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Brazos Central Appraisal District

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Brazos Central Appraisal District’s (CAD) formal and informal hearing results are displayed below:

  • The total tax savings for property owners in Brazos County in 2022 of $14 million is greater than the 2021 total property tax savings of $12 million. Brazos County property owners protested the taxable value of 14,560 accounts in 2022.
  • 46% of informal and 88% of Appraisal Review Board (ARB) property tax protests in Brazos County were successful. Homeowners saved $2.18 million at Brazos CAD in informal protests and $1 million in ARB property tax protests.
  • In Brazos County, the percentage of parcels protested has consistently increased between 2015 to 2021 from 5% to 8% and greatly increased in 2022 with 10%.
  • In Brazos County, for the formal protests resulting in a reduction, there was a massive decrease in 2021 for single family home protests but this type of appeal made a comeback in 2022 with 91% resulting in tax savings.

Texas property owners make the decision to use O’Connor as their property tax consultant for the following reasons:

  • Every possible means of reducing your property taxes is understood and utilized by O’Connor. We regularly use binding arbitration and O’Connor pays the deposit, which may not be returned depending on the hearing results.
  • Relationships with appraisal district staff help us to understand what is necessary to reduce your property taxes.
  • You benefit from the millions of Texas property tax appeals completed by O’Connor, using comparable sales data and unequal appraisal data uniquely processed by our proprietary software. The hearing evidence file often totals 50 to 100 pages.
  • Our experience has allowed us to compile sales and unequal appraisal data consistent with the format expected by the Brazos CAD and the Brazos County ARB.

Graphs

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Property Taxes vs CPI

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CAD Operations Stats

Brazos County Central Appraisal District CAD

About CAD

  • County: Brazos
  • Street Address: 1673 Briarcrest Dr. #A-101 Bryan, TX 77802-2749
  • Mailing Address: 1673 Briarcrest Dr. #A-101 Bryan, TX 77802-2749
  • Phone: 979-774-4100
  • Website: www.brazoscad.org

Brazos County Appraisal District

Major Cities: Bryan, College Station, Navasota, Wixon Valley

Brazos County Texas totals 591 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 233,849. Adjacent counties include Robertson, Leon, Madison, Grimes, Washington and Burleson County. The total market value of real property and personal property in Brazos County in 2020 was $27,000,000,000. Brazos County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $443,000,000 billion based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. Brazos County property owners protested the notified value for 14,310 houses and 7,870 commercial and BPP properties. Brazos County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 90% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in Brazos County results in savings of $62,000,000 million in 2020, or $4,332 per account protested. The 2020 budget for the Brazos was $4,130,000 including 33 employees.

Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)

  • Residential Property $343
  • Commercial Property $1,966


August 2023

In 2021, $11.3 million in estimated property tax savings resulted from Brazos County informal and formal hearings, with $7 million of the total coming from informal hearings and $4.3 million produced through formal hearings.

July 2023

Brazos County property owners protesting at ARB hearings in 2021 saw a tax savings of approximately $4.3 million based on $175 million in value reductions generated by the hearings.

June 2023

In 2021, property owners benefited from approximately $6.9 million in property tax savings when the informal process resolved assessed values with a reduction of $279 million.

May 2023

42% of Brazos County property owners who resolved their protest at the informal level achieved a reduction in value. That is, of the 9,748 informal settlements, 4,138 resulted in a lower value in 2021.

April 2023

Property owners in Brazos County filed protest on $8 billion worth of the noticed value for 2021. This was 29% of the total market value noticed.

March 2023

Single-family residential property makes up 44% of the total market value in the Brazos Central Appraisal District, or $12 billion of $28 billion, which is the total market value certified for all property categories in Brazos Central Appraisal District in 2021, according to the Texas Comptroller.

February 2023

The Brazos Central Appraisal District valued 143,711 tax parcels, with a budget of $3.7 million, which is $26 per tax parcel.

January 2023

Brazos Central Appraisal District estimates the value of land, houses, multifamily, personal property, utilities and industrial property. Property taxes are based on multiplying the tax assessments, less any exemptions, times the tax rate set by local tax entities. There is no state property tax. The total property tax assessments before tax exemptions for 2021 by Brazos CAD was $28 billion. Brazos County annual property taxes are $703 million based on a 2.5% tax rate.

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