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Bastrop County, Texas · your tax bill

Your tax bill, explained

A homestead in the City of Bastrop, Bastrop ISD and Bastrop County ESD #3. Enter your own assessed value to see where every dollar of your property tax goes — and how it compares with each government’s “no-raise” rate. Updated 2026-10-06.

$4,929 a year — about $411 a month

On an assessed value of $300,000, as a homestead. An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Of every $100 you pay

Bastrop ISD$35.09 · $1,729 a year

City of Bastrop$31.15 · $1,535 a year

Bastrop County$22.97 · $1,132 a year

Bastrop County ESD #3$6.09 · $300 a year

Bastrop County Road & Bridge$4.70 · $232 a year

Where it ends up — every government’s share, by what it pays for

Paying off bonds (debt)$30.29 · $1,493

Running the schools$22.07 · $1,088

County services$18.91 · $932

City services$17.94 · $884

Fire and EMS$6.09 · $300

Roads and bridges$4.70 · $232

Each unit’s rate is split into its maintenance-and-operations (M&O) part and its interest-and-sinking (I&S) part — the I&S part pays debt.

The “no-new-revenue” rate — Texas’s no-raise rate

Texas’s version of the “no-raise” rate is the no-new-revenue rate: the rate that would bring each taxing unit the same tax as last year from the same properties. Texas law makes each unit publish it; going above the higher voter-approval rate generally needs an election.

At these rates you pay $164.27 more a year than you would at every government’s no-raise rate.

Bastrop County $0.3774 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.3365 per $100	+$122.58
Bastrop ISD $1.0809 per $100 vs. no-raise $1.0644 per $100	+$26.43
Bastrop County Road & Bridge $0.0780 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.0744 per $100	+$10.57
Bastrop County ESD #3 $0.1000 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.0984 per $100	+$4.68
City of Bastrop $0.5118 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.5118 per $100	+$0.00

Texas taxing units adopt rates each August and September after public hearings; school districts and colleges set their own. Districts without a published no-raise rate here aren’t in the comparison. Meetings are on the calendar.

Each government, line by line

Bastrop ISD — $1,729 a year

$1.0809 per $100 on $160,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate — part depends on the November 3 voter-approval election · Bastrop County Truth-in-Taxation portal, 2026

Bastrop ISD — operations (M&O)$1,088

Bastrop ISD — debt (I&S)$642

City of Bastrop — $1,535 a year

$0.5118 per $100 on $300,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate per the county portal · City of Bastrop notice (Form 50-212)

City of Bastrop — operations (M&O)$884

City of Bastrop — debt (I&S)$651

Bastrop County — $1,132 a year

$0.3774 per $100 on $300,000 of taxable value · adopted Sept 14, 2026 · Bastrop County order setting the 2026 tax rate

Bastrop County — operations (M&O)$932

Bastrop County — debt (I&S)$200

Bastrop County Road & Bridge — $232 a year

$0.0780 per $100 on $297,000 of taxable value · adopted Sept 14, 2026 · Bastrop County order setting the 2026 tax rate

Bastrop County Road & Bridge — operations (M&O)$232

Bastrop County ESD #3 — $300 a year

$0.1000 per $100 on $300,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate · ESD #3 notice (Form 50-212)

Bastrop County ESD #3 — operations (M&O)$300

What this doesn’t show — the honest limits

Fees and assessments on the same bill — stormwater, trash, street lights and others — aren’t property taxes and aren’t included.
Senior, veteran, widow and disability exemptions aren’t modeled.
Homestead exemptions shown are the general ones; over-65, disabled and veteran exemptions and school tax ceilings aren’t modeled.
Bastrop ISD’s 1.0809 is above its voter-approval rate; voters decide the extra on November 3 (facts only on this site).
Spreading a government’s tax across its whole budget is a fair picture, not a receipt: most budgets also run on other money (sales tax, state aid, fees).

Related: Tax lab — change the rates · The money trail · What if we saved?. This page computes and cites; it doesn’t say what any rate should be. Spot an error? Report it.