Your house in Deer Park is worth about $262,000. You pay roughly $6,800 a year in property taxes on it.
Right now, the refineries and plants just outside the city limits pay Deer Park about $14.9 million a year — money that covers a big share of the city’s bills instead of coming out of yours.
If that deal ever ended, the city would have to make it up from homeowners: about $840–$1,050 more a year on a house like yours — a 56% jump in the city’s tax rate.
Everything on this page is how we know that — figure by figure, from Deer Park’s FY2025 audited financial report, the 2025 county appraisal roll, and the city’s own tax-rate filing. With the receipts — 48 corrections already published on the record.
The money in
Where the town's money actually comes from — its own recurring revenue, before grants or one-time money.
Where it goes
What the town spent this year, by function - the flow, decomposed the way the money-in page decomposes revenue.
What it owes
Debt to its last scheduled payment, plus the pension and retiree-health promises already earned - what the town owes, not what it spent.
The trend
Where the numbers have been heading across fifteen years — the direction, not any single year.
What the future actually holds
Whether the town's own money covers what it has already promised — without borrowing more.
What the land produces
Which development patterns pay for themselves — the net the land produces once expenses are counted.
Your whole tax bill
Eight governments tax the same parcel; the city sets only about a quarter of the bill.
The industrial district
The off-roll industrial district — value the city does not tax, and the payments it takes instead.
The record
What the council decided, and how each member voted — the record, on the record.
School District
Deer Park ISD — the largest slice of your tax bill, decoded: revenue, spending, debt, promises, reserves, direction.
Special Districts
The sales-tax bodies — police, fire/EMS, and development — funded off the property-tax bill by citizen board.
Housing
The public housing record — permits (Harris County Appraisal District permit file, as of 2026-09-27), appraised values, and the tax-sale ledger, each on an openable county record. No listings, no forecast.
Housing-Ready
Strong Towns' Housing-Ready framework, scored section by section against Deer Park's own zoning code.
Crash Studio
The SH-225 corridor crash record from TxDOT CRIS — where crashes cluster and what the road design invites, read beyond blame.
Mission Accomplished
Does the town expand what it can't maintain? Deer Park's FY26 capital plan, categorized renewal vs new capacity.
Who governs
Who Governs — the offices that run Deer Park and how they connect.
The food system
The food system at the household layer - what one adult day of food costs here: ten Tier-A staples, frozen so the basket cannot drift.
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