McLennan Central Appraisal District
Local Appraisal District
O’Connor is selected as the property tax consultant more often than any other company in Texas because:
- Every possible means of reducing your property taxes is understood and utilized by O’Connor. We regularly use binding arbitration and O’Connor pays the deposit, which may not be returned depending on the hearing results.
- O’Connor has built relationships with appraisal district staff during the last 30 years while conducting literally millions of property tax appeals.
- Relationships and hearing evidence files chock full of the information sought by the appraisal district are a winning combination.
- O’Connor has professional and experienced staff to aggregate the sales and uneven appraisal data necessary to fulfill the criteria of the McLennan County ARB and McLennan CAD.
McLennan Central Appraisal District’s (CAD) formal and informal hearing results are displayed below:
- The McLennan CAD overall tax savings of $53 million in 2022 surpasses the $47 million total property tax reduction in 2021. Property owners in McLennan County protested to 19,700 accounts’ taxable value in 2022.
- 95% of the property tax protests filed with the Appraisal Review Board (ARB) and 77% of the informal property tax protests in McLennan County were successful. Homeowners saved $2 million at McLennan CAD in informal protests and $8.61 million in ARB property tax protests.
- For McLennan County, the percentage of parcels protested hit a low in 2020 with 8% but greatly increased and almost doubled in 2022 with 15%.
- In McLennan County, total protests for single family homes have massively increased since 2020 reaching 14 thousand in 2022.
Save With O’Connor
1,148
Average HCAD Tax Savings

Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)
Residential Property
343
Commercial Property
1,966
Disclaimer: O’Connor is a property tax consultant and is not affiliated with any appraisal district. Data for graphs provided by Texas comptroller.
Single Family
Commercial / Other
Total
Disclaimer: O’Connor is a property tax consultant and is not affiliated with any appraisal district. Data for graphs provided by Texas comptroller.
Single Family
Commercial / Other
Total
2023 County Appraisal District Statistics
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County:
McLennan -
Street Address:
315 S. 26th St. Waco, TX 76710-7400 -
Mailing Address:
315 S. 26th St. Waco, TX 76710-7400 -
Phone:
254-752-9864
Major Cities:
Axtell, Bellmead, Beverly Hills, China Springs, Crawford, Elm Mott, Gholson, Hallsburg, Hewitt, Lacy-Lakeview, Leroy, Lorena, Mart, McGregor, Moody, Riesel, Robinson, Ross, Waco, West, Woodway
McLennan County Texas totals 1,060 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 263,115. Adjacent counties include Hill County (north), Limestone County (east), Falls County (southeast), Bell County (south), Coryell County (southwest), Bosque County (northwest). The total market value of real property and personal property in McLennan County in 2020 was $28,170,000,000. McLennan County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $480,600,000 million based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. McLennan County property owners protested the noticed value for 5,760 houses and 5,360 commercial and BPP properties. McLennan County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 62% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in McLennan County results in savings of $900 in 2020, or $0.080 per account protested. The 2020 budget for McLennan was $4,380,000 including 42 employees.
McLennan Property Tax Values
