Eight governments tax the same parcel; the city sets only about a quarter of the bill.
Your whole tax bill
Of every property-tax dollar you pay, how much is the city?
You do not pay one property tax. You pay eight.
The city’s rate is $0.72 per $100printed p.117 / PDF p.125 of what your property is worth. That is the number people argue about at council meetings, about 28 cents of every dollar on your bill.
Seven other governments tax the same property. The school district charges $1.1213 per $100printed p.117 / PDF p.125 — more than the city and the county combined. Then the county, the flood control district, the hospital district, the education district, the port, and the college. Each was created separately, and each sets its own rate.
Together they come to $2.604857 per $100FY2025 ACFR PDF p.124 / printed p.117. On the median Deer Park single-family home — $261,679source addedderived — A1 — that is about $6,800 a year$261,679 × $2.604857 per $100 ÷ 100. The city, the government closest to you and the one you can actually show up and speak to, controls about 28 cents$0.720000 per $100 ÷ $2.604857 per $100 of every dollar of it.
Context, not the city’s math. Everything else on this page is the City’s finances. But a Deer Park parcel is taxed by eight overlapping governments at once, totaling $2.604857 per $100FY2025 ACFR PDF p.124 / printed p.117. Here is where your property-tax dollar actually goes — the city is the smaller part of it.
| share | government | ACFR FY2025, as printed | Adopted, tax year 2025 each government’s own adopted-rate notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43¢ | Deer Park ISD | $1.1213 | $1.1389 | analyzed separately — a future School District page |
| 28¢ | City of Deer Park | $0.7200 | $0.7200 | analyzed on this page |
| 15¢ | Harris County | $0.38529 | $0.38096 | separate government (context) |
| 6¢ | Harris County Hospital District | $0.16348 | $0.18761 | separate (context) |
| 6¢ | San Jacinto College | $0.154868 | $0.154615 | separate (context) |
| 2¢ | Harris County Flood Control | $0.04897 | $0.04966 | separate (context) |
| <1¢ | Port of Houston Authority | $0.00615 | $0.0059 | separate (context) |
| <1¢ | Harris Co. Dept of Education | $0.004799 | $0.004798 | separate (context) |
Two columns, two sources. “ACFR FY2025, as printed” is the rate as the City’s audited statistical section prints it for fiscal year 2025 — the basis for the cent-shares; its total, $2.604857 per $100FY2025 ACFR PDF p.124 / printed p.117, is as printed in the ACFR. “Adopted, tax year 2025” is each government’s rate as adopted for the 2025 tax year (source: each government’s own adopted-rate notice); together the eight come to $2.6424 per $100 — computed by the Council; no source prints that total. The two columns come from different documents for different years, so they can differ.adopted rates: — source in-row
The city is about 28¢ of each property-tax dollar; the school district the largest single slice, analyzed separately (a future School District page will ask not just whether it is solvent but how well the young are served for what is spent). The sales-tax districts (Crime Control, Fire Control, Community Development) are a separate 2% stack, not on this property-tax bill.per-jurisdiction rates: (FY2025 ACFR, Direct & Overlapping tax rates) · shares ÷ $2.604857 per $100
A slice of that school-district money does not stay here — it leaves for the state. Deer Park ISD’s local tax share of its basic funding runs above what the state’s formula entitles it to, and under the recapture (“Robin Hood”) system the law has it return the excess (Tex. Educ. Code §48.257). In the current year (SY2026) that is $4,572,286CDN 101908, sheet FY94-FY26, SY2026; re-derived 2026-08-10; cumulatively since 1994 it comes to ~$624,022,726source addedsum FY94-FY26 — more than six hundred million dollars raised in Deer Park and sent to the state across three decades.