45,166 single-family homes with a Humble mailing address, how many have no homestead exemption on record, and where the Humble area sits against the Harris County average.
Check your home FREE →| What HCAD's records show | Humble | All of Harris County |
|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes counted (state class A1) | 45,166 | 1,157,293 |
| No homestead exemption on record | 9,056 (20.1%) | 328,310 (28.4%) |
| Median appraised value | $282,267 | $279,813 |
| Median appraised value per square foot | $102.44 | $111.97 |
| Middle 80% of homes, per square foot | $84.15 – $126.19 | $84.36 – $184.69 |
| Median year of the primary structure | 2004 | 1990 |
Against the county: 20.1% here versus 28.4% across all of Harris County (328,310 of 1,157,293 single-family homes) — Humble runs 8.3 percentage points below the county rate.
9,056 of 45,166 Humble-addressed homes — 20.1% — have no homestead exemption on record, more than eight points below the county's 28.4%. The median appraised value is $282,267, almost exactly the county median of $279,813, but the median rate is $102.44 per square foot against the county's $111.97. Those two facts together describe the area precisely: you get noticeably more house per dollar of appraised value than the county average, on stock whose median primary structure dates to about 2004.
The tight band is the striking part. The middle 80% of Humble homes run $84.15 to $126.19 per square foot — one of the narrowest ranges in this set. Narrow cuts both ways in a protest. It makes an unequal-appraisal argument cleaner to demonstrate when you are genuinely above the band, and it means most homes here are not obvious outliers. That is worth knowing before you spend an afternoon building a case.
Humble is wholly inside Harris County — there is no county-line complication to explain here. There is a different distinction worth being clear about: the City of Humble is small, but the Humble mailing area is very large, reaching well past the city limits into Atascocita and other unincorporated communities on that side of the county. The homes counted on this page are all of the ones whose owner's mail goes to "Humble" — most of them are outside the city limits and pay no City of Humble tax at all. Your own Notice of Appraised Value is the authority on which units tax you.
This trips people up every year. The City of Humble covers a small footprint; the mailing area that carries a Humble address covers a far larger, mostly unincorporated stretch including much of Atascocita. If you are outside the city limits there is no city property tax line on your bill at all — but there is very likely a municipal utility district, and a MUD rate can be as large as a city rate would have been.
None of that changes the protest. HCAD sets one appraised value per account, and every unit that taxes you — county, school district, college, flood control, MUD, and city if you are inside one — applies its own rate to that same number. One protest, filed once, reaches all of them. The place to check exactly which units bill you is the Notice of Appraised Value itself, which lists them by name.
There are three ways to file, and all three are held to that same deadline: online through iFile at owners.hcad.org, by mail, or in person at Harris Central Appraisal District, 13013 Northwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77040-6305. Online is the only route that connects to iSettle, HCAD's electronic settlement-offer process, which resolves a large share of protests without a hearing.
The full walkthrough lives in our free guides rather than being repeated on every area page: the complete Harris County protest guide, how to file online through HCAD iFile, and what actually happens at an ARB hearing. If the deadline has already passed, §41.44(b) late protests and the other remedies are covered honestly there, including what they do not cover.
Exemptions are separate from a protest, they are free to file, and they are not filed through iFile. For most households they are also the bigger number — a protest argues about value, an exemption takes value out of the tax base outright.
| Exemption | What it does | Statute |
|---|---|---|
| General residence homestead | $140,000 off the value your school district taxes, on a home you own and live in as your main residence | Tax Code §11.13(b) |
| Age 65 or older, or disabled | Another $60,000 off school-district value on top of the $140,000. From any one taxing unit you take the age-65 or the disability exemption — not both (§11.13(h)) | Tax Code §11.13(c) |
| Filing homestead late | A late residence homestead application must be accepted and decided if it is filed within two years of the delinquency date for those taxes; tax already paid is refunded without a separate application | Tax Code §11.431 |
| Filing disabled-veteran late | Disabled veterans get a far longer window — up to five years after the delinquency date | Tax Code §11.439 |
Full detail on each: the homestead exemption guide, the over-65 exemption and school tax ceiling, and the disabled-veteran exemptions.
Yes, if HCAD has your owner mailing city recorded as Humble — that is exactly how this page counts. The Humble mailing area extends well past the city limits and takes in much of Atascocita. It is a mailing-address grouping, not a city boundary, and it is not a precise map of any neighbourhood.
Only if your home is inside the city limits, which most of the Humble mailing area is not. Your Notice of Appraised Value lists every taxing unit that bills your account by name — that document, not your mailing address, is the authority. Either way the protest is the same: HCAD sets the value, and one protest covers every unit that uses it.
Texas Tax Code §41.44 sets it at May 15, or the 30th day after HCAD delivered your Notice of Appraised Value, whichever is LATER. It is not always May 15 — if your notice arrived late, the later date is the one that governs. You can file online through iFile at owners.hcad.org, by mail, or in person at Harris Central Appraisal District, 13013 Northwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77040-6305.
Yes. Checking what HCAD has on record for your home costs nothing and takes about a minute. Filing an exemption — homestead, over-65, disability, veteran, disaster — is also free: HCAD publishes the application as Form 11.13 and the Texas Comptroller publishes the identical form as 50-114, both at no charge. Anyone charging you a fee to file a homestead exemption is charging you for a free government form.
No. We are not attorneys and not tax agents, and we do not represent anyone before HCAD or the Appraisal Review Board. We prepare the forms and the comparable-property evidence; you file it yourself under your own account. iFile requires your own login tied to your own account number and PIN, so the protest stays on your own record.
Last updated: July 31, 2026. Property figures computed from Harris Central Appraisal District's public appraisal roll (single-family state class A1, vacant-lot records excluded), joined to HCAD's exemption records. Sources: Harris Central Appraisal District, hcad.org and owners.hcad.org; Texas Tax Code §41.44, §11.13, §11.431 and §11.439. This page is general information for Harris County homeowners, not legal or tax advice. Appraisal figures reflect the roll as loaded and change every year — verify your own account with HCAD before you rely on anything here.