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Property tax rates: Willow Park, Weatherford, Aledo & west FW
Texas has no income tax; property tax is where it collects instead — and in this corridor the rate varies by nearly half a percentage point depending on which side of a city line and school district you land. On a $350K house that's real monthly money, and it's already baked into every rent you pay.
Published combined rates (per $100 of assessed value)
| Location | City | School district | County + other* | Combined | On a $350K home |
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*County, hospital district, and college district levies. Rates are the 2024–2025 published figures from title-company rate guides and county documents; taxing units adopt new rates each fall, and exemptions (homestead, over-65, disabled veteran) reduce what you actually pay. Verify current rates with the Parker or Tarrant County appraisal district before making decisions.
2026 adoption watch — what has actually changed so far
Taxing units adopt their new-year rates through late summer and fall. Confirmed so far: Aledo ISD adopted $1.1775 per $100 for 2026–27 on August 24, 2026 — a $0.0167 cut and the district's eighth consecutive reduction (source: aledoisd.org); the dollar effect on a homesteaded bill is worked through in the homestead-exemption file. The City of Weatherford has proposed $0.392246, with the council vote scheduled September 8, 2026 — proposed, not adopted, until that vote. Weatherford ISD, Fort Worth ISD, White Settlement ISD, the counties, and the remaining cities are pending as of September 6, 2026. The table above stays on the fully-published 2024–25 stacks until a majority of units adopt, so you are never mixing a new school rate with an old county rate.
Verify your own property in five minutes
Every number on this page is corridor-level; your bill is parcel-level. The authoritative path: look the address up at the Parker County Appraisal District or the Tarrant Appraisal District (the county line runs through this corridor — Willow Park, Hudson Oaks, Aledo and Weatherford are Parker; Benbrook, White Settlement and most of Fort Worth are Tarrant), read the parcel's list of taxing units and each unit's adopted rate, then subtract your exemptions. The Texas Comptroller's property-tax pages explain the exemption and protest machinery in plain language. Estimates on this page are educational, not tax advice or a bill.
Deciding between towns on the tax line? The head-to-heads put it in context: Willow Park vs Hudson Oaks (a ~0.8-point spread across one interchange) and Aledo vs Weatherford — and the neighborhoods hub maps which communities sit on which side of the lines.
Three different "tax rates" show up when you Google this — here's which one is yours
Searchers land on three numbers that look contradictory and aren't. (1) The city's own rate — e.g. the City of Weatherford publishes ~$0.40 per $100 and the City of Aledo adopted ~$0.39 for 2024–25 — is only one slice of your bill; it excludes the school district, county, and college levies that make up most of it. (2) "Effective median" percentages on tax-data aggregators divide median bills by median values, so exemptions and county-line quirks pull them below the sticker rate a new buyer will actually sign up for (the same town can show different medians on its Parker and Tarrant sides). (3) The combined adopted stack — the table above — is what a taxing-unit lookup for a specific address sums to before your exemptions. When you're comparing towns as a buyer, compare stacks; then subtract the $140K homestead exemption's district-by-district dollar value to estimate what you'd actually pay on a primary residence.
Buying? The rates are step one
The buyer's levers on top of these rates — the new $140K homestead exemption, the free annual protest, and the PID/MUD layer — are covered in the buyer's property-tax playbook.
How to actually read this table
The Aledo ISD premium is real and it's the schools. Willow Park–Aledo ISD at ~2.09% vs Weatherford at ~1.90% is roughly $56/month more on a $350K home — the direct price of the district that drives half this corridor's demand. Renters pay it too, invisibly, inside rent.
For buyers, the rate changes what a payment buys. The county's median tax bill runs about $3,309, but the Aledo area's median is far higher (~$8,300) because homes are bigger and rates higher — this is exactly why our rent-vs-buy calculator includes taxes rather than quoting a bare mortgage. Run it with the rate for the specific city-and-district combination you're considering.
The renter's angle: when your landlord's tax bill rises, renewal offers follow. Corridor rates and assessments have been climbing with values — one more reason the True Rent Table's base-rent tracking matters at renewal time.