Pflugerville, TX · Updated Oct 2026

What a Pflugerville house pays

Property tax, water, trash and energy from public rates. Look up your address to make it yours, and see how to pay less.

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Example · a Pflugerville house

$14,541a year · $1,212 a month

Starts at $362,705 of value before exemptions. Typical use.

Property tax$6,295
2.267% of $362,705, less $140,000 school homestead exemption and less $72,541 travis county 20% homestead exemption and less $72,541 central health 20% homestead exemption
Electricity and gas$3,336
1096 kWh a month $2,112 · 42.21 therms $1,224
Water and sewer$2,244
6,000 gallons a month on City of Pflugerville: water $94, sewer $93 a month
Trash$268
96-gallon, $22 a month
Home insurance$2,397
Typical premium $2,397

A typical Pflugerville house pays about $14,500 a year: $6,290 property tax and charges, $2,240 water and sewer, $270 trash, $3,340 electricity and gas, $2,400 home insurance. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Rates checked Oct 21, 2026. Insurance: what you enter, or a typical premium until you do. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Ways to pay less

Nothing here applies to every house automatically. These are worth checking:

Seniors 65+ or disabled: extra school exemption$60,000 off school taxable value
School districts must give owners 65 or older or disabled an additional $60,000 residence homestead exemption on top of the $140,000 general one.
How: File Form 50-114 with the appraisal district in your county.
Seniors 65+ or disabled: Travis County exemption$145,269 off county taxable value
Travis County gives homesteads of owners 65 and older or disabled an additional $145,269 exemption.
How: Apply with the appraisal district in your county.
Seniors 65+ or disabled: city exemption$35,000 off city taxable value
The Williamson County Tax Office's 2026 table of tax rates and exemptions lists a $35,000 City of Pflugerville exemption for owners 65 and older and a $35,000 exemption for disabled owners.
How: Apply with the appraisal district in your county.
Disabled veteransUp to a total exemption
A veteran with a 100% service-connected disability rating, or rated individually unemployable, gets a total property tax exemption on the homestead.
How: Apply with the appraisal district in your county.
Credit for a catastrophic water leak
If a leak makes your water use at least 40,000 gallons higher than the same month last year, the city may credit the excess, based on your average use over the previous 12 months. One credit per account location every three years.
How: Fill out the city's Catastrophic Water Leak Credit Request within 90 days of the repair.
Free drop-off at the city Recycle Center
Residents can drop off appliances, scrap metal, cardboard, paper, aluminum and more at no charge; refrigerators cost $45.
How: Drop the items off at the Recycle Center, which the city runs as a place for residents to drop off recyclables.
Weekly brush and bulk pickup
Brush and bulk items are collected once a week on the same day as trash and recycling: up to six items next to the cart, each bulk item under 2 cubic yards and 40 pounds.
How: Place up to six items next to your trash cart.
Seniors or disabled residents: cart pickup at the house
If everyone in the home is disabled, or cannot safely move the carts to the curb because of age or physical limits, and the City Manager approves, Waste Connections collects the carts at the side yard or garage door and puts them back.
How: The City Manager decides which households qualify and tells Waste Connections in writing.

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What you know

Value before exemptionsHomes in the Meadowlark Preserve, Lakeside Meadows and Martin Tract public improvement districts pay PID assessments, and some homes are in a municipal utility district with its own tax; neither is included here, so check your tax bill. Homes in the Williamson County part of the city pay Williamson County taxes instead of Travis County, Central Health and ESD No. 2 taxes.

I live here and have the School homestead exemption and Travis County 20% homestead exemption and Central Health 20% homestead exemption

Home insurance, a yearFrom your policy. We start at $2,397, Texas statewide average HO-3 homeowners premium for 2022 (NAIC data via Triple-I; Texas figures from the Texas Department of Insurance).

Your use

Water, thousands of gallons a month

On your water bill. A typical house uses 5,000–8,000 gallons.

Electricity, kWh a month

On your Oncor Electric Delivery (delivery) bill. An electric car adds about 300 kWh.

Gas, therms a month (yearly average)

Money dates

Jan 31in 100 daysLast day to pay Travis County property taxes without penalties and interest; penalty and interest start at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 1.
Feb 28Owners with an over-65, disabled or disabled-veteran homestead exemption: last day to enroll in the quarterly installment plan by filing a Letter of Intent and paying the first quarter.
Apr 30General deadline to file exemption applications: before May 1.
May 15Last day to file a property tax protest with the Travis Central Appraisal District.

Who serves this house

Water: City of Pflugerville; City of Pflugerville Master Fee Schedule for fiscal year 2026-2027 (effective October 1, 2026): a monthly base charge by meter size plus a residential volume charge per 1,000 gallons in two blocks
Property tax: 2.27% of value; 2026 tax year, Travis County
Garbage: Waste Connections (City of Pflugerville contract); Trash once a week in a 96-gallon cart, recycling every other week, brush and bulk items weekly
Sewer: City of Pflugerville; $42.10 a month for a 5/8- or 3/4-inch meter plus $11.08 per 1,000 gallons, billed on your winter water use
Electricity: Oncor Electric Delivery; Oncor filed its 2025 rate request with the City of Pflugerville and builds power lines for city projects
Gas: Atmos Energy, Mid-Tex Division; Pflugerville is in the Atmos Texas Municipalities coalition; Rate R customer charge $35.64 a month
Schools: Pflugerville ISD; 2026-27 tax rate $1.1069 per $100, the same as 2025-26

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Your water

Source: Surface water from Lake Pflugerville and groundwater from the Edwards Aquifer; the city pumps water from the Colorado River into Lake Pflugerville.
Lead: In 2022 testing, the 90th percentile lead result was 1.85 ppb (action level 15 ppb), with no sites over the action level.
TTHM: The 2024 report lists a total trihalomethanes violation: the highest locational running average was 82 ppb against the 80 ppb limit (October to December 2024).
Monitoring: In June 2024 the city missed 1 of the 50 coliform samples it must collect each month.

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How these numbers are made

The City of Pflugerville bills water, wastewater and garbage together on one monthly utility statement, so we calculate yours from the city's FY 2026-2027 Master Fee Schedule, adopted with the FY 2027 budget on Sept. 8, 2026 and effective Oct. 1, 2026.
Water: $16.10 a month for a 5/8-inch meter plus $12.28 per 1,000 gallons up to 8,000 gallons and $16.77 above. The starting use, 8.53 CCF (about 6,380 gallons) a month, is the average for residential 5/8-inch meters in the city's 2026 water rate study (all billed gallons divided by 177,303 bills). Garbage: $22.37 a month for in-city curbside trash and recycling.
Wastewater: homes are billed $42.10 a month plus $11.08 per 1,000 gallons of their winter average (the three lowest months from November to February), so the bill does not change with this month's water use. We use $42.10 plus $11.08 times 4,552 gallons, the average billed volume per residential 5/8-inch bill in the city's 2026 wastewater rate study (818,999,850 gallons over 179,909 bills): $92.54 a month.
Property tax: 2026 adopted rates for the City of Pflugerville ($0.5436), Travis County ($0.386210), Pflugerville ISD ($1.1069), Central Health ($0.132863) and Travis County ESD No. 2 ($0.097040) per $100, the five taxing units the city's budget lists for a Pflugerville home (2.266613% in all). Exemptions applied: $140,000 school; 20% (at least $5,000) for Travis County and Central Health. The city has no general homestead exemption (the Williamson County tax office's 2026 table lists only over-65 and disability amounts for it), and we found none for ESD No. 2. Over-65, disabled and veteran exemptions are tips, not applied.
Starting value: the city's FY27 median taxable homestead value, $362,705. Because the city has no general homestead exemption, its taxable homestead value is the appraised value before the county, Central Health and school exemptions, so we use it as the value before exemptions. Not included: PID assessments (Meadowlark Preserve, Lakeside Meadows, Martin Tract) and MUD taxes in some neighborhoods, homes in Williamson County, and homes on Manville WSC or Windermere water. Pflugerville ISD territory is not in the Austin Community College taxing district; voters decide on joining it in the November 2026 election.
Electricity: Oncor delivers power and you choose a retail plan, so we use EIA's Texas average residential price, 16.06 cents per kWh (year to date through July 2026), with no separate fixed charge, and EIA's 2024 Texas average of 1,096 kWh a month. Gas: Atmos Mid-Tex Rate R for Atmos Texas Municipalities cities from July 1, 2026, $35.64 a month plus $0.78025 per Ccf and Rider GCR gas cost of $0.85017 per Ccf ($0.26375 + $0.58642) from Atmos's Mid-Tex average-bill comparison (actual GCR changes monthly), converted to therms (1.037 therms per Ccf); typical use 40.7 Ccf (42.2 therms) from that example. Some homes get gas from Texas Gas Service instead. Franchise fee and tax riders are not included. Insurance: the 2022 Texas average premium.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Pflugerville compares

A typical Pflugerville house against the 11 Texas cities we cover, using the same default numbers as the total above.

Per year	Pflugerville	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	2.27%	2.03%	higher than 9 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover
Water	$1,133	$553	higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$1,110	$696	higher than 8 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover
Trash	$268	$280	lower than 7 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,336	$2,791	higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover
Home insurance	$2,397	$2,397	in the middle of 10 other Texas cities we cover
Total	$14,541	$12,323	higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover

Cities bill differently (some put trash on the tax bill, some cover more services), so a higher number isn't necessarily worse. The property tax rate is compared instead of dollars because house values differ.

Questions to ask your candidates

Each one starts from a number above. Any candidate can answer them.

1. Property tax rate

The fact: Pflugerville's property tax rate is 2.27%, higher than 9 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. The rate adds up every agency on the bill, not only the city.

Ask: "Property tax in Pflugerville is 2.27%, higher than 9 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. What should that money pay for first, and would you change anything about how it is set?"

2. Water

The fact: Water here costs about $1,133 a year at typical use, higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover.

Ask: "Water here costs about $1,133 a year at typical use, higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

3. Sewer and utility-bill fees

The fact: Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here come to about $1,110 a year, higher than 8 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. Some cities bill sewer on the property tax bill instead, which is not counted here.

Ask: "Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here cost about $1,110 a year, higher than 8 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

4. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $3,336 a year, higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. Rates are set mostly by the utility and the state.

Ask: "Electricity and gas here cost about $3,336 a year for a typical house, higher than 10 of the other 10 Texas cities we cover. Which parts of that can the city influence, and what would you do about them?"

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Common questions about Pflugerville house costs

What is the property tax rate in Pflugerville?

About 2.27% of the value before exemptions a year (2026 tax year, Travis County), plus flat charges on the same bill.

How much is property tax on a $500,000 house in Pflugerville?

About $9,264 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the school homestead exemption.

How much is the water bill in Pflugerville?

About $187 a month for water and sewer at typical use (6,000 gallons a month) on City of Pflugerville.

How much does trash pickup cost in Pflugerville?

$22 a month for a house.

When is property tax due in Pflugerville?

Jan 31: Last day to pay Travis County property taxes without penalties and interest; penalty and interest start at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 1.

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Pflugerville?

Yes. Seniors 65+ or disabled: extra school exemption: School districts must give owners 65 or older or disabled an additional $60,000 residence homestead exemption on top of the $140,000 general one.

How much does a house in Pflugerville cost to run each year?

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