A 2026 bill, worked out: city, county and college lines (DRAFT – not published)

In short

We used the same typical home as where your tax bill goes: worth $442,944.¹ With the rates adopted for 2026, the city, county, county road and college lines come to about $4,063.²³⁴ That is about $33 more than the same lines in 2025.⁴ The school line is not shown here (see below).

The worked example

Same home and exemptions as the 2025 page. Only the rates change.¹⁵

Who	Taxed value	2025 rate	2026 adopted rate	2026 tax
City of Leander	$437,944	$0.4173	$0.417282	$1,827
Williamson County	$420,797	$0.3694	$0.381218	$1,604
County roads (FM/RD)	$439,944	$0.0443	$0.040329	$177
Austin Community College	$437,944	$0.1034	$0.1036433	$454
Total without school line				$4,063

How one line works: $420,797 ÷ 100 × $0.381218 = $1,604.⁴ In 2025 these four lines were $1,827 + $1,555 + $195 + $453 = $4,030.⁴

Why no school line

• The school district’s 2026 rate depends on the Nov. 3 election, so we are holding it until after the vote.

Your own bill

• This example uses the 2025 median value, not your own.¹
• Over 65, disabled or a veteran? See exemptions you may be missing.

The other side

• Rates barely moved. The county rate went up a little, the road rate went down and the city rate stayed the same.² Your value matters as much as the rate.
• One home is not you. Use the county’s tax-rate site to see your own estimate; see notice of estimated taxes.

Questions to ask

• Where does the tax office post each unit’s adopted rate for this year?
• How can an owner get a line-by-line copy of their own bill?

Changes to this page

• Nov. 2, 2026: We re-checked every figure and the math again. All matched. We reworded a hedge about your own value.
• Nov. 2, 2026: Rewrote the questions to ask so each is open, neutral and addressed to the public body.
• Nov. 2, 2026: Added questions to ask.
• Nov. 2, 2026: We re-checked every figure. We reworded an other-side point to match its source.

What you can do next

• Dates: property tax calendar. Help paying: help paying property taxes.

Footnotes

1. Williamson Central Appraisal District, Annual Report 2025, median appraisal by school district. https://www.wcad.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annual-Report-2025.pdf ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Williamson County Truth-in-Taxation site (the state-required tax-rate database), https://williamsonpropertytaxes.org, tax year 2026 rows, checked 2026-11-01. Williamson County adopted 0.381218 (no-new-revenue 0.376230, voter-approval 0.405896, last year 0.369447); FM/RD adopted 0.040329 (no-new-revenue 0.045317, voter-approval 0.047309); City of Leander adopted 0.417282 (no-new-revenue 0.430886, voter-approval 0.467986). ↩ ↩²

3. Austin Community College, “Property Taxes” (Board approved 2026 rate $0.103643: $0.0900 M&O + $0.013643 debt; updated Sept. 15, 2026). https://offices.austincc.edu/finance-and-administration/property-taxes/ (saved copy, retrieved Nov 2026) ↩ ↩²

4. Our math, from the rates and values above. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

5. WCAD Annual Report 2025, “Exemptions Granted by Taxing Unit,” pp.31-32. ↩