Where Do My Taxes Go?

Estimate the full property tax for a home in Irving, TX, then see how much of it goes to the city and how the city splits that share.

Full property tax

$5,987

Taxable value $280,000. City rate $0.5891, Irving ISD $1.0159, Dallas County $0.5331, each per $100.

Irving ISD

$2,845

47.5% of the full bill. School property tax. This does not fund city services.

Dallas County

$1,493

24.9% of the full bill. Includes Dallas County, school equalization, Parkland Hospital, and Dallas College.

Irving, TX

$1,649

27.6% of the full bill. This is the share split across city services below.

Where the city share goes

$1,649 goes to Irving, TX. These cards split that city amount.

Police, Fire & Emergency Response

$625

37.88% of the city share · 10.4% of the full bill · Police, Fire, code enforcement, and the Public Safety Wellness Unit.

Streets, Traffic & Public Works

$197

11.93% of the city share · 3.3% of the full bill · Streets, traffic, the capital improvement program, and tax-increment financing.

Parks, Recreation & Community Centers

$78

4.71% of the city share · 1.3% of the full bill · Parks and Recreation, including Let's Play Irving operations.

Libraries & Cultural Arts

$25

1.54% of the city share · 0.4% of the full bill · Libraries. Arts and culture are funded mainly by hotel occupancy tax.

Bond Debt Service & Capital Projects

$447

27.11% of the city share · 7.5% of the full bill · Interest and sinking rate of $0.1597 per $100, including pension obligation bonds.

General Government & Administration

$278

16.83% of the city share · 4.6% of the full bill · General government, citywide costs, and economic development incentives.

Year-over-Year "What Changed?"

Irving, TX FY 2025-26 compared with the FY 2024-25 budget. Choose a card to ask about that change.

The General Fund is $323.5 million, up $17.4 million (5.7%) from the FY 2024-25 budget.

Irving department figures are from General Fund By Department, p. 68, FY 2025-26 adopted versus the FY 2024-25 budget. Water, drainage, and solid waste are each fund summary's adopted total versus that fund's prior-year budget. Changes under $100,000 are left off.

Proportional Visual Treemap

Irving, TX FY 2025-26 adopted spending. A larger block is a larger share. Choose a block to ask about that fund.

Combined adopted spending $1,082,650,246 · 10 funds

General Fund

$323,505,387 · 29.9% of adopted spending. Police, fire, parks, libraries, streets, and the rest of day-to-day city operations.

Irving FY 2025-26 adopted expenditures from the Combined Summary of Revenues and Expenditures, p. 36. Water, solid waste, and drainage are the fund totals on pp. 145, 167, and 158. Transfers between funds are included, so the combined total counts some dollars more than once.

Capital Improvement Projects Map

Irving, TX FY 2025-26. Choose a pin to see the project cost, what it builds, and when it is scheduled to finish.

StreetsFacilitiesParksWaterDrainagePublic safety

Choose a pin or a project. The card shows its cost, description, and completion.

On the map

Citywide, no single site

Irving FY 2025-26 adopted budget, Capital Improvement Program project sheets, pp. 351–375. Cost is each sheet's project total. Corridor pins sit near the middle of the segment the sheet names. Fire Station 9 (3229 Premier Drive), the Mustang center (2223 Kinwest Parkway), Hackberry Pump Station (8500 Ranchview Drive), and the Belt Line tank (7600 N. Belt Line Road) are the sites the city has published for those projects.

About the Irving budget

Civic Query reads the City of Irving adopted budget for fiscal year 2025-26. Ask about public safety, parks, utilities, or capital projects and get an answer tied to a page in that budget book. The tax calculator estimates how a home value in Irving splits across the city, Dallas County, and the school district for that address.

City property tax rate in this budget: $0.5891 per $100 of taxable value. School districts covered here: Irving ISD, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, and Coppell ISD. County coverage: Dallas County. The tax tool is an estimate from published rates, not a bill from the appraisal district.

Common questions

What Irving budget does Civic Query use?

The City of Irving adopted budget for FY 2025-26. Answers are limited to that book, and each answer cites the page it came from.

What is Irving’s city property tax rate for FY 2025-26?

The city rate used in the calculator is $0.5891 per $100 of taxable value. A full bill also includes Dallas County and a school district — Irving ISD, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, or Coppell ISD, depending on the address. The calculator is an estimate, not a tax bill.

Can I check a number against the Irving budget book?

Yes. Open the cited page from an answer, or preview the adopted budget from the search box. Civic Query is an independent reading aid and is not the City of Irving.

How Civic Query works

Irving, TX Budget FY 2025-26 | Civic Query