Taxes in Pflugerville
Texas has no state personal income tax, and Pflugerville's combined sales tax rate sits at the statutory maximum of 8.25%. Property tax is where Pflugerville's real tax exposure lands -- and it is genuinely layered and address-dependent, consistent with the base record's caution that no single blended rate applies citywide: a Pflugerville ISD school tax, a city tax, a Travis or Williamson County tax, and, in many newer neighborhoods, a Municipal Utility District tax all stack on the same bill.
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Learn morePflugerville's Combined Sales Tax Rate
The combined sales tax rate in Pflugerville is 8.25% as of 2026, per multiple sales-tax rate aggregators (Avalara, SalesTaxHandbook) reviewed August 2026: 6.25% Texas state sales tax, 1.5% City of Pflugerville tax, and 0.5% for a local special district. This is the maximum combined state-and-local sales tax rate allowed anywhere in Texas -- the same statutory ceiling Austin itself sits at, just split slightly differently between city and special-district shares.
Property Tax: Multiple Layers on the Same Bill
Pflugerville ISD's board adopted a $1.1069-per-$100-valuation tax rate for 2026-27, unchanged from 2025-26, per Community Impact coverage -- on the district's median home value of $373,188, that alone works out to roughly $4,130 a year, or about $344 a month, before exemptions. The City of Pflugerville's own FY26 tax rate was set at $0.5350 per $100 valuation, per the city's official budget notice. Ownwell, a property-tax data provider, cites a median overall Pflugerville property tax bill of $6,445/year on a $354,900 home -- an effective rate of about 1.82%, which it puts 23% above the broader Travis County average of 1.48%. Treat this 1.82% figure as a useful directional estimate for a Pflugerville-ISD household, not a precise citywide constant -- the base Pflugerville record deliberately left a single blended rate unconfirmed because the exact combination of county, school district, and MUD varies parcel to parcel, and that caution still applies here.
MUD Tax: A Separate, Real Add-On in Many Neighborhoods
As covered on the moving and buying-a-home topic pages, many Pflugerville subdivisions carry an additional Municipal Utility District (MUD) tax on top of the city/county/school total above -- commonly $0.25 to $1.50 per $100 of assessed value in the broader Austin area, with newer districts often running higher. This tax repays bonds the district issued to build local water, sewer, and drainage infrastructure, and it generally is not reduced by the standard homestead exemption. Confirm whether a specific address sits inside a MUD, and at what rate, before comparing its total tax cost against a non-MUD property.
No Real Estate Transfer Tax
Texas is one of the states that levies no real estate transfer tax on property sales -- a real, if modest, closing-cost advantage relative to most other states. See the buying-a-home topic page for the fuller closing-cost picture.
Key takeaways
- Combined sales tax is 8.25% (6.25% state + 1.5% city + 0.5% special district) -- the maximum allowed under Texas law, matching Austin's own ceiling with a different city/district split.
- Pflugerville ISD's 2026-27 tax rate is $1.1069 per $100 valuation (unchanged from 2025-26) -- roughly $4,130/year on the district's $373,188 median home value; the City of Pflugerville's own FY26 rate is $0.5350 per $100.
- Ownwell cites a median overall effective property tax rate around 1.82% (about $6,445/year on a $354,900 home) -- 23% above the broader Travis County average of 1.48%, per that source. Treat this as a directional estimate, not a precise citywide constant, consistent with the base record's caution that the exact rate depends on county, school district, and MUD.
- Many Pflugerville neighborhoods carry an additional Municipal Utility District (MUD) tax, commonly $0.25-$1.50 per $100 of assessed value, generally not reduced by the homestead exemption -- confirm MUD status and rate for any specific address. Texas levies no real estate transfer tax on property sales.
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