Elmwood, 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.
Elmwood 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
Look at the 580 Elmwood parcels that actually ran through a protest case using this same comp-based method, and the reductions that came out of them cluster around a median of 8% — half landed below that, half above, with the full range stretching from a fraction of a percent up to 39% at the high end. That's not a forecast for any one house here; it's what the spread of past comparable cases in this neighborhood looked like once the numbers were run.
The reason that spread is so wide traces back to how unevenly Elmwood's homes are priced per square foot. On homes of a similar size to the neighborhood's typical unit, right around 1,256 square feet, comparable properties here have priced out anywhere from $61 to $340 per square foot — more than a fivefold difference within one neighborhood boundary. That gap is the underlying signal an unequal-appraisal argument works from: when similarly sized homes in the same area sit that far apart in per-square-foot value, the lower end of that range becomes the comparison point, not the higher end where a given property's current appraisal might sit.
Not every property has a case, and that unevenness is exactly why. Of Elmwood's 1,584 parcels, 1,502 had enough comparable data to be evaluated the same way a live address lookup evaluates one, and a case turned up in 39% of them. Whether a specific property here has one depends on where its own numbers fall against its comps — not on a blanket answer for the neighborhood either way.
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
Where do these Elmwood numbers come from?
They're pulled from Dallas County's certified appraisal roll (source file dallascad_2026_certified_07232026), dated August 1, 2026 — the most recent snapshot ingested for this neighborhood.
How many Elmwood properties does this data actually cover?
The neighborhood has 1,584 total parcels in that August 1, 2026 Dallas County snapshot; 1,502 of them had enough comparable data to be evaluated, and 580 of those evaluated parcels had a protest case, which is where the reduction figures above come from.
Why is there such a wide range between the smallest and largest past reductions?
Because the underlying per-square-foot values in Elmwood vary that widely too — from $61 to $340 per square foot among similarly sized homes in the same August 1, 2026 Dallas County data — so how much any one case's numbers differ from its comps varies case by case rather than following one typical figure.