Farms in Deer Park
The plain version
Deer Park is a refinery-and-rooftops town, not farm country. The county appraisal district values nine parcels inside the city as farmland: 87.31 acres, about 1.3% of the city’s land. This page shows where they are and what the record says each one is used for.
The record names one use for each parcel, in the appraisal district’s own words: pasture, hay, or tree nursery. Pasture is grazing land for livestock, hay is feed for livestock, and a tree nursery grows trees and plants, not food. The record says what a parcel is valued for. It does not measure what the land grows.
The parcels are labeled A through I. Owners are not named on this page.
By the numbers
Check our work
- HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll (tax year 2025, certified 2025-08-22), 1-d-1 agricultural valuation, City of Deer Park (054); city land area from the Census 2024 Gazetteer (GEOID 4819624); CLR calculation.
- Ag value $43,386 (HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll) × 10.00%, the Texas Comptroller’s 2025 capitalization rate for 1-d-1 land (Tax Code §23.53; comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/caprates.php); CLR calculation.
What the record assumes it produces
Farmland in Texas is appraised on what it could earn from farming, not on what it would sell for. Working that back with the state’s 2025 rate gives about $4,300 a year of farm income across all nine parcels. This is the farm income the appraisal assumes, not what the land actually grows or earns. [P]
Where the parcels are
- Inside Deer Park (A–I)
- Within 3 miles outside the city
- Deer Park city limit
Parcels A–I are the land inside Deer Park valued as farmland. Blue shapes are farm-valued land just past the city limit (dashed line). Shapes only; no owner is shown.
Check our work
- Parcel shapes: HCAD parcel map (GIS, edition of 2026-10-05), joined to the HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll. City limit and roads: Census TIGER/Line 2024.
The parcels
| Parcel | General location | Recorded use[C] | Acres under ag valuation[C] | Market land value[C] | Ag value[C] | Years under ag valuation[C] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parcel A | near E X St and S Battleground Rd | Hay | 7.04 | $1,380,373 | $915 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel B | along E X St, west of East Blvd | Improved pasture | 7.52 | $819,189 | $1,128 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel C | along E Pasadena Blvd, west of East Blvd | Native pasture | 3.50 | $685,481 | $350 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel D | along E Pasadena Blvd, west of East Blvd | Native pasture | 6.25 | $272,250 | $625 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel E | near E Pasadena Blvd and East Blvd | Native pasture | 5.11 | $1,001,664 | $511 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel F | near East Blvd, south of E Pasadena Blvd | Improved pasture | 4.50 | $735,075 | $675 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel G | along East Blvd, north of Spencer Hwy | Improved pasture | 5.43 | $851,166 | $814 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel H | along East Blvd, north of Spencer Hwy | Tree nursery | 17.21 | $2,249,004 | $13,768 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
| Parcel I | along Spencer Hwy | Tree nursery | 30.75 | $5,357,880 | $24,600 | 2021–2025 (all 5) |
- Three of the native pasture parcels (C, D, E) adjoin one another; they are counted here as separate parcels.
- Two of the improved pasture parcels (F, G) adjoin one another; they are counted here as separate parcels.
- Market land value is what the appraisal district says the land would sell for; ag value is what it is appraised at as farmland. Both are record fields, shown as recorded.
- [C] = from the certified record.
Check our work
- HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll (tax year 2025, certified 2025-08-22); CLR calculation.
- Recorded use: HCAD 2025 certified roll, agricultural land lines (land_ag), in HCAD’s category names.
- Years under ag valuation: HCAD appraisal rolls for tax years 2021–2025.
- General location: nearest named roads, Census TIGER/Line 2024.
By recorded use
| Recorded use[C] | What it grows, in plain words | Parcels | Acres[C] | Which |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tree nursery | trees and plants, not food | 2 | 47.96 | H, I |
| Improved pasture | grazing for livestock | 3 | 17.45 | B, F, G |
| Native pasture | grazing for livestock | 3 | 14.86 | C, D, E |
| Hay | feed for livestock | 1 | 7.04 | A |
| All | 9 | 87.31 | A–I |
Check our work
- HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll (tax year 2025, certified 2025-08-22); CLR calculation.
Just past the edge: the 3-mile ring
- Inside Deer Park (A–I)
- Within 3 miles outside the city
- Deer Park city limit
Every parcel valued as farmland whose center sits within 3 miles of the Deer Park city limit, outside the city (blue), with the nine inside the city (orange).
Check our work
- Parcel shapes: HCAD parcel map (GIS, edition of 2026-10-05), joined to the HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll. City limit and roads: Census TIGER/Line 2024.
Just past the edge, by recorded use
78 parcels outside the city limit, within 3 miles of it, are valued as farmland: 1,671.8 acres in all. A parcel can carry more than one use, so acres by use are the acres the record assigns to each use.
| Recorded use[C] | What it grows, in plain words | Parcels | Acres[C] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native pasture | grazing for livestock | 42 | 1,280.7 |
| Wildlife management | managed for wildlife, not food | 3 | 182.4 |
| Improved pasture | grazing for livestock | 18 | 96.4 |
| Hay | feed for livestock | 7 | 62.6 |
| Agriculture residual land | the record names no crop or herd | 1 | 24.1 |
| Nursery | plants, not food | 5 | 16.2 |
| Beekeeping | bees (honey, pollination) | 2 | 5.4 |
| No category on the roll | the record carries ag value but no use | 2 | 4.0 (total) |
Check our work
- HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll (tax year 2025, certified 2025-08-22); CLR calculation.
Just past the edge, by city
| City | Parcels | Acres[C] |
|---|---|---|
| La Porte | 42 | 735.8 |
| Houston and Pasadena (split) | 1 | 264.0 |
| Pasadena | 23 | 248.1 |
| Houston | 6 | 228.4 |
| Unincorporated Harris County | 6 | 195.5 |
| All | 78 | 1,671.8 |
- City is the city that taxes the parcel on the record. "Unincorporated" means no city taxes it.
Check our work
- HCAD 2025 certified appraisal roll (tax year 2025, certified 2025-08-22); CLR calculation.
- The 3-mile ring: parcel centers within 3 miles of the Census TIGER/Line 2024 city limit; CLR calculation.