Cedar Crest, Dallas County: property tax data
What the public appraisal record actually shows for this neighborhood — and how to use it if your own home's value looks too high.
Cedar Crest by the numbers
25th to 75th percentile appraised value spread
Source: Dallas County appraisal datadata as of August 1, 2026
What this means for a protest here
Run every evaluable property in Cedar Crest through the same comparison and the results don't cluster tightly: the midpoint case comes back with a 6% cut in appraised value, while the top quarter of cases clear 15% or higher. That's a wide spread for one neighborhood code, and it means how much room a given property has depends on where that specific address lands in the comparison, not just on its Cedar Crest address. Of the 683 comparable parcels the app could evaluate here, 35% came back with a case at all; the reduction range above is drawn from the 241 parcels where one did.
That spread has a mechanical cause. Appraised value per square foot among comparable Cedar Crest homes starts around $88 at the low end, while the median across those same comparables sits at $176 -- more than double. When per-square-foot pricing varies that much across homes the county treats as similar, some individual properties end up priced out of step with their own footprint relative to their neighbors. That gap between an appraised value and its comparable pricing is exactly what a protest case has to lay out, address by address.
How filing a protest actually works
Your deadline to file a written protest is whichever comes later: May 15, or the 30th day after your appraisal district delivers your notice of appraised value. There's no single date that applies to everyone — it depends on when your own notice arrives, not a date any page can print in advance.
A protest based on unequal appraisal compares your property against similar, nearby homes in this same neighborhood. LoneStarLower prepares that comparison and the supporting materials; it does not file the protest, negotiate with the appraisal district, or represent you at a hearing. You file it, using Form 50-132 or an equivalent written notice, with your county's appraisal district office — not the Texas Comptroller, which doesn't handle individual protests. You attend the hearing and present the evidence yourself.
Questions about this data
How current is the data behind these Cedar Crest numbers?
This page is built from Dallas County's certified appraisal file (dallascad_2026_certified_07232026), dated August 1, 2026. Cedar Crest is tracked under geo code 4DSD89 in that file.
Why isn't there a year-over-year comparison for Cedar Crest?
Dallas County has one certified snapshot loaded so far, dated August 1, 2026, so there's no prior-year vintage yet to compare it against. A year-over-year figure will appear on this page once a second snapshot is loaded.
What does the protest-case share on this page actually measure?
It's the share of Cedar Crest's evaluable parcels -- 683 of them, from the same certified file dated August 1, 2026 -- where running that address through the same comparison used for any single property came back with a case: 35%. The reduction figures above are drawn from the 241 of those parcels where a case existed.