Nueces County Appraisal District
Local Appraisal District
Property owners select O’Connor to represent them in property tax protests more often than any other firm because:
- We believe O’Connor is more aggressive in effecting property tax reduction at each level of appeal. All appeal options are utilized including informal, ARB hearing, binding arbitration, SOAH and coordinating judicial appeals.
- Relationships with appraisal district staff help us to understand what is necessary to reduce your property taxes.
- While relationships are important, so is having credible evidence. Proprietary software and databases with over 50 million sales format evidence partially based on the appraisal districts thinking on evaluating evidence.
- O’Connor has the experience and expertise necessary to assemble uneven appraisal data and sales to satisfy the guidelines set by the Nueces County ARB and Nueces CAD.
Nueces County Appraisal District’s (CAD) formal and informal hearing results are displayed below:
- In 2023, accounts in Nueces CAD saved $28 million in property taxes. Nueces County property owners protested the taxable value of 39,140 accounts.
- In Nueces County, 54% of informal protests and 44% of property tax protests submitted to the Appraisal Review Board (ARB) were successful. Property tax protests via the ARB saved Nueces CAD homeowners $1 million, whereas informal protests saved them $11 million.
- The total amount of tax savings from formal protests in Nueces County has grown from little over $7 million in 2020 to $10 million in 2023.
- In 2021, only 11% of parcels in Nueces County were protested; by 2023, that number had steadily risen to 18%.
Save With O’Connor
1,148
Average HCAD Tax Savings

Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)
Residential Property
683
Commercial Property
2,206
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:
Nueces -
Street Address:
201 N. Chaparral St., Suite 206 Corpus Christi, TX 78401-2503 -
Mailing Address:
201 N. Chaparral St., Suite 206 Corpus Christi, TX 78401-2503 -
Phone:
361-881-9978
Major Cities:
Agua Dulce, Corpus Christi, Driscoll, Ingleside, Petronila, Portland, Port Aransas, Robstown
Nueces County Texas totals 1,166 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 353,178. Adjacent counties include San Patricio County (north), Kleberg County (south), Jim Wells County (west), Aransas County. The total market value of real property and personal property in Nueces County in 2020 was $46,000,000,000. Nueces County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $1,000,000,000 based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. Nueces County property owners protested the noticed value for 10,080 houses and 12,580 commercial and BPP properties. Nueces County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 41% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in Nueces County results in savings of $343,000,000 in 2020, or $15,136 per account protested. The 2020 budget for Nueces was $8,540,000 including 87 employees.
Nueces Property Tax Values
