-in-Taxation (Property Tax Code 26.16) summary. This example is for a City of San Angelo / San Angelo ISD parcel; your total depends on your city, school district, and any special district. Other stacks in the county include Grape Creek, Wall, Christoval, Veribest, Water Valley, and Miles ISDs, plus rural water-conservation districts and the county emergency-services district.

Where your property-tax dollar goes

San Angelo ISD ~45.8% City ~34.0% County ~20.2%

On a typical City of San Angelo / San Angelo ISD parcel, San Angelo ISD is about 45.8% of the nominal bill ($1.07060 / $2.33605 nominal total), the City of San Angelo about 34.0%, and Tom Green County about 20.2%. 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 1.29%) sits below the nominal stacked rate (about 2.34%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Tom Green County

• The Tom Green County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, runs protests, and collects the property tax (including the online payment portal), at tgcad.org.
• The Tom Green County Tax Assessor-Collector handles vehicle registration and titling, at tomgreencountytx.gov (113 W. Beauregard Ave., San Angelo; 325-659-6529).

For value questions, exemptions, or to pay a property tax bill, start with the appraisal district; for a vehicle title or registration, use the 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 Tom Green County Appraisal District. For a San Angelo 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, and the school district) may also grant their own local-option homestead exemptions. We were unable to confirm the exact Tom Green County, City of San Angelo, and San Angelo 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 Tom Green 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 Tom Green 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 Tom Green County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at tgcad.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 Tom Green County property tax

Sources: Tom Green County 2025 Truth-in-Taxation (Property Tax Code 26.16) summary (county rate and the San Angelo-area unit rates), the Tom Green County Appraisal District (appraised values, exemptions, and collection), 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 Tom Green 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 Tom Green County you register and title through the Tom Green 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.

Tom Green County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of San Angelo is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate plus a 2.00% local share: 0.50% for Tom Green County and 1.50% for the City of San Angelo and its local special-purpose components. Texas law caps that total local portion at 2.0% as a shared ceiling, so once the county and city rates reach 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 San Angelo (Tom Green County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Tom Green County	0.50%
City of San Angelo and local special-purpose components	1.50%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows. The exact breakdown of the City of San Angelo's 1.50% between the general city rate and its economic-development / special-purpose portions is confirmed as totalling 1.50% 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 $197,000 San Angelo Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $197,000 City of San Angelo / San Angelo 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: $197,000.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the San Angelo ISD taxable value to $57,000. The other two units tax the full $197,000 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $57,000 × 1.07060% = ~$610; city $197,000 × 0.79470% = ~$1,566; county $197,000 × 0.47075% = ~$927.
• Estimated annual bill: about $3,103 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $259 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.58% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $2,532 (roughly 1.29% effective), below this City of San Angelo example because it blends lower-rate rural school districts and lower-value parcels across the whole county. A non-homestead $197,000 San Angelo parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~2.34%, or about $4,603. 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 Grape Creek, Wall, Christoval, Water Valley, Veribest, or Miles parcel uses a different stack.
• 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.
• Tom Green 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.