Texas Absentee Owners
2,412,411 parcels across 10 Texas counties are owned by someone who does not live there — their mailing address on the county appraisal roll differs from the property address. 295,279 of them are mailed somewhere outside Texas entirely. No homestead attachment, often inherited or long-held, and frequently unaware of what the property is now worth: it is the highest-intent list in Texas real estate.
Coverage by county
| County | Metro | Absentee Parcels | Owned Out of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris County | Houston | 698,868 | 60,523 |
| Dallas County | Dallas | 309,361 | 56,444 |
| Bexar County | San Antonio | 278,399 | 32,615 |
| Tarrant County | Fort Worth | 272,439 | 36,444 |
| Travis County | Austin | 248,720 | 36,576 |
| Fort Bend County | Houston | 173,184 | 25,047 |
| Cameron County | Brownsville | 119,299 | 8,949 |
| Denton County | Dallas-Fort Worth | 112,664 | 15,420 |
| Williamson County | Austin | 111,236 | 17,818 |
| Nueces County | Corpus Christi | 88,241 | 5,443 |
These are the 10 counties processed for absentee status as of 2026-08-06. Texas Signals holds parcel data for many more counties that have not been processed for this signal yet — they are absent from this table rather than listed at zero, because zero would be a claim about the county instead of a statement about our coverage.
Search all 2,412,411 absentee owners
Full owner mailing addresses, in-state vs. out-of-state filtering, market values and parcel detail — alongside pre-foreclosures, tax delinquencies, permits and code violations on the same map.
What counts as an absentee owner
A parcel is flagged absentee when the owner’s mailing address on the county appraisal roll does not contain the property’s street address — the owner is not living there. Counts are exact SQL over each county’s canonical parcel segment as of 2026-08-06, not estimates and not extrapolated from a sample. Duplicate, mineral and malformed-address parcel segments are excluded, so no parcel is counted twice.