Webb County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Webb County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Webb County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~1.84% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, and Laredo College on a City of Laredo / United ISD parcel. A Laredo ISD parcel is about 2.27%; the typical effective rate runs about 1.80% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.382500 / $100	Webb County government portion only (M&O $0.357430 + debt $0.025070)
School district	United ISD $0.721655; Laredo ISD $1.156800	Laredo is split between two districts; Webb CISD ($0.995900) covers rural areas
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 0.50% Webb County + 1.25% City of Laredo + 0.25% special (transit); 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

Webb County Property Tax

Webb County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.382500 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - a maintenance-and-operations rate of $0.357430 plus a debt rate of $0.025070 - and it is only the Webb 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, for Laredo-area parcels, the Laredo College district. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Webb County is about 1.80% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $3,421 divided by median home value $189,900). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel - and, in Laredo, because two school districts overlap the city - there is no single "Webb County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Webb County sits on the Rio Grande in South Texas and is dominated by Laredo, the county seat and one of the busiest inland trade ports in the United States. Unlike many Texas counties, a typical Laredo stack has no countywide hospital district; instead the fourth unit is the Laredo College district (the local community college, $0.229249). The distinctive feature of Webb County is that the City of Laredo is split between two very different school districts, so the same home value can produce noticeably different bills depending on which district it is in.

Laredo's two school districts

Most of the confusion about "the Laredo property tax rate" comes from the two school districts that overlap the city:

• United ISD - $0.721655 (M&O $0.618900 + I&S $0.102755). United ISD covers north and west Laredo and most of the rest of Webb County. Its rate is unusually low for a Texas school district because it contains a large industrial and cross-border commercial tax base (the World Trade Bridge corridor).
• Laredo ISD - $1.156800 (M&O $0.666900 + I&S $0.489900). Laredo ISD covers central, older, and southern Laredo. Its rate is much higher than United ISD's, so a Laredo ISD parcel pays substantially more on the same home value.
• Webb CISD - $0.995900 covers rural parts of the county outside Laredo.

Check your school district on your appraisal notice or the Webb County Appraisal District parcel search before relying on any single "Laredo rate." The stacked example below uses United ISD (the larger district), with the Laredo ISD alternative noted alongside it.

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

School district (United ISD) City of Laredo County Laredo College

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
United ISD	$0.721655	School
City of Laredo	$0.506090	City
Webb County	$0.382500	County
Laredo College	$0.229249	College
Nominal total	~$1.83949	~1.84%

All unit rates are from the Webb County Truth-in-Taxation Summary (Section 26.16) for 2025. This example is for a City of Laredo / United ISD parcel. A City of Laredo / Laredo ISD parcel replaces the school line with $1.156800, for a nominal stack of about $2.27458 (~2.27%). Parcels in the smaller cities of Rio Bravo ($0.564932) or El Cenizo ($0.578920), or in Webb CISD ($0.995900), use a different stack, and some parcels also sit inside the Webb County Drainage District ($0.031933) or a MUD.

Where your property-tax dollar goes

United ISD ~39.2% City of Laredo ~27.5% County ~20.8% Laredo College ~12.5%

On a typical City of Laredo / United ISD parcel, United ISD is about 39.2% of the nominal bill ($0.721655 / $1.8395 nominal total), the City of Laredo about 27.5%, Webb County about 20.8%, and Laredo College about 12.5%. The school-district share is smaller here than in most Texas counties precisely because United ISD's rate is so low - on a Laredo ISD parcel the school district would instead be the majority of the bill. Percentages are rounded and use the nominal posted rates before any exemption; after the $140,000 school-district homestead exemption the taxable amount drops, which is part of why the county's typical effective rate (about 1.80%) differs from the nominal stacked rate.

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Webb County

• The Webb County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at webbcad.org.
• The Webb County Tax Assessor-Collector collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, at webbcountytx.gov.

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Webb 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 Webb County Appraisal District. For a United ISD or Laredo 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 Webb 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 Webb 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 Webb 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 Webb County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at webbcad.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 Webb County property tax

Sources: the Webb County Truth-in-Taxation Summary (Section 26.16) for 2025 (county, city, school, and college rates), the Webb 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 Webb 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 Webb County you register and title through the Webb 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.

Webb County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Laredo is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate plus a 0.50% Webb County rate, a 1.25% City of Laredo rate, and a 0.25% special (transit) district rate. Webb 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 Laredo (Webb County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Webb County	0.50%
City of Laredo (local)	1.25%
Special (transit) district	0.25%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows and here is split between Webb County (0.50%), the City of Laredo (1.25%), and a special transit district (0.25%); outside city limits the rate is 6.75% (state plus county). Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $189,900 Laredo Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $189,900 City of Laredo / United 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: $189,900.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the United ISD taxable value to $49,900. The other units tax the full $189,900 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $49,900 × 0.721655% = ~$360; city $189,900 × 0.506090% = ~$961; county $189,900 × 0.382500% = ~$726; Laredo College $189,900 × 0.229249% = ~$435.
• Estimated annual bill: about $2,483 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $207 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.31% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $3,421 (roughly 1.80% effective) - higher than this United ISD homestead example, because the county-wide median blends in the many higher-rate Laredo ISD parcels and non-homesteaded parcels. The same $189,900 home in Laredo ISD with a homestead would pay about $2,700 (roughly 1.42%), and without any homestead a Laredo ISD parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~2.27%, or about $4,320. A non-homestead United ISD parcel would pay about $3,494 (~1.84%).

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district and city; a Laredo ISD, Webb CISD, Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, 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.
• Some parcels carry a Webb County Drainage District or MUD rate that is not included in the representative stack.
• Webb 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.