Tarrant Appraisal District
Local Appraisal District
Property owners select O’Connor to represent them in property tax protests more often than any other firm because:
- O’Connor’s aggressive approach is well aligned with the property owners’ interest. We pay the fees and costs regardless of the level of appeal. Many competitors require the property owner to pay the binding arbitration deposit or costs related to judicial appeal such as legal fees, expert witness fees and court costs. We will not ask you to pay any of the costs or fees related to your property tax protest.
- O’Connor has built relationships with appraisal district staff during the last 30 years while conducting literally millions of property tax appeals.
- You benefit from the millions of Texas property tax appeals completed by O’Connor, using comparable sales data and unequal appraisal data uniquely processed by our proprietary software. The hearing evidence file often totals 50 to 100 pages.
- O’Connor has the experience and expertise necessary to assemble uneven appraisal data and sales to satisfy the guidelines set by the Tarrant County Appraisal Review Board (ARB) and Tarrant Appraisal District.
Tarrant Appraisal District’s formal and informal hearing results are displayed below :
- In 2023, owners in Tarrant County saved $750 million in property taxes, surpassing the $547 million they saved in 2022. In 2023, 207 thousand accounts Tarrant County protested their taxable value.
- Protests against Tarrant County property taxes were successful in 85% of informal cases and 77% of ARB cases.
- Informal protests at the Tarrant Appraisal District saved homeowners $129 million, while property tax protests at the ARB saved them $11 million.
- The percentage of Tarrant County property parcels that were subject to protests rose from 8% in 2021 to 11% in 2023.
- By 2023, the overall tax savings from formal protests had risen to $143 million, up from $91 million in 2021.
Save With O’Connor
1,148
Average HCAD Tax Savings

Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)
Residential Property
351
Commercial Property
3,882
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:
Tarrant -
Street Address:
2500 Handley-Ederville Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76118-6909 -
Mailing Address:
2500 Handley-Ederville Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76118-6909 -
Phone:
817-284-0024
Major Cities:
Arlington, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Colleyville, Crowley, Dalworthington Gardens, Eagle Mountain, Edgecliff Village, Euless, Everman, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grapevine, Grand Prairie, Haltom City, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Newark, North Richland Hills, Pantego, Pecan Acres, Pelican Bay, Rendon, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Southlake, Watauga, Westover Hills, Westworth Village, White Settlement
Tarrant County Texas totals 902 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 2,110,640. Adjacent counties include Denton, Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Wise. The total market value of real property and personal property in Tarrant County in 2020 was $245,000,000,000. Tarrant County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $5,000,000,000 million based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. Tarrant County property owners protested the noticed value for 100,840 houses and 48,250 commercial and BPP properties. Tarrant County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 43% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in Tarrant County results in savings of $1,595,000,000 in 2020, or $10,698 per account protested. The 2020 budget for the Tarrant was $24,910,000 including 211 employees.
Tarrant Property Tax Values
