San Antonio sales tax rate (TX)

8.25% in San Antonio — high. It ranks 38 of 94 covered metros, +0.3 pts against the 7.95% median. On $26,000 of taxable household spending that is $2,145 a year, $78 above it.

Local government sets 2% of the total, 24% of the bill; the state takes 6.25%. 3 layers stack: Texas state 6.25%, City of San Antonio 1.125%, VIA Metropolitan Transit and ATD 0.875%. The City of San Antonio increment at 1.125% is the largest local piece — 56% of everything local, worth $293 a year on its own.

2 of 7 covered Texas metros, level with the 8.25% state median. The in-state spread runs 8.25% in Arlington to 8.25% in Houston — 0 points wide. San Antonio is the cheapest covered metro in Texas; no in-state line is worth crossing.

Same bracket nationally: Bakersfield, CA (8.25%); Reno, NV (8.265%); Houston, TX (8.25%). A household relocating between San Antonio and any of them sees no meaningful change in sales tax.

Scale: 1,495,295 residents, roughly 598,118 households. At $26,000 of taxable spend each, the 2% local share pulls about $311,021,360 a year from residents alone — before any visitor or business spending, which in a metro this size is where the rest comes from.

San Antonio splits its local 2% unusually: an eighth-cent goes to aquifer protection and pre-K programs rather than transit.

Rates move when a district measure passes or a local option expires. Confirm the current figure with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts before filing or quoting it to a customer.