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Independent Verification · Texas

Don't take the district's word for it

A Texas water district can add $2,000 to $5,000 a year on top of your county and school taxes. When a district tells you its rate, the only way to know the figure is current is to check it against something else. We hold that something else: every district's own filing with the State of Texas — rate, bonded debt and payoff year, read live from the Bond Review Board.

Try “Harris County MUD 423”, “Fort Bend”, or “Brazoria”.

The “Annual cost” column below updates to match.

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187 districts can't be verified — and we say so

A zero in the state's file means one of two very different things. River authorities, water authorities and port districts are funded by service charges rather than a property tax, so zero is correct for them — we label those “No levy”. But 187 districts carry bond debt and reported no rate at all. A district cannot service debt on a zero levy, so that is missing data, and for those districts there is nothing to check a disclosure against. Printing “$0” would tell you a district is free when it is not. We show the gap instead — because knowing a figure cannot be verified is itself worth knowing before closing.

Selling in a district? Check the notice before you sign it.

Under Texas Water Code § 49.452 the seller must give the buyer a Notice to Purchaser before the contract is signed, stating the district's tax rate and bonded debt. If it is not delivered — or the figures are stale — the buyer may terminate and recover their earnest money. We give you the same figures as filed with the state, so you can check the notice you were handed against an independent source.

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Why this counts as an independent check

A second opinion is only worth having if it comes from somewhere else. Every number here is read live from the Texas Bond Review Board's “Debt Outstanding By Issuance Local By Year” dataset on the State of Texas open data portal — issue by issue, district by district, for fiscal year 2025 (fiscal year end August 31). It is what the district itself filed with the state, which makes it independent of what the district publishes on its own website. We do not retype it and we do not cache it for more than six hours.

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District rates change annually and districts may hold voter-authorised but unissued bonds that raise rates later. Always confirm the current rate with the district or the county tax assessor-collector before relying on it in a transaction.