Harris and Fort Bend County MUD tax rates

What is in this dataset?

This table lists the 2025 property tax rates of 527 municipal utility districts (MUDs) with taxable property in Harris or Fort Bend County. Each row gives the district, the counties where it has taxable value, the tax year, the debt service rate, the maintenance and operations (M&O) rate, the total rate and the source. Rates are in dollars per $100 of taxable value.

371 districts have property in Harris County and 174 have property in Fort Bend County. 18 are in both. A MUD tax is billed on top of county, city, school district and other taxes. The rate shown here is the MUD’s share only.

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Where do the rates come from?

The starting list is the Texas Comptroller’s 2025 special district rates and levies file. State law requires the Comptroller to publish the total tax rate of each taxing unit as reported by appraisal districts. Every MUD in that file with taxable value in Harris or Fort Bend County was considered.

The Comptroller marks a district with an asterisk when the appraisal district did not report its rates. Most Fort Bend County districts carry that mark in the 2025 file. For those, and for every other district listed by the Fort Bend County Tax Assessor-Collector, the rates come from the county’s tax rate information site, which posts each unit’s adopted rate.

How was the data compiled?

• 354 rows come from the Comptroller file and 173 rows come from Fort Bend County’s tax rate pages, read on November 3, 2026.
• Where both sources list a district, the Fort Bend County figures are used. The two sources often report the debt service and M&O split in reverse order, while the totals agree.
• District names follow the Comptroller’s spelling, with the “#” sign removed.
• Defined areas, which tax only part of a district, are left out. 14 were removed.
• The 15 district rates in the first release of this table were checked against these sources. All 15 totals matched.

What do the rates show?

Total 2025 rates run from $0.03 per $100 (Harris County MUD 63) to $1.50 per $100. 36 districts levy $1.50. The median is $0.58. On a home with $300,000 of taxable value, the median rate equals $1,740 a year in MUD tax.

What are the limits?

• 25 districts in the Comptroller file have no 2025 rate in either source and are not in the table.
• For 4 districts the two sources give different totals. They are left out of the table:

• Brazoria-Fort Bend MUD 3: $1.30 in the Comptroller file, $1.35 on the Fort Bend County tax rate page.
• Katy West MUD: $0.40 in the Comptroller file, $0.80 on the Fort Bend County tax rate page.
• Fort Bend MUD 220: $1.17 in the Comptroller file, $1.39 on the Fort Bend County tax rate page.
• Fort Bend MUD 222: $0.88 in the Comptroller file, $1.17 on the Fort Bend County tax rate page.

• Fort Bend County lists a separate contract tax rate for some districts. In 41 rows the total includes that contract rate, so the debt service and M&O columns do not add up to the total.
• The Comptroller says its file is subject to change and may differ from local data. Rates were not checked against each district’s own records.
• Some districts also levy a road or defined-area tax. Those are not included.

For county context, see Harris County and Fort Bend County. Property values used for these taxes are set by the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District and the Harris Central Appraisal District.