A typical home's tax, 2026 against 2025
The Ledger's arithmetic on sourced inputsThe one-page statement no taxing unit publishes, built from public numbers: what a typical home in ZIPs 76086, 76087 and 76088 pays each unit this year and last, and how much of the change is the rate and how much is the value. Every input is linked; the arithmetic is shown; the caveats are real.
- Typical home value
- $277,863 in July 2026, versus $285,363 in July 2025 (Zillow's typical value for the ZIP; a stand-in for the appraisal district's value, which the Ledger does not have)
- School homestead exemption
- $140,000 off the value for Weatherford ISD, set by state law; the city's and county's optional exemptions are not applied because the Ledger has not confirmed them
| Unit | 2025 rate | 2026 rate | 2025 tax | 2026 tax | Change | Of which rate | Of which value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Weatherford (proposed) | $0.392246 | $0.392246 | $1,119 | $1,090 | -29 (-2.6%) | +0 | -29 |
| Weatherford ISD | $1.034200 | $0.934200 | $1,503 | $1,288 | -215 (-14.3%) | -145 | -70 |
| Parker County (proposed) | $0.285070 | $0.284719 | $813 | $791 | -22 (-2.7%) | -1 | -21 |
| All three | $3,436 | $3,169 | -267 |
The arithmetic
Tax = taxable value × rate ÷ 100. For Weatherford ISD the taxable value is the home value less the $140,000 homestead exemption; for the city and county it is the full value. "Of which rate" is last year's value at this year's rate minus last year's tax; "of which value" is the rest of the change. The county's 2026 figure uses its proposed rate until the court adopts one.
What this is not
It is not your bill. Your appraised value, your exemptions, a frozen ceiling if you are over 65, and any protest result all move it; the appraisal district's notice is the number that counts. Zillow's typical value is a modeled figure for the whole ZIP, which reaches beyond the city, and it fell 2.6% year over year while appraisal values may not have. The point of the page is the direction and the split, not the dollar.
Sources: rates from each unit's adoption and the Comptroller's files on the tax-rate pages; the exemption from state law as recorded in the calculator's rate file; home values from the housing page. The Ledger publishes this page every August after the adoptions; the 2026 edition was built Sept. 6, 2026. The editorial that promised it is here.