Spring-area homeowners will pay a little more on their emergency services tax bill after Harris County Emergency Services District No. 11 approved a rate increase.

The five-member board of commissioners unanimously set a property tax rate of $0.039072 per $100 of home valuation at its Oct. 27 meeting, Community Impact Newspaper reported. Commissioner Dorothy Dalton said the new rate is "effectively a 3.69% increase" from the previous year. That figure reflects the increase over the no-new-revenue rate, a state-defined tax calculation. ESD 11 Chief Financial Officer Tony Farmer said the increase adds about $2.74 to the average homeowner's annual bill, according to Community Impact's earlier reporting.

For a median-valued homestead of $317,484, the total annual ESD 11 tax bill comes to $124.05.

No one spoke at the public hearing. Commissioners declined discussion before voting. The board had preliminarily approved the rate at its Sept. 22 meeting, also without discussion.

Farmer called the approved rate "the highest rate we can levy without subjecting [ESD 11] to a rollback." Separately, the district could raise its rate as high as $0.06 per $100 of taxable value before the increase would go to an election, according to the district's annual review report.

What the district covers

ESD 11 provides emergency medical services across roughly 177 square miles, serving about 634,771 residents. The district draws revenue from two sources: property taxes and patient billing. It does not receive sales tax funding, according to the district's financial transparency page.

Growth projected to slow

The annual review, prepared by data analysis firm Evo, found the district's taxable value grew by $2.745 billion from 2024 to 2025. That growth is projected to slow. The district expects a $2.058 billion increase next year, bringing total projected taxable value to $81.33 billion and projected revenue to $30.18 million.

Construction of new residential and commercial properties may also slow, the report found. The report warned that limited physical growth paired with continued limited growth in existing property values "will limit the future growth of the taxable value of the district."

Cadence Dwyer, an Evo economist, said the district has room to maintain needed revenues but will need to keep watching "as a lot of these prices stagnate but inflation continues to increase."

The new fiscal year for ESD 11 begins Jan. 1, 2027.