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Loving County, Texas · your tax bill

Your tax bill, explained

A homestead in Loving County, in Wink-Loving ISD, outside the water district. Enter your own assessed value to see where every dollar of your property tax goes — and how it compares with each government’s “no-raise” rate. Updated 2026-10-06.

$2,733 a year — about $228 a month

On an assessed value of $300,000, as a homestead. An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Of every $100 you pay

Loving County$60.49 · $1,653 a year
Wink-Loving ISD$29.06 · $794 a year
Loving County Road & Bridge$10.45 · $286 a year

Where it ends up — every government’s share, by what it pays for

County services$60.49 · $1,653
Running the schools$24.47 · $669
Roads and bridges$10.45 · $286
Paying off bonds (debt)$4.58 · $125

Each unit’s rate is split into its maintenance-and-operations (M&O) part and its interest-and-sinking (I&S) part — the I&S part pays debt.

The “no-new-revenue” rate — Texas’s no-raise rate

Texas’s version of the “no-raise” rate is the no-new-revenue rate: the rate that would bring each taxing unit the same tax as last year from the same properties. Texas law makes each unit publish it; going above the higher voter-approval rate generally needs an election.

At these rates you pay $67.74 more a year than you would at every government’s no-raise rate.

Loving County
$0.5512 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.5357 per $100		 +$46.35
Loving County Road & Bridge
$0.0952 per $100 vs. no-raise $0.0881 per $100		 +$21.39

Texas taxing units adopt rates each August and September after public hearings; school districts and colleges set their own. Districts without a published no-raise rate here aren’t in the comparison. Meetings are on the calendar.

Each government, line by line

Wink-Loving ISD — $794 a year

$0.7942 per $100 on $100,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate · Loving CAD — 2026 Tax Rates and Exemptions

Wink-Loving ISD — operations (M&O)$669
Wink-Loving ISD — debt (I&S)$125
Loving County — $1,653 a year

$0.5512 per $100 on $300,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate · Loving CAD — 2026 Tax Rates and Exemptions

Loving County — operations (M&O)$1,653
Loving County Road & Bridge — $286 a year

$0.0952 per $100 on $300,000 of taxable value · 2026 rate · Loving CAD — 2026 Tax Rates and Exemptions

Loving County Road & Bridge — operations (M&O)$286

What this doesn’t show — the honest limits

Related: Tax lab — change the rates · The money trail · What if we saved?. This page computes and cites; it doesn’t say what any rate should be. Spot an error? Report it.