Texas · Montgomery County
Property taxes in Montgomery County.
What the homestead exemption is worth here, what the combined rate is, and what a protest is actually worth on a Montgomery County home.
Homestead exemption, a year
$1,406
Against this county's school tax rate. We file it free.
Combined tax rate
1.879%
Every taxing unit in the county, summed.
School tax rate
1.0044%
The part the homestead exemption comes off.
What a protest is worth on a Montgomery County home
An example, not a quote. On a home the county has at $400,000, a 7% reduction is $28,000 off the value.
| Value removed | $28,000 |
| At Montgomery County's 1.88% rate, you save | $526 |
| Our fee, 40% | $210 |
| You keep | $316 |
Illustration only. Every house is different, we pull your exact appraisal district account before we file anything, and we will tell you plainly if we do not think a protest is worth filing on your home.
What we do in Montgomery County.
We file your homestead exemption free, then represent you against the county's number every spring. If we think we can bring it down, we file the protest and handle it for you.
If we save you nothing, you owe nothing. When we do save you money, our fee is 40% of what we saved, after the county agrees.
Counties with a similar rate
- Gaines County1.88%
- Orange County1.88%
- Concho County1.88%
- Tom Green County1.87%
- McLennan County1.87%
- Galveston County1.89%
Four in five Texas homes went unprotested last year. Of the protests that were filed, seven in ten were filed by a representative.
Sources: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 2024 Appraisal District Operations Survey (Q9.1.1, Q9.3); U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-year, tables B25024 and B25003.