Total Number of Parcels in DistrictSource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.
| Millions | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| Total Number | 0.0793 | 0.0801 | 0.0813 | 0.0831 | 0.0851 | 0.0872 | 0.0902 | 0.0937 | 0.0977 | 0.1029 | 0.1068 | |
| Parcels Appraised | 0.0793 | 0.0760 | 0.0775 | 0.0831 | 0.0851 | 0.0872 | 0.0902 | 0.0937 | 0.0977 | 0.1029 | 0.1068 | |
Texas property owners should protest annually since About half of Texas properties are assessed at 100% of market value or higher based on data from the Texas Comptroller.
Ellis Appraisal District Tax Parcels
Ellis Appraisal District (Ellis CAD) attempts to: 1) identify all real and personal property, and 2) then value each parcel. Their primary mission is to equitably spread the property taxes paid to entities in the county as accurate and equitably as possible. Texas has a total of 20,663,600 tax parcels, or an average of 82,986 per county.
Ellis Appraisal District has a lean level of staffing. In 2018, there were 2,221 appraisers at Texas appraisal districts valuing 20,663,600 tax parcels, for an average of 9,305 parcels per appraiser. Based on 220 workdays per year, that is 42 appraisals per day or five per hour.
Ellis CAD Total Number of Parcels in District
Property tax values must be revalued by the Ellis Appraisal District at least every three years. Following is a summary of the total number of parcels and the number revalued annually.
Since 2014, there have been at least 76,000 parcels appraised in Ellis County each year.
Market Value All Property in Ellis CountySource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.
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| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| $ Total market value | 14.040 | 15.195 | 16.196 | 17.591 | 19.322 | 22.092 | 24.970 | 27.814 | 37.592 | 47.711 | 49.584 | |
| Single Family | 5.675 | 6.117 | 6.830 | 7.807 | 8.988 | 10.339 | 11.877 | 13.438 | 17.707 | 23.758 | 23.433 | |
| Multi-family | 0.283 | 0.323 | 0.334 | 0.370 | 0.407 | 0.571 | 0.679 | 0.854 | 1.098 | 1.383 | 1.845 | |
| Commercial | 1.605 | 1.837 | 2.007 | 2.118 | 2.193 | 2.494 | 2.984 | 3.716 | 4.336 | 5.358 | 4.211 | |
| All Other | 6.476 | 6.918 | 7.025 | 7.296 | 7.733 | 8.688 | 9.430 | 9.806 | 14.451 | 17.213 | 20.096 | |
Texas property owners should protest annually since To support neighbors’ appeals for unequal appraisal.
Ellis County - Total Market Value for All Property
Ellis Appraisal District is required to provide a value for all real property and business personal property in Ellis County annually. This initial guesstimate is subject to appeal annually, regardless of whether the value rose, was flat or fell. Ellis County property values by category are summarized in the graph.
The value of single family residences in Ellis County was $10.3 billion in 2019, less than 0.6% of the value of all single family houses in Texas ($1.65 trillion for Texas).