Corona, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Corona house pays

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 Corona house

$15,137a year · $1,261 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $700,700; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

Property tax$7,658
1.104% of $700,700, less $7,000 homeowners' exemption
Flat charges on the tax bill$43
LMD 84-1 street lighting assessment $34 · MWD standby charge (West) $9
Electricity and gas$3,972
633 kWh a month $3,145 · 35 therms $827
Water and sewer$1,590
13 units (CCF) a month on City of Corona Utilities Department: water $83, sewer $50 a month
Trash$381
Residential basic service (96-gallon trash, recycling and organics carts), $32 a month
Home insurance$1,492
Typical premium $1,492

A Corona house at the typical market value ($700,700) pays about $15,100 a year: $7,700 property tax and charges, $1,590 water and sewer, $380 trash, $3,970 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:

Income-qualified trash rate$23.81 instead of $31.79
WM's FY 2026-27 rate schedule for Corona lists an Income Qualified residential rate of $23.81, against $31.79 for Residential Basic. Single-family customers who apply and qualify for the City's income-qualified utility discount are entitled to a discount on trash collection fees.
How: For help with your Corona utility bills, contact Corona Utilities Customer Care at (951) 736-2321.
Income-qualified: SCE CARE rate32.5% off the electric bill
Through SCE's CARE program, qualifying households receive 32.5% off their electric bills and a Base Services Charge of about $6 a month.
How: Apply with SCE's CARE/FERA online application; no additional documentation is required.
Income-qualified: SoCalGas CARE20% off the gas bill
You may qualify for 20% off your monthly natural gas bill through SoCalGas's CARE program if you or someone in your household receives benefits such as Medi-Cal or CalFresh, or by household income.
How: Apply with SoCalGas's online CARE application.
More than four people? Ask for a bigger water budget
Each single-family home gets a default indoor water budget for four people. Homes with more residents, or that repaired a leak, may need a water budget variance.
How: Submit a residential variance form to Corona Utilities (online, by mail or email).
Water-saving rebatesUp to $250 per smart irrigation controller
Corona Utilities lists rebates of up to $175 per premium high-efficiency toilet (up to 8 per property) and up to $250 per weather-based irrigation controller (up to 2), while funding lasts.
How: Apply at SoCalWaterSmart.com.

Adjust to match your bills

What you know

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.

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 Corona house uses about 13.

Electricity, kWh a month

On your Southern California Edison 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 Riverside County (filing period July 2 to November 30, 2026).
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, becomes delinquent Apr 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 10% penalty.

Who serves this house

Water: City of Corona Utilities Department; The City of Corona Utilities Department bills water as a fixed Ready to Serve charge by meter size plus commodity charges per hundred cubic feet (hcf) in four tiers set by your water budget: Tier 1 for efficient indoor use, Tier 2 for efficient outdoor use, Tier 3 for 1% to 50% over budget and Tier 4 for 51% and over.
Property tax: 1.10% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (tax rate area 004-003: Corona-Norco Unified, Riverside City Community College and MWD West)
Garbage: Waste Management (WM); WM collects trash, recycling and organics under the City's franchise; since 2024 WM bills single-family homes directly, monthly, instead of a charge on the property tax bill.
Sewer: City of Corona Utilities Department; The Utilities Department provides sewer service to its water customers, billed as a monthly fixed charge.
Electricity: Southern California Edison (most of the city) or Corona Utilities; SCE provides electricity to most of the City. The City's own electric utility serves new developments in its electric service area; residential customers in Dos Lagos connected to the City's electric system pay a monthly service charge on their City bill.
Gas: SoCalGas; Southern California Gas Company provides natural gas service to the City.
Schools: Corona-Norco Unified (some homes Alvord Unified) + Riverside City Community College; Overlapping property tax rates in Corona include Corona/Norco School District, Alvord School District, Metropolitan Water District and Riverside City Community College; not all apply to every property owner.

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: In 2025, City of Corona groundwater wells provided 45.5% of Corona's water, 49.6% came through Lake Mathews from the Colorado River and 4.9% from the State Water Project's California Aqueduct.
Hardness: Average hardness in the system is 146 ppm or 8.5 grains per gallon, which the 2026 water quality report classifies as hard.
Lead: Lead at household taps (2023 sampling): the 90th percentile of 53 sites was 5 ppb, against a 15 ppb action level; 3 sites exceeded it.
Monitoring: During 2016-2025 the City did not complete all required monitoring at Standby Wells 03 and 21, which were not delivering water to the system; the required samples were taken in March 2026.

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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 (City of Corona Utilities Department, rates effective January 1, 2026): the $46.80 monthly Ready to Serve charge for a 3/4-inch meter, the size most Corona meters are (28,990 of 45,631 in the 2024 rate study, against 5,561 at 5/8 inch, which pays $35.75), plus four budget-based tiers per hcf. Corona sets each home's budget, so we model the rate study's standard single-family customer: an indoor budget of 4 people x 47 gallons x 30 days (about 7.5 hcf, Tier 1 at $2.13), an outdoor budget treating its 4,000 sq ft lot as irrigated at an ET of 5.91 inches and the 80% factor (about 15.8 hcf, Tier 2 at $3.60, total budget about 23.3 hcf), Tier 3 ($4.77) up to 150% of budget and Tier 4 ($5.69) above. Your real budget depends on household size, your irrigated area and each month's weather, and the City rounds budgets up to whole units. The page starts at 13 hcf a month, the average 3/4-inch residential customer in the rate study. The 2024 rate schedule raises rates each January through 2029.
Sewer: Corona's residential fixed charge, $50.01 a month per dwelling from January 1, 2026, with no usage charge for homes. Trash: WM's FY 2026-27 Residential Basic rate, $31.79 a month (the franchise rate schedule labels these rates monthly), billed monthly by WM.
Property tax: Riverside County's 2026-27 rates (resolution adopted August 25, 2026) for tax rate area 004-003, the area with the most single-family parcels in the City's parcel data (about 23%): the 1% levy, Corona-Norco Unified (0.0678%), Riverside City Community College (0.02767%) and MWD West (0.0085%), 1.10397% in total as printed on 2026 bills there, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption, applied to the value you enter. Homes in the Alvord Unified area pay that district's 0.195% instead of Corona-Norco's 0.0678%. The starting value is the Census median market value; under Prop 13 a home's assessed value can be far lower.
Fixed charges: the LMD 84-1 street lighting assessment ($34.22) and the MWD standby charge for the West area ($9.22), as on 2026 bills for ordinary single-family lots in tax rate area 004-003; LMD 84-1 depends on lot frontage and size, and homes with no street light in front pay about $10. Not included because they depend on the parcel: LMD 84-2 landscaping zones and the CFD 97-1 and 2001-1 landscape-maintenance CFDs (also Mello-Roos special taxes, usually smaller; most single-family parcels are in one of them), and Mello-Roos facilities special taxes. Facilities CFDs: by the City's parcel data, about 2,000 of some 33,800 single-family parcels (about 6%) are in active City facilities CFDs, mostly in south Corona (Eagle Glen, Dos Lagos, Highlands and other newer tracts; for example CFD 2000-1, Eagle Glen II, levied $412,223 in FY 2025, roughly $1,100 a parcel), plus Corona-Norco Unified school CFDs in newer tracts; older CFDs 86-2, 89-1 and 90-1 are inactive. Check your tax bill: these can add hundreds to a few thousand dollars a year.
Electricity: SCE's standard Domestic rate with SCE generation from SCE's joint rate comparison with neighboring San Jacinto Power ($0.37585 per kWh in total, SCE rates as of June 1, 2026; its $237.91 average bill at 633 kWh is that rate times the usage, so a year-round average), plus SCE's $24.15 monthly Base Services Charge. Homes on Corona's own electric utility (newer developments in its service area, such as Dos Lagos) pay the City's tiered rates instead ($16.54 a month plus 10.5 to 21.8 cents per kWh plus a public benefits charge). 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. Insurance starts at the 2022 California average.
Rates rise again on January 1, 2027 under the City's adopted water and sewer schedule (3/4-inch meter charge $51.02, tiers from $2.32, sewer $55.01), about $12.50 a month more for the typical home; this page uses the 2026 rates.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Corona compares

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

Per year	Corona	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.10%	1.13%	lower than 76 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$990	$955	higher than 60 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$600	$584	higher than 41 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$381	$438	lower than 75 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,972	$3,556	higher than 96 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	$15,137	$15,240	lower than 57 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. Trash

The fact: Trash pickup here costs about $381 a year for the standard cart, lower than 75 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 $381 a year for the standard cart, lower than 75 of the other 101 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything about the service or the price?"

2. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $3,972 a year, higher than 96 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 $3,972 a year for a typical house, higher than 96 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 Corona house costs

What is the property tax rate in Corona?

About 1.10% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (tax rate area 004-003: Corona-Norco Unified, Riverside City Community College and MWD West)), plus flat charges on the same bill (LMD 84-1 street lighting assessment $34, MWD standby charge (West) $9).

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

About $5,486 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $43 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Corona?

About $133 a month for water and sewer at typical use (13 units, or 9,724 gallons a month) on City of Corona Utilities Department.

How much does trash pickup cost in Corona?

$32 a month for a house.

When is property tax due in Corona?

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, becomes delinquent Apr 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 10% penalty.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Corona?

Income-qualified trash rate: WM's FY 2026-27 rate schedule for Corona lists an Income Qualified residential rate of $23.81, against $31.79 for Residential Basic. Single-family customers who apply and qualify for the City's income-qualified utility discount are entitled to a discount on trash collection fees. For help with your Corona utility bills, contact Corona Utilities Customer Care at (951) 736-2321.

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