Wilson County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Wilson County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Wilson County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~1.79% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, county, hospital district, and two special districts on a City of Floresville / Floresville ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.22% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.405961 / $100	Wilson County government portion only (M&O $0.396182 + debt $0.009779)
Hospital / college district	Hospital yes, college no	Wilson County Memorial Hospital District $0.081788 applies countywide; no 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 + 2.00% city (Floresville); Wilson County levies 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; early-payment discounts Oct/Nov/Dec; statewide protest deadline May 15

Wilson County Property Tax

Wilson County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.405961 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Wilson 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, the countywide hospital district, and two small special districts. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Wilson County is about 1.22% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2024 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $3,928 divided by median home value $321,300). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Wilson County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Wilson County's own rate of $0.405961 is posted as two parts: a general maintenance-and-operations rate ($0.396182) and a small debt (I&S) rate ($0.009779). On top of the county, most parcels also carry the countywide Wilson County Memorial Hospital District ($0.081788) and two small districts that apply throughout the county: the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District ($0.004353) and the San Antonio River Authority ($0.018300). Wilson County has no community college taxing district. Floresville is the county seat and largest city, and the county has been growing quickly as a San Antonio-area exurb along US-181 and SH-97.

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

School district City County Hospital + special districts

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

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Floresville ISD	$0.854878	School
City of Floresville	$0.420729	City
Wilson County	$0.405961	County
Hospital + Evergreen UWCD + SA River Authority	$0.104441	Special
Nominal total	~$1.786009	~1.79%

Rates from the Wilson County Appraisal District 2025 tax rates. This example is for a City of Floresville / Floresville ISD parcel; your total depends on your city and school district. Other school districts include La Vernia ISD ($1.051900), Poth ISD ($0.954400), Stockdale ISD ($0.926500), Falls City ISD ($1.076900), and Nixon-Smiley ISD ($1.074600). Unincorporated Floresville ISD parcels pay no city rate but may add one of the five county ESDs ($0.077517 to $0.100000).

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Floresville ISD ~47.9% City ~23.6% County ~22.7% Hospital + special ~5.8%

On a typical City of Floresville / Floresville ISD parcel, Floresville ISD is about 47.9% of the nominal bill ($0.854878 / $1.7860 nominal total), the City of Floresville about 23.6%, Wilson County about 22.7%, and the hospital and two special districts about 5.8% combined. 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 1.22%) sits below the nominal stacked rate (about 1.79%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Wilson County

• The Wilson County Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at wilson-cad.org (830-393-7313).
• The Wilson County Tax Assessor-Collector collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, at co.wilson.tx.us (search and pay at esearch.tax.wilsoncountytx.gov).

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Wilson 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 Wilson County Appraisal District. For a Floresville 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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. Unusually, the Wilson County Tax Assessor-Collector offers early-payment discounts on many accounts - 3% by October 31, 2% by November 30, and 1% by December 31 - though not every taxing entity participates and the full payment must arrive on a single day to qualify. 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 Wilson 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 Wilson County Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at wilson-cad.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 Wilson County property tax

Sources: Wilson County Appraisal District 2025 tax rates (county rate and the Floresville-area unit rates), the Wilson 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 Wilson 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 Wilson County you register and title through the Wilson 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.

Wilson County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Floresville is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate and a 2.00% city rate. Wilson County itself levies no county sales tax, so outside a city the rate is just 6.25%. Texas law caps the total local portion at 2.0%, so the City of Floresville's 2.00% uses the full local allowance - which is why 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here.

City of Floresville (Wilson County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Wilson County	0.00%
City of Floresville (local)	2.00%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share is the maximum Texas allows and here is entirely the city rate. Outside city limits the rate is 6.25% (state only, since the county levies no sales tax). The exact city-versus-economic-development split of the Floresville local rate varies. Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $321,300 Floresville Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $321,300 City of Floresville / Floresville 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: $321,300.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Floresville ISD taxable value to $181,300. The other units tax the full $321,300 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $181,300 × 0.854878% = ~$1,550; city $321,300 × 0.420729% = ~$1,352; county $321,300 × 0.405961% = ~$1,304; hospital + special districts $321,300 × 0.104441% = ~$336.
• Estimated annual bill: about $4,542 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $379 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 $3,928 (roughly 1.22% effective). This Floresville city example runs a bit higher because it carries the full city rate; a homesteaded parcel with no city rate (school + county + hospital and special districts, roughly $3,190 on the same $321,300 value) would pay closer to 0.99%, 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 $321,300 Floresville parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~1.79%, or about $5,740.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district and city; a La Vernia, Poth, Stockdale, Nixon-Smiley, 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.
• Wilson 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.