Comparing Williamson County and Travis County property taxes in 2027? Learn how WCAD and TCAD differ, which county has higher tax rates, and how to protest in both.
Williamson County properties are valued by the Williamson Central Appraisal District (WCAD), headquartered in Georgetown. Travis County properties are valued by the Travis Central Appraisal District (TCAD), headquartered in Austin. These are entirely separate agencies with different staff, different comparable sales databases, and different historical assessment patterns. If your home is near the county line — in Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Leander, or Brushy Creek — it is critical to know which district has jurisdiction over your property. You can confirm by looking up your property record on wcad.org or tcad.org.
Total effective property tax rates in both counties include multiple taxing entities — the county itself, city taxes, school district taxes, and special district levies. The combined rate varies significantly by exact location.
Both WCAD and TCAD use computer-assisted mass appraisal, but their historical assessment patterns differ. TCAD, covering Austin proper and surrounding communities, has historically been aggressive with assessments in high-demand neighborhoods. WCAD, covering rapidly growing communities like Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, and Leander, faces the challenge of valuing a market that grew explosively and then corrected. The most important factor is whether your specific property is over-assessed relative to its current market value.
Whether you are in Williamson County or Travis County, the Texas Tax Code sets your protest deadline as the later of May 17, 2027 or 30 days from the date your Notice of Appraised Value was mailed.
Both counties present protest opportunities in 2027. Travis County — particularly Austin proper — has seen significant price corrections in certain market segments including condos and urban homes. Williamson County, particularly communities like Leander, Liberty Hill, and newer Georgetown subdivisions, saw the most dramatic appreciation in 2021-2022 and some of the sharpest corrections thereafter as inventory surged.
TaxAppeal USA serves all Texas counties — both Williamson and Travis — at the same flat $89 fee. Whether you are in Round Rock (WCAD) or Pflugerville (either TCAD or WCAD depending on exact location), we check whether a protest will lower your bill after your exemptions and the homestead cap, and if it will, mail you a ready-to-sign kit: Form 50-132 filled in, an equal-and-uniform comparison from the district's own roll, and a return envelope addressed to the right district. You sign it and mail it.
We check first. If an appeal will lower your bill, we mail you a ready-to-sign kit for $89 flat. You sign it and mail it, and you keep 100% of your savings.
TaxAppeal USA is a self-service document-preparation service. We prepare a ready-to-sign appeal kit and mail it to you; you sign it and mail it to the county yourself. In every state we serve, including Florida, we are not property tax consultants, agents, or representatives, we do not provide tax or legal advice, and we do not file appeals or represent customers before any appraisal district, board of assessors, board of equalization, value adjustment board, or review board. Every appeal, protest and petition is prepared for the property owner, signed by the owner, and mailed by the owner in the owner’s name. In Florida your petition is signed by you as the property owner under section 194.011(3), Florida Statutes, and the county’s Value Adjustment Board filing fee is paid by you directly to the county. TaxAppeal USA does not sign as your representative, does not appear before the Board, and does not present evidence or argument at a hearing.