Anaheim, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Anaheim house pays

Q: What is the property tax rate in Anaheim?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Orange County (tax rate area 01-001)), plus flat charges on the same bill (OC San regional sewer service fee $397, Metropolitan Water District water standby charge (Anaheim) $9, OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: mosquito, fire ant and disease control assessment (District No. 2) $9, OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: vector surveillance and control assessment (District No. 1) $2).

Q: How much is property tax on a $500,000 house in Anaheim?

About $5,998 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $417 of flat charges.

Q: How much is the water bill in Anaheim?

About $91 a month for water and sewer at typical use (16 units, or 11,968 gallons a month) on City of Anaheim (Anaheim Public Utilities).

Q: How much does trash pickup cost in Anaheim?

$30 to $31 a month, depending on the trash cart size (64- or 35-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included), 96-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included)).

Q: When is property tax due in Anaheim?

Dec 10: First property tax installment (due Nov 1) is delinquent after Dec 10: 10% penalty. Apr 10: Second property tax installment (due Feb 1) is delinquent after Apr 10: 10% penalty plus $23 per bill.

Q: Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Anaheim?

Yes. Seniors 62+, long-term disabled or veterans (income-qualified): 12% off the utility bill: Anaheim Public Utilities customers who are 62 or older, have a long-term disability, or are military veterans, and meet the income guidelines, can get a 12% credit on the electric and water portions of their bill. The program is subject to available funding.

Property tax, water, trash and energy from public rates. Look up your address to make it yours, and see how to pay less.

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Example · a Anaheim house

$14,651a year · $1,221 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $831,200; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

Property tax$9,331
1.132% of $831,200, less $7,000 homeowners' exemption
Flat charges on the tax bill$417
OC San regional sewer service fee $397 · Metropolitan Water District water standby charge (Anaheim) $9 · OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: mosquito, fire ant and disease control assessment (District No. 2) $9 · OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: vector surveillance and control assessment (District No. 1) $2
Electricity and gas$1,952
466.6758 kWh a month $1,126 · 35 therms $827
Water and sewer$1,087
16 units (CCF) a month on City of Anaheim (Anaheim Public Utilities): water $81, sewer $8, street sweeping $2 a month
Trash$371
96-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included), $31 a month
Home insurance$1,492
Typical premium $1,492

A Anaheim house at the typical market value ($831,200) pays about $14,700 a year: $9,750 property tax and charges, $1,090 water and sewer, $370 trash, $1,950 electricity and gas, $1,490 home insurance. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Rates checked Oct 21, 2026. Insurance: what you enter, or a typical premium until you do. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Ways to pay less

Nothing here applies to every house automatically. These are worth checking:

Switch to the 64- or 35-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included) cartUp to $16 a year
Your cart costs $31 a month; the smallest costs $30. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: For container exchanges and other trash services, contact Republic Services Customer Service at 714-238-2444.
Seniors 62+, long-term disabled or veterans (income-qualified): 12% off the utility bill12% off electric and water
Anaheim Public Utilities customers who are 62 or older, have a long-term disability, or are military veterans, and meet the income guidelines, can get a 12% credit on the electric and water portions of their bill. The program is subject to available funding.
How: Apply online or mail the enrollment form from APU's Utility Discount Program page (anaheim.net/1520); call 714-765-3300.
Temporary hardship: emergency bill credit$250 electric + $100 water, once every 3 years
APU's Emergency Assistance Program gives qualified residential customers facing temporary financial hardship a credit of $250 toward electric service and $100 for water service, once every three years.
How: See APU's Bill Assistance page (anaheim.net/6524) or call 714-765-3300.
Water-saving rebates and a free Home Utility Check-Up
APU offers the Home Utility Check-Up, a free home energy and water use survey, and rebates on clothes washers, toilets, turf replacement, weather-based irrigation controllers, rotating sprinkler nozzles, soil moisture sensors, flow monitor devices, leak repairs and rain barrels.
How: Call 714-765-3300 or visit anaheim.net/ForYourHome.
Three free bulky item pickups a year
Each household gets three bulky item pickups per calendar year from Republic Services at no cost, up to 20 items per pickup.
How: Schedule with Republic Services Customer Service at (714) 238-2444.
Rebate for undergrounding your electric service wires$200 – $800 rebate on average
APU's Home Undergrounding (HUG) program gives homeowners a rebate, on average between $200 and $800, toward placing overhead electric service wires underground, and APU supplies and installs the new wires at no cost.
How: Apply at anaheim.net/HUGProgram or call 714-765-5156.
Low income: SoCalGas CARE20% off the gas bill
Customers enrolled in the CARE program receive a 20% discount on their monthly natural gas bill.
How: Apply online with SoCalGas; for more information call 1-800-427-2200.

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartStandard residential service comes with one recycling cart and one organics (food and yard waste) cart at no extra charge.

Value before exemptionsUnder Prop 13 your assessed value starts at your purchase price and can rise at most 2% a year, so it is often far below market: use the assessed value on your tax bill. Homes in a Mello-Roos community facilities district also pay a special tax shown on the same bill; the City has formed such districts for some newer developments, such as CFD No. 08-1 (Platinum Triangle). Check the special taxes listed on your bill.

I live here and have the Homeowners' exemption

Home insurance, a yearFrom your policy. We start at $1,492, NAIC data via the Insurance Information Institute; California figures from the California Department of Insurance.

Earthquake insurance, a yearSeparate from home insurance. Most owners don't have it.

Your use

Water, units a month

On your water bill. 1 unit (CCF) is 748 gallons. A typical Anaheim house uses about 16.

Electricity, kWh a month

On your Anaheim Public Utilities bill. An electric car adds about 300 kWh.

Gas, therms a month (yearly average)

Money dates

Nov 30, 2026in 38 daysLast day to file a 2026 regular assessment appeal in Orange County (filing runs July 2 to November 30 at 5:00 p.m.).
Dec 10in 48 daysFirst property tax installment (due Nov 1) is delinquent after Dec 10: 10% penalty.
Feb 15in 115 daysLast day for a first-time homeowners' exemption claim to get the full exemption for the year.
Apr 10Second property tax installment (due Feb 1) is delinquent after Apr 10: 10% penalty plus $23 per bill.

Who serves this house

Water: City of Anaheim (Anaheim Public Utilities); Anaheim Public Utilities; most residential customers are billed every two months. A monthly customer charge by meter size ($15.00 for a 5/8 x 3/4-inch meter) plus, per hundred cubic feet (HCF), the $0.15 commodity charge, the $2.71 water commodity adjustment (from March 1, 2026) and the $1.25 water system reliability adjustment (from April 3, 2026): $4.11 per HCF in all.
Property tax: 1.13% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Orange County (tax rate area 01-001)
Garbage: Republic Services; The City of Anaheim contracts with Republic Services for trash, recycling and yard waste collection; the charge is on the Anaheim Public Utilities bill.
Sewer: City of Anaheim + OC San; The City maintains the local sewer lines, which carry wastewater to OC San's treatment plants; OC San's sewer service fee is on the property tax bill.
Electricity: Anaheim Public Utilities; Electric power is provided to the City by Anaheim Public Utilities (APU), a not-for-profit agency.
Gas: SoCalGas; SoCalGas provides natural gas service in and has facilities throughout the City of Anaheim.
Schools: Several districts; Districts serving Anaheim include Anaheim Elementary, Magnolia, Savanna, Centralia, Anaheim Union High, Orange Unified and Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified.

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: A blend of groundwater, managed by the Orange County Water District, and imported water from Northern California and the Colorado River; in 2025 local groundwater served over 80% of customers.
Hardness: Groundwater total hardness averaged 18 grains per gallon (316 ppm as CaCO3), range 9 to 25 grains across sources, in 2025.
Lead: Lead at household taps: 90th percentile below 5 ppb (ND<5), 0 of 51 sites over the action level, sampled in 2025. The City's service line inventory found no lead service lines.
Violations: A monitoring violation: one haloacetic acid sample from a distribution site was not collected in the third quarter of 2025.

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How these numbers are made

Individual bills are confidential in California, so we calculate yours from public rates and what you tell us.
Water (Anaheim Public Utilities): the $15.00 monthly customer charge for a 5/8 x 3/4-inch meter plus $4.11 per HCF for all water ($0.15 commodity charge + $2.71 water commodity adjustment from March 1, 2026 + $1.25 water system reliability adjustment from April 3, 2026; there are no usage tiers). The page starts at 16 HCF a month, the typical residential customer in APU's February 2026 rate notice. A few small areas inside the city are served by other water purveyors and are not modeled. Sewer: the City's $7.50 monthly wastewater maintenance charge on the APU bill; OC San's $397 single-family fee is counted with the tax bill. Trash: the City's July 1, 2026 residential rates ($30.94 a month with a 96-gallon trash cart, $29.64 with a 64- or 35-gallon cart; recycling and one organics cart included), plus the $2.33 monthly residential street sweeping charge.
Property tax: tax rate area 01-001 (Anaheim Elementary, Anaheim Union High, North Orange County Community College District and Metropolitan Water District), 1.13216% in total for 2026-27 from the Orange County tax rate book, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption, applied to the value you enter. Anaheim is split among many school districts; by our count of 2020 Census housing units whose block centroids fall inside the city, about 56% are in Anaheim Elementary (1.13216%), 16% in Orange Unified (Anaheim Hills and the east, 1.05993%), 12% in Magnolia (1.10791%), 8% in Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified (1.08146%), 4% in Savanna (1.14794%) and 4% in Centralia (1.13546%). Flat charges: OC San's $397 single-family sewer fee, the Metropolitan Water District standby charge for Anaheim ($8.55 per parcel under an acre) and the two countywide Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District assessments ($9.34 and $1.92). Mello-Roos special taxes and other assessments that only some parcels carry are not included. The starting value is the Census median market value; under Prop 13 a home's assessed value can be far lower.
Electricity: APU Schedule D (May 1, 2024; no seasons): $8.00 customer charge, 14.00¢ per kWh for the first 300 kWh a month (the 10 kWh-a-day lifeline allowance) and 21.49¢ above, plus the Rate Stabilization Adjustment from December 1, 2025 ($0.0055 per kWh on all use and $0.0100 on use above lifeline). We add the 4% undergrounding surcharge to all of those charges (APU's program page does not say which charges it applies to) and the state's $0.0003 per kWh energy surcharge, so $8.32 a month plus about 15.16¢ and 23.99¢ per kWh. Typical use is APU's 2024 residential average from EIA, about 467 kWh a month. APU's bill guide lists no city tax on the utility bill, and none is added.
Gas: SoCalGas's August 2026 average non-CARE bill ($68.91 at 35 therms), taken as including the $0.16-a-day customer charge (about $4.87 a month), so $4.87 a month plus $1.830 per therm. Both energy figures are averages; real bills vary by season and use. Insurance starts at the 2022 California average homeowners premium (NAIC via the Insurance Information Institute) until you enter your own.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Anaheim compares

A typical Anaheim house against the 110 California cities we cover, using the same default numbers as the total above.

Per year	Anaheim	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.13%	1.13%	higher than 55 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$969	$955	higher than 58 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$118	$584	lower than 67 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$371	$438	lower than 82 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$1,952	$3,556	lower than 108 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Home insurance	$1,492	$1,492	in the middle of 108 other California cities we cover
Total	$14,651	$15,240	lower than 65 of the other 109 California cities we cover

Cities bill differently (some put trash on the tax bill, some cover more services), so a higher number isn't necessarily worse. The property tax rate is compared instead of dollars because house values differ.

Questions to ask your candidates

Each one starts from a number above. Any candidate can answer them.

1. Sewer and utility-bill fees

The fact: Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here come to about $118 a year, lower than 67 of the other 76 California cities we cover. Some cities bill sewer on the property tax bill instead, which is not counted here.

Ask: "Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here cost about $118 a year, lower than 67 of the other 76 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

2. Trash

The fact: Trash pickup here costs about $371 a year for the standard cart, lower than 82 of the other 101 California cities we cover. Where trash is billed through the tax bill or a separate hauler, it is not counted here.

Ask: "Trash pickup here costs about $371 a year for the standard cart, lower than 82 of the other 101 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything about the service or the price?"

3. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $1,952 a year, lower than 108 of the other 109 California cities we cover. Rates are set mostly by the utility and the state.

Ask: "Electricity and gas here cost about $1,952 a year for a typical house, lower than 108 of the other 109 California cities we cover. Which parts of that can the city influence, and what would you do about them?"

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Common questions about Anaheim house costs

What is the property tax rate in Anaheim?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Orange County (tax rate area 01-001)), plus flat charges on the same bill (OC San regional sewer service fee $397, Metropolitan Water District water standby charge (Anaheim) $9, OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: mosquito, fire ant and disease control assessment (District No. 2) $9, OC Mosquito and Vector Control District: vector surveillance and control assessment (District No. 1) $2).

How much is property tax on a $500,000 house in Anaheim?

About $5,998 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $417 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Anaheim?

About $91 a month for water and sewer at typical use (16 units, or 11,968 gallons a month) on City of Anaheim (Anaheim Public Utilities).

How much does trash pickup cost in Anaheim?

$30 to $31 a month, depending on the trash cart size (64- or 35-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included), 96-gallon trash cart (recycling and organics carts included)).

When is property tax due in Anaheim?

Dec 10: First property tax installment (due Nov 1) is delinquent after Dec 10: 10% penalty. Apr 10: Second property tax installment (due Feb 1) is delinquent after Apr 10: 10% penalty plus $23 per bill.

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Anaheim?

Yes. Seniors 62+, long-term disabled or veterans (income-qualified): 12% off the utility bill: Anaheim Public Utilities customers who are 62 or older, have a long-term disability, or are military veterans, and meet the income guidelines, can get a 12% credit on the electric and water portions of their bill. The program is subject to available funding.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Anaheim?

Seniors 62+, long-term disabled or veterans (income-qualified): 12% off the utility bill: Anaheim Public Utilities customers who are 62 or older, have a long-term disability, or are military veterans, and meet the income guidelines, can get a 12% credit on the electric and water portions of their bill. The program is subject to available funding. Apply online or mail the enrollment form from APU's Utility Discount Program page (anaheim.net/1520); call 714-765-3300.

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