One of the fastest-growing cities in America: new construction on the US-75 corridor north of McKinney.
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Anna sits on US-75 in northern Collin County, north of McKinney and roughly halfway to Sherman, and it is growing about as fast as any city in the country. The Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimate put Anna at 35,245 residents as of July 1, 2025, up 10.2% in a single year and the fifth-fastest percentage growth of any US city with 20,000 or more people. That growth is the story. What you buy in Anna is new or nearly-new construction inside master-planned communities like Hurricane Creek, at a median owner-reported home value of $351,700 (US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year). What you trade for it is distance and time: Anna is a commuter town with no significant private employer base, and the average resident’s trip to work runs 30.7 minutes.
New-construction master-planned communities and commuter households on the US-75 corridor
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A Centurion American / Lennar master-planned community with trails, a pool and park areas; retail and a hotel are planned inside the masterplan. Anna’s flagship new-home address.
Sited at US-75 and FM-455 and planned for 900+ single-family homes plus multi-family, garden homes and townhomes, a genuine spread of price points rather than one product type.
Understanding Anna's community composition helps buyers match lifestyle preferences with neighborhood character. The figures below reference recent American Community Survey estimates and city planning reports.
Total Population
35,245
US Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city population estimate, as of July 1, 2025.
One-Year Growth
+10.2%
July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025 (US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025). The 5th-fastest percentage growth of any US city with 20,000+ residents.
Median Age
32.1 years
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate (table B01002).
Median Household Income
$105,593
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate, in 2024 dollars.
Homeownership Rate
78.5%
Owner-occupied share of occupied housing units, computed from US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B25003.
Median Home Value
$351,700
Median value of owner-occupied housing units, US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year (table B25077). Owner-reported value, not a sale price.
Anna High SchoolHigh
Anna ISD’s comprehensive high school, grades 9-12.
Slayter Creek Middle SchoolMiddle
One of Anna ISD’s two middle school campuses.
Clemons Creek Middle SchoolMiddle
One of Anna ISD’s two middle school campuses.
Joe K. Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary
Anna ISD elementary campus.
Judith Lindsey Harlow Elementary SchoolElementary
Anna ISD elementary campus.
L. Dow Hendricks Elementary SchoolElementary
Anna ISD elementary campus.
Sue Evelyn Rattan Elementary SchoolElementary
Anna ISD elementary campus.
Rosamond-Sherley Elementary SchoolElementary
Anna ISD elementary campus.
Anna ISD (district overview)All
One high school, two middle schools and five elementaries, plus an Academic Achievement Center (alternative program). Attendance zones move often in a district growing this fast. Never take a builder’s campus assignment on faith; check Anna ISD’s current zone map for the specific address.
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Answers to common questions about living, buying, and relocating to Anna, Texas.
Anna Independent School District, and only Anna ISD. Unlike several neighboring towns, Anna is not split across multiple districts: Anna ISD serves the City of Anna, and also the census-designated place of Westminster. It runs eight campuses: Anna High School; Slayter Creek and Clemons Creek middle schools; and Joe K. Bryant, Judith Lindsey Harlow, L. Dow Hendricks, Sue Evelyn Rattan and Rosamond-Sherley elementaries, plus an Academic Achievement Center. One real caveat: attendance zones inside the district change frequently because it is growing so fast, so confirm the current campus assignment for a specific address on the district’s own zone map before you write an offer.
Very fast, and it is documented rather than marketed. The US Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimates put Anna at 35,245 residents as of July 1, 2025: a 10.2% increase in a single year, and the fifth-fastest percentage growth of any US city with at least 20,000 people. If you see a lower figure quoted, it is probably 24,330: that is the ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimate, which averages five years and therefore lags a city moving this quickly. Both numbers are real; they measure different things. Always quote the date with the number.
The honest answer is that we can give you a value, not a price. The US Census ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimate puts the median value of owner-occupied homes in Anna at $351,700, which is what owners report their homes are worth, not what homes actually closed for. No credible, citable median sale price for Anna was available, so we will not print one. What the median does tell you is directional and useful: Anna prices below the established Collin County suburbs a buyer is usually comparing it against. For a real number on a real house, we pull live comps.
It is a commute, so plan for it. Anna’s mean travel time to work is 30.7 minutes (US Census ACS 2020-2024 five-year). US-75 (Central Expressway) is the primary corridor, with SH-5 as a parallel north-south alternate and FM-455 running east-west; SH-121 is reachable to the south. There is no rail service. Most Anna households drive south on US-75 toward McKinney, Plano, Frisco and Dallas. We do not publish drive-time-to-Dallas figures, because no credible source for them exists. Drive it yourself at rush hour before you commit.
Mostly, somewhere else. Anna is predominantly a commuter community, and we would rather say that plainly: neither the City of Anna nor the Anna EDC publishes a largest-employers list with headcounts, because there is no significant private employment base inside the city. The employers that are in town are public: Anna ISD and the City of Anna. The job centers people actually commute to are McKinney, Plano, Frisco and Dallas to the south, and Sherman to the north.
The two we can point to from primary developer sources are Hurricane Creek (a Centurion American / Lennar master-planned community with trails, a pool and park areas, with retail and a hotel planned inside the masterplan) and The Villages of Hurricane Creek at US-75 and FM-455, planned for more than 900 single-family homes alongside multi-family, garden homes and townhomes. Anna has other subdivisions, but this page lists only what we could verify from a primary source. Ask and we will walk the current inventory with you rather than reciting names off a directory.
It is a new-construction market where the money buys square footage, still building out its retail and services, and it comes with a real commute. The demographics: median age 32.1, 39.1% of residents aged 25-44, 28.8% under 18, and a 78.5% homeownership rate. If you need an established restaurant scene, a short drive to a Dallas office, or a house with mature trees, Anna is the wrong shape for you, and we will say so.
Yes. Anna is in Collin County, on the US-75 corridor north of McKinney and roughly halfway between McKinney and Sherman. Your appraisal, protest and homestead exemption filings run through the Collin Central Appraisal District.
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Every public campus inside Anna city limits, with the letter grade and score the Texas Education Agency published for it in 2025. Enrolment and grades come straight from TEA's accountability download and the federal school directory, so nothing here is a third-party score that nobody refreshes.
Attendance boundaries are set by the district, not the city, and they get redrawn as new campuses open. A campus being the closest one is not the same as being the assigned one. Confirm the assignment for the exact address with the district before you write an offer - and if the school is a reason you are buying, ask Mali to put the district's written confirmation in your file.
Collin County · 8 campuses in town
Anna ISD · Grades PreK-5
Anna ISD · Grades PreK-5
Anna ISD · Grades PreK-5
Anna ISD · Grades PreK-5
Anna ISD · Grades 6-8
Anna ISD · Grades 6-8
Anna ISD · Grades 9-12
Anna ISD · Grades 9-12
Anna homes are taxed by 4 separate governments, and the combined 2025 adopted rate is 2.00% per year of appraised value. That is the number before any exemption and before the special districts below - which is why the figure on a listing page and the figure on your first tax bill are so rarely the same.
| Taxing unit | Rate per $100 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anna ISD | 1.239900 | 62% |
| City of Anna | 0.525073 | 26% |
| Collin County | 0.149343 | 7% |
| College district | 0.081220 | 4% |
| Combined | 1.995536 | 100% |
Collin County has no hospital district, which is the main structural reason its cities run below their Dallas County neighbours rather than anything about how Anna budgets.
Starts at the Anna median single-family value.
No exemption
$6,886
What an investor or second-home owner pays.
With homestead
$5,014
Effective rate 1.4531% of market value.
You keep
$1,872
Per year, once the exemption is filed and granted.
| Unit | Exemption | Taxed on | Tax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna ISD | $140,000 | $205,087 | $2,543 |
| City | $10,353 | $334,734 | $1,758 |
| County | $17,254 | $327,833 | $490 |
| College district | $69,017 | $276,070 | $224 |
Every school district in Texas must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value. Cities, counties and college districts may each adopt up to 20% on top, and several here adopt nothing at all - which is why this has to be worked out one unit at a time rather than netted against the combined rate. Year one is billed at full market value; the 10% appraisal cap starts the January after your exemption is granted.
Collin County has 28 special districts levying their own rate on top of everything above - 23 Municipal Utility Districts, 3 Municipal Management Districts, 1 Water Control & Improvement Districts, 1 Fresh Water Supply Districts. Adopted 2025 rates run from 0.41 to 1.20 per $100. At the top of that range a district adds more than half again the entire Anna stack, and none of it is reduced by a homestead exemption.
These follow subdivision boundaries, not city limits, so two houses a mile apart in Anna can differ by a full point. They are most common in newer master-planned communities, because that is what the bonds paid to build.
A Public Improvement District is not a taxing unit. It is an assessment a city levies on the specific parcels that benefited from the roads, water and amenities its bonds paid for - set per parcel, absent from every rate table and every listing-site tax estimate, and not reduced by a homestead exemption because it is not a tax. It typically runs the life of the bonds, often 20 to 40 years, and can frequently be paid off in a lump sum. In a new-build community that is the difference between the budget you built and the payment you owe, and the option period is when you find out.
HOA dues are a private contract with the neighbourhood association. They are not on the tax bill, not collected by the county, not deductible, and not touched by any exemption - and a community can have an HOA and a MUD and a PID at once, which is the combination that catches people out. Ask for the dues, the transfer fee, the reserve study and any special assessment in writing, and read them alongside the tax bill rather than instead of it.