New Braunfels Posts $1,150 Median-Home Tax Estimate Ahead of Budget Workshop

The same statement estimates a $1,169 bill if the city instead adopts a balanced budget funded at the no-new-revenue rate of $0.415613 per $100. The no-new-revenue rate is the rate calculated to produce approximately the same property-tax revenue from the same properties as the previous year, subject to statutory adjustments; it is not necessarily the lowest numerical rate shown in a notice.

New Braunfels spans Comal and Guadalupe counties, so the city also supplied a separate comparison for Guadalupe County. Using a 2026 median-valued homestead of $237,372, the notice estimates a $971 bill under the proposed budget and rate and a $987 bill under the no-new-revenue scenario. It lists the current-year comparison as $1,010 on a 2025 median-valued homestead of $246,910.

The examples describe median-valued homesteads, not every property. An individual owner’s city tax bill depends on that property’s taxable value, exemptions and the rate eventually adopted.

The Aug. 11 meeting notice says the estimates are valid only for the fiscal 2027 proposed budget and tax rate. The next procedural development will be council’s handling of the workshop and the proposed public-hearing schedule.