Hood County Property Tax & Sales Tax

Hood County Tax Rates - At a Glance

Hood County Current Tax Rates Summary

Tax Type	Rate	Notes
Property Tax (combined)	~1.63% of value	No single county rate - the sum of school district, city, and county on a City of Granbury / Granbury ISD parcel. Representative nominal stack; typical effective rate runs about 1.15% of market value.
County's own rate	$0.279700 / $100	Hood County government portion only (General fund $0.240660 + Lateral road $0.032410 + Library $0.006630)
Annual Vehicle (Car) Tax	None	Texas levies no annual value-based vehicle property tax
Sales Tax	8.25%	6.25% state + 0.5% Hood County + 1.5% City of Granbury; groceries and most unprepared food exempt
Homestead Exemption	$140,000 school + 10% cap	Statutory school-district homestead; Hood County adds a 20% local-option homestead, Granbury $20,000; over-65 owners get an additional $60,000 school exemption.
Due Date	January 31	Delinquent February 1; statewide protest deadline May 15

Hood County Property Tax

Hood County property tax comes in two numbers that are easy to confuse. The county's own adopted rate is $0.279700 per $100 of value for the 2025 tax year - and it is only the Hood County government's portion. Your actual bill is the sum of every overlapping taxing unit that covers your parcel: your school district, your city, and the county. Combined, the typical total effective rate in Hood County is about 1.15% of market value - an estimate from Census ACS 2023 5-year data (median real estate taxes paid $3,240 divided by median home value $281,300). Because the mix of taxing units differs from parcel to parcel, there is no single "Hood County rate" for a full bill; the figures below are worked examples.

Hood County levies its own rate in three parts - a general fund rate of $0.240660, a lateral-road rate of $0.032410, and a small countywide library rate of $0.006630, totaling $0.279700. What makes a Hood County bill relatively light is what it lacks: there is no countywide hospital district and no community college district, so a typical parcel stacks only three units. Hood County is a fast-growing exurb on the southwest edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, built around Lake Granbury, which draws a large retirement and recreation market. In the newer subdivisions in the northeast corner near Cresson, parcels can add a municipal utility district (MUD) that levies its own rate - Cresson MUD and Cresson Crossroad MUD 2 each adopted $1.000000 per $100 for 2025 - on top of school, city, and county. A City of Granbury parcel commonly stacks three taxing units: school, city, and county.

How a typical Hood County (City of Granbury) bill is built (taxing-unit stack)

School district City County

City of Granbury / Granbury ISD parcel - adopted rates per $100 (2025 tax year)

Taxing unit	Rate /$100	Type
Granbury ISD	$0.929600	School
City of Granbury	$0.420000	City
Hood County	$0.279700	County
Nominal total	~$1.629300	~1.63%

Rates from the Hood Central Appraisal District 2025 tax-rate schedule. This example is for a City of Granbury / Granbury ISD parcel; your total depends on your city, school district, and any special district. Other school districts in the county include Godley ISD ($1.285000, the highest), Lipan ISD ($1.046900), Tolar ISD ($0.918800), Bluff Dale ISD ($0.840000), and Glen Rose ISD ($0.789600, the lowest); other cities include Tolar ($0.500000) and Lipan ($0.226598). New subdivisions near Cresson may add Cresson MUD or Cresson Crossroad MUD 2 ($1.000000 each).

Where your property-tax dollar goes

Granbury ISD ~57.1% City ~25.8% County ~17.1%

On a typical City of Granbury / Granbury ISD parcel, Granbury ISD is about 57.1% of the nominal bill ($0.929600 / $1.6293 nominal total), the City of Granbury about 25.8%, and Hood County about 17.1%. Percentages are rounded and use the nominal posted rates before any exemption - after the $140,000 school-district homestead exemption (plus Hood County's 20% local-option homestead and the City of Granbury's $20,000 exemption), the taxable amount drops sharply, which is part of why the county's typical effective rate (about 1.15%) sits below the nominal stacked rate (about 1.63%).

Who appraises, bills, and collects in Hood County

• The Hood Central Appraisal District sets appraised values, processes homestead exemptions, and runs protests, at hoodcad.net (817-573-2471).
• The Hood County Tax Assessor-Collector collects the property tax and also handles vehicle registration and titling, at hoodcounty.texas.gov (1902 W. Pearl Street, Granbury).

For value questions, start with the appraisal district; to pay, start with the Hood County Tax Assessor-Collector.

Homestead exemption, the 10% cap, and key dates

If you own and occupy your home as your principal residence on January 1, you can claim a residence homestead exemption, and you generally apply through the Hood Central Appraisal District. For a Granbury ISD parcel, the statewide school-district exemption removes $140,000 from the value the school district taxes for the 2025 tax year. If the owner is 65 or older, an additional $60,000 ISD exemption applies.

Hood County also grants a 20% local-option homestead exemption on its own rate, and the City of Granbury exempts $20,000. The calculator below models only the statutory $140,000 school-district homestead and treats its output as the conservative (high) end - a real Granbury homestead bill, after the county and city exemptions, is lower. Confirm the exact exemptions on your account with the Hood Central Appraisal District.

Separately, the 10% homestead appraisal cap limits how much your homestead's appraised (taxed) value can rise to 10% per year, not counting new improvements. The cap applies to the appraised value used for your bill, not the market value the appraisal district sets, and it starts the year after you first qualify for the homestead exemption.

Key dates: payment is due January 31 and unpaid amounts become delinquent February 1. The statewide protest deadline is May 15 or 30 days after your appraisal notice is delivered, whichever is later. Texas Tax Code Section 1.06 rolls any deadline that falls on a weekend or holiday to the next business day. We were not able to extract a Hood County-specific penalty-and-interest schedule from an official source in this pass, so no penalty percentages are stated on this page.

How to protest your appraisal

Protests go to the Hood Central Appraisal District, which publishes its protest procedures and deadlines and runs the property search and appeals process. File and track everything at hoodcad.net. Some private firms offer to handle protests for a percentage of any tax savings; such firms exist and charge a contingency fee, but we do not cite any savings figure or success rate as fact - results vary by parcel and year.

Estimate your Hood County property tax

Sources: Hood CAD 2025 Tax Rates and Exemptions (county rate and the Granbury-area unit rates), the Hood Central Appraisal District (appraised values and exemptions), the Texas Comptroller (sales tax), and Census ACS 2023 5-year estimates (typical effective rate). See the tax guides for how Texas homestead, protest, and appraisal-cap rules work.

Vehicle Taxes in Texas

Unlike many states, Texas does not levy an annual value-based property tax on cars or other vehicles. There is no yearly "car tax" bill in Hood County. Instead, vehicle taxes in Texas work two ways:

• One-time motor-vehicle sales/use tax of 6.25% at purchase. For a private-party sale, the tax is charged on the greater of the actual sales price or 80% of the vehicle's Standard Presumptive Value (SPV). A vehicle received as a gift is taxed at a flat $10 instead.
• A flat annual registration fee (plus any local add-ons), which is a fixed fee, not a tax on the vehicle's value. In Hood County you register and title through the Hood County Tax Assessor-Collector.

So if you searched for a Texas car or vehicle sales tax, the answer is the one-time 6.25% charged when the vehicle is titled - there is no recurring vehicle property tax to budget for each year.

Hood County Sales Tax

The combined sales tax rate in the City of Granbury is 8.25% - the Texas maximum. It is made up of the 6.25% state rate, a 0.5% Hood County rate, and a 1.5% City of Granbury rate. Hood County is one of the Texas counties that does levy its own county sales tax, so the countywide rate outside a city is 6.75%. Texas law caps the total local portion at 2.0% as a shared ceiling, so once the county's 0.5% and the city's 1.5% together reach 2%, no further local rate can stack on top - which is why 8.25% is the maximum combined sales tax here.

City of Granbury (Hood County) sales tax components

Component	Rate
Texas state rate	6.25%
Hood County	0.50%
City of Granbury	1.50%
Combined rate	8.25%

The 2.00% local share (0.5% county + 1.5% city) is the maximum Texas allows. Outside city limits the combined rate is 6.75% (state plus the county's 0.5%). Groceries and most unprepared food are exempt from sales tax.

Real Example: a $281,300 Granbury Home

Here is how the numbers flow on a representative $281,300 City of Granbury / Granbury ISD home (the county median value) with a homestead exemption (owner under 65), applying only the school-district homestead to the school unit:

• Market value: $281,300.
• Homestead exemption: the $140,000 school-district exemption drops the Granbury ISD taxable value to $141,300. The other two units tax the full $281,300 in this simplified example.
• Stacked total: school $141,300 × 0.929600% = ~$1,314; city $281,300 × 0.420000% = ~$1,181; county $281,300 × 0.279700% = ~$787.
• Estimated annual bill: about $3,282 per year.
• Monthly equivalent: about $274 per month.
• Effective rate: about 1.17% of market value in this simplified example.

How this compares to the county-wide median. The Census ACS county-wide median bill is about $3,240 (roughly 1.15% effective). This homesteaded example lands right around that. A non-homestead $281,300 parcel would pay closer to the full nominal ~1.63%, or about $4,583, while a real Granbury homestead - after Hood County's 20% local-option homestead and the City's $20,000 exemption - would be lower than this example.

Limitations:

• Your total varies by school district, city, and any special district covering your parcel; a Tolar, Lipan, Godley, Bluff Dale, Glen Rose, or rural parcel uses a different stack, and a newer Cresson-area subdivision may add a MUD.
• Hood County's 20% local-option homestead exemption and the City of Granbury's $20,000 exemption (plus over-65, disability, and disabled-veteran exemptions) are not modeled in the simplified example above; this example applies only the school-district homestead, so a real homesteaded bill is lower.
• Hood County's exact penalty-and-interest schedule was not available from an official source in this pass and is not stated here.
• New-construction homes are often taxed on land only in the first year, then jump once the structure is on the roll.
• This is an estimate, not a parcel-exact bill. The typical effective rate is a Census ACS estimate, not a guaranteed rate.