How Tatum is run
Tatum spent $1.7 million in the year to June 30, 2022, about $1,211 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Tatum is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
The typical homeowner pays $2,245 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 1.15% of the home’s value, vs 1.49% across Texas.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Tatum’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
About $1,211 per resident a year, or $3.32 a day
The biggest line: water & other utilities, at 39% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Tatum didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
Who’s in charge in Tatum
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Tatum yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 177 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
Tatum Independent School District
Tatum’s K–12 school district. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $14,388 per pupil, $8,403 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Texas districts overall: 51% local, 36% state, 13% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Tatum.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Texas HouseState representatives
- 3Texas SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Texas
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Tatum’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Tatum is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Tatum, mostly the Bureau’s estimates). School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.