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Ellis County appraiser reports 3% overall valuation rise for tax year 2025, ag values fall
Summary
County appraiser Eugene Rutkos gave an update on real-estate valuations for tax year 2025, reporting roughly a 3% median increase countywide, a decline in cropland/ag-use values, and an increase in exempt property share to about 17.21% of total valuation. Parcel counts and protest deadlines were also reviewed.
Eugene Rutkos, Ellis County appraiser, presented the county’s preliminary real-estate valuation report for tax year 2025 at the April 1 commission meeting, saying the county’s median valuation change is about 3% overall while agricultural cropland values declined modestly.
Rutkos said the county records include 16,641 parcels in the valuation system; he clarified that 649 of those are personal-property manufactured homes moved into the real-estate system for valuation and that the county’s usable real-estate parcel count is about 15,992. He reported 9,702 residential…
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