Type a street name and see what HCAD's own records show. Free, no account, and you never have to give us an address.
Thirteen Harris County areas, plus the countywide total. Same roll, same method — the only difference is how homes are grouped.
Download the spreadsheet (Excel) PDF CSV
Building something with it? The same figures are available as machine-readable data (JSON).
Harris Central Appraisal District publishes its entire appraisal roll as a public download — every parcel in the county, with its appraised value and which exemptions sit on it. It is a very large pile of files, and almost nobody outside the industry ever opens it.
This tool reads that roll and answers one question: on a given street, how many single-family homes have no homestead exemption on record?
A missing homestead exemption is not the same as someone overpaying. Rentals, second homes, estate-held property and homes that changed hands recently all legitimately have none — the exemption does not transfer when a house is sold.
What the number is genuinely useful for: if one of those homes is where you actually live, that is money you do not have to pay. Filing is free, and Texas lets you file up to two years back.
No owner names. No street addresses. No account numbers. Totals only.
That is not a setting, it is how the tool is built — the figures it reports cannot identify a household. It asks for a street rather than an address for the same reason.
Every figure here is reproducible from public data. Nothing needs a records request. The method is four lines: take HCAD's bulk roll, keep state class A1, drop parcels whose site address begins 0 , and join the exemption file.
Each lookup has a download button that gives you the same figures as a spreadsheet. If you want the countywide and neighbourhood breakdown, or want to walk through the method, get in touch — happy to share it.
Nobody should be typing their home address into a public tool, and we do not want to be the reason anyone did. A street is enough to answer the question and keeps every result anonymous. If you want figures for one specific home, the free checker on our home page does that privately.
HCAD's public appraisal roll, from the bulk download at hcad.org. No records request needed — anyone can pull the same files.
It is a snapshot of the roll, not a live feed. HCAD publishes updates through the year and we reload it when they do. For the official current status of one account, check owners.hcad.org.
No. We are not a law firm and not tax agents, and we do not represent anyone before HCAD or the Appraisal Review Board. Filing an exemption is free — HCAD's Form 11.13, or the identical Comptroller Form 50-114. You file it under your own account.