$0.524017
FY 2025–26 City rate per $100, after voters rejected Prop Q
$0.579948
FY 2026–27 adopted City rate per $100. Higher than the 57.40¢ voters rejected.
Your increase
Your annual City tax increase
+$223.72
Prior: $2,096.07 · Current: $2,319.79
About $18.64 per month
This is only the City of Austin line. Your actual bill also has the school district, county, community college, health district, and any special districts, plus utilities and fees. The City’s own combined example adds another $172.08 a year in rates and fees on top of the tax.
Our position: vote YES on Prop I on November 3. Prop I doesn’t change the number above; it puts an independent efficiency audit in the city charter and requires one before Council can hold another tax-rate election. The side that makes City Hall justify the bill first is the side with less taxes. Read the case and the ballot language.
Why two taxable-value inputs?
A rate-only comparison assumes your value stayed flat. Most people’s didn’t. Enter the City taxable value from each year’s appraisal notice or tax statement, after exemptions, and the calculator does the rest. Use taxable value, not market value.
The City’s own example
The City says its typical homeowner pays $113.76 more this year in City property tax. That figure uses the City’s own example home and exemption assumptions. If your value went up more than theirs, so did your bill.
The July 16 proposal used $0.579530 and a $173.87 typical-home increase. The adopted rate came in a fraction higher; the example came down because the City changed its example home. Both are documented on the sources page.