Danville, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Danville 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 Danville house

$20,842a year · $1,737 a month

Starts at $1,186,946 of value before exemptions. Typical use.

Property tax$12,929
1.096% of $1,186,946, less $7,000 homeowners' exemption
Flat charges on the tax bill$1,248
Sewer $784 · SRVUSD parcel tax (Measure Q) $144 · Danville lighting & landscape assessment (DANVILLE ST LT) $264 · County stormwater charge (FED STORMWATER A-4) $30 · SF Bay Restoration Authority parcel tax (Measure AA) $12 · East Bay regional trails assessment $5 · Mosquito & vector control $5 · Emergency medical services charge (EMERGENCY MED A) $4
Electricity and gas$3,705
500 kWh a month $2,726 · 31.72 therms $979
Water$927
5 units (CCF) a month on East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD): water $77 a month
Trash$541
32-gal landfill, $45 a month
Home insurance$1,492
Typical premium $1,492

A typical Danville house pays about $20,900 a year: $14,180 property tax and charges, $930 water, $540 trash, $3,710 electricity and gas, $1,490 home insurance. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Rates checked Oct 22, 2026. Insurance: what you enter, or a typical premium until you do. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Ways to pay less

One change saves this house about $144 a year:

Seniors 65+: SRVUSD parcel tax exemption
$144 a year
A parcel owned and occupied by a person 65 or older is exempt from the school district's $144-a-year Measure Q parcel tax on application; income-qualified owners receiving SSI or SSDI for a disability can also be exempt. You file only once, unless you move to another home in the district.
How: Seniors: the Senior Citizen Exemption Form must be received by May 31 for the upcoming tax year; you must be 65 by July 1, live in the home as your primary residence and have the homeowners' exemption (HEX). SSI/SSDI recipients use the SSI/SSDI Exemption Form.

Worth checking

Switch to the 20-gal landfill cartUp to $53 a year
Your cart costs $45 a month; the smallest costs $41. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: Republic Services handles all service requests (925-685-4711). If you do not regularly fill your landfill cart you can downsize, for example from the standard 32-gallon cart to a 20-gallon cart.
Low-income households: EBMUD Customer Assistance Program50% off water service charge
Eligible single-family customers can get 50% off the standard bimonthly water service charge and 50% off home water use (up to 1,050 gallons per person a month). A household of 1-2 qualifies with income of $67,900 or less. Enrollment lasts up to two years.
How: Apply online through EBMUD's CAP application.
Income-qualified households: PG&E CARE or FERA30–35% off electricity
CARE takes 30–35% off electricity and drops the base services charge to $6 a month; FERA takes 18% off for incomes slightly above the CARE limit.
How: Apply with PG&E; application forms are also available through community agencies.
EBMUD lawn conversion rebateUp to $2.00 per sq. ft.
EBMUD pays up to $2.00 per square foot to convert a lawn to a water-wise garden; landscape rebates for a home are capped at $2,000 in any 24-month period.
How: Apply through EBMUD's rebates page.
Free extra pickups and Reuse & Clean-up Days5 on-call pickups + 2 clean-up days a year
The residential rate includes 4 on-call collections of yard trimmings and/or recyclables and 1 on-call landfill collection per rate year at no additional cost, plus two pre-scheduled Reuse and Clean-up Days a year.
How: Call Republic Services at 925-685-4711 to schedule an on-call pickup; look up your Reuse Day dates at recyclesmart.org/cleanup.
Seniors, blind or disabled: postpone property taxesDefer this year's taxes
The State Controller's Property Tax Postponement program lets eligible homeowners postpone payment of current-year property taxes on their primary residence.
How: Go to www.ptp.sco.ca.gov, call (800) 952-5661 or email postponement@sco.ca.gov.

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartThe price is set by the size of your landfill (garbage) cart; weekly recycling and organics collection are included. 32 gallons is the standard cart.

Value before exemptionsEnter the assessed (net) value from your tax bill: under Prop 13 it is often well below what the house would sell for. The Danville lighting and landscape line (DANVILLE ST LT) differs by neighborhood, from $226.10 to $301.24 on the bills we sampled ($254.56, $264.02 and $292.48 are common). The county stormwater line is $30.00 on most bills and $21.00 or $51.00 on some. A home with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) pays Central San's $348.00 ADU charge on top of the $784.00 single-family sewer charge.

I live here and have the Homeowners' exemptionSomeone on the title is 65 or older

Home insurance, a yearFrom your policy. We start at $1,492, California statewide average, NAIC data for 2022 as published by 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 Danville house uses about 5.

Electricity, kWh a month

On your PG&E delivery with MCE Light Green generation bill. An electric car adds about 300 kWh.

Gas, therms a month (yearly average)

Money dates

Nov 1in 9 daysFirst property tax installment due; pay by Dec 10, 2026 to avoid a 10% late-payment penalty.
Nov 30, 2026in 38 daysLast day of Contra Costa County's 2026 assessment appeal filing period (opened July 2).
Feb 1in 101 daysSecond-installment coupon date (Feb 1, 2027); after April 12, 2027 a 10% late-payment penalty and a $20 cost are added.
Feb 15in 115 daysLast day for a first-time homeowners' exemption claim to get the full exemption for that year.

Who serves this house

Water: East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD); EBMUD rates effective July 1, 2026: a $28.60 monthly service charge for a 5/8 or 3/4 inch meter ($57.20 on a bimonthly bill) plus $8.40 per unit (CCF) for the first 7 units a month, $9.74 from 7 to 16 units and $11.49 above 16 units. Bills for services in Elevation Band 2 add an elevation surcharge of $1.33 per unit, and Elevation Band 3 adds $2.84; the surcharge pays for pumping water to locations 200 or more feet above sea level
Property tax: 1.10% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Contra Costa County (Danville tax rate area 16002)
Garbage: Republic Services (RecycleSmart); RecycleSmart (the Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority) manages solid waste services in Danville; Republic Services collects landfill, recycling and organics carts under its franchise and handles billing.
Sewer: Central San; Central San's sewer service charge is billed on the Contra Costa County property tax bill as CCCSD SEWER CHG.
Electricity: MCE generation, PG&E delivery; Danville is an MCE member community (since 2018): MCE is the default electricity generation provider, and PG&E delivers the power and sends the bill.
Gas: PG&E; Danville is in PG&E's gas service territory.
Schools: San Ramon Valley Unified School District; San Ramon Valley Unified bonds and community college bonds are part of the property tax rate; the school district's $144 Measure Q parcel tax is also on the bill.

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Your water

Source: EBMUD's main supply is snow and rain in the Mokelumne River watershed in the Sierra Nevada, carried 90 miles by aqueduct to East Bay treatment plants and reservoirs.
Lead: EBMUD says its treatment plants supply no lead; in its tap sampling, 0 of 53 sites were above the lead action level.
PFAS: EBMUD has finished its initial PFAS monitoring under the new rules, and all results so far have met the standards.

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How these numbers are made

Garbage: RecycleSmart's Danville single-family rates effective March 1, 2026 (rate year 12), per month: $40.67 for a 20-gallon landfill cart, $45.08 for the standard 32-gallon cart, $76.68 for 64 gallons and $113.84 for 96 gallons, each including weekly recycling and organics collection. Republic Services bills them quarterly (three months at a time). Hard-to-serve rates are higher and not shown.
Water: EBMUD Schedule A from July 1, 2026, monthly-billing column: $28.60 service charge for a 5/8 or 3/4 inch meter and $8.40, $9.74 and $11.49 per unit (to 7, to 16 and above 16 units a month), plus the $1.33 Elevation Band 2 surcharge on every unit ($9.73, $11.07, $12.82). EBMUD sets the band by pressure zone; we assume Band 2 because the surcharge covers pumping to places 200 feet or more above sea level and Danville's valley floor is roughly 350 to 500 feet; hillside homes in Band 3 pay $1.51 more per unit than shown. The page starts at 5 units a month, EBMUD's median single-family use. EPA's water-system boundary map puts all of Danville in EBMUD's system (CA0110005).
Sewer: Central San's $784.00 single-family charge (Ordinance 339, from July 1, 2026), on the tax bill as CCCSD SEWER CHG and counted with the tax bill's flat charges. It was on all 29 Danville single-family bills we sampled; 3 of them were charged $1,132.00, which is the $784.00 single-family charge plus Central San's $348.00 accessory dwelling unit (ADU) charge. There is no sewer charge on the EBMUD bill.
Property tax: Contra Costa County 2026-27 rates for tax rate area 16002, which holds 7,500 of Danville's 12,008 single-family parcels (use codes 11 and 19, tax rate areas 16xxx) in the county's parcel data. All 29 bills we sampled in 16002, 16005, 16006, 16013 and 16036 had the same 1.0957% rate: 1% countywide tax, 0.0624% San Ramon Valley Unified bonds (2002 and 2012 issues), 0.0152% community college bonds, 0.0163% BART and 0.0018% East Bay Regional Park District, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption. Flat charges on the sampled bills ($1,248.14 a year with sewer, on bills with the median lighting and landscape amount): Central San sewer $784.00, Danville lighting and landscape assessment (DANVILLE ST LT) $264.02 (the median of the 29 bills we sampled), SRVUSD Measure Q parcel tax $144, county stormwater $30, Measure AA $12, regional trails $5.44, mosquito and vector control $4.74 and emergency medical services $3.94. Across 29 sampled single-family bills the Danville lighting and landscape line was $292.48 on 9, $254.56 on 8, $264.02 on 6, $301.24 on 5 and $226.10 on 1; stormwater was $30 on 26 of 29.
The starting value is the median 2026 assessed value of single-family parcels (use code 11, single family, and 19, single family detached with common area) with a Danville address in Danville tax rate areas, $1,186,946; under Prop 13 recent buyers have higher assessed values. Homes with a Danville mailing address in unincorporated Alamo, Blackhawk or the Tassajara area are outside the town and not modelled. Some newer subdivisions may carry extra special taxes or assessments we did not find on the sampled bills.
Electricity: PG&E schedule E-1 for a non-CARE (Income Tier 3) home with MCE Light Green generation, the default for Danville (an MCE member since 2018). Delivery is PG&E's E-1 total bundled rate ($0.32561 Tier 1, $0.40702 Tier 2) minus its $0.12855 generation charge and its ($0.01011) Bundled PCIA; to that we add MCE's April 1, 2026 Light Green E1 generation ($0.12855) and the $0.03720 PCIA and franchise fee from the March 1, 2026 PG&E-MCE comparison: $0.37292 per kWh up to the baseline and $0.45433 above. PG&E's $0.79343 a day base services charge is $24.13 a month. Baseline: territory X (Contra Costa County outside the S and T portions), 9.8 kWh a day for 4 summer months and 9.7 for 8 winter months, about 296 kWh a month. Gas: PG&E G-1 (Oct. 1, 2026) $2.42480 and $2.92792 per therm plus the $0.12103 public purpose surcharge, territory X baseline weighted 7 summer, 3 off-peak and 2 on-peak months (about 30.1 therms a month). We found no town tax on Danville electricity or gas bills, so none is added. Typical use is PG&E's 2024 residential average (EIA, about 500 kWh a month) and California's 2024 residential gas average (EIA, about 32 therms a month). Insurance is 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 Danville compares

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

Per year	Danville	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.10%	1.13%	lower than 88 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$927	$955	lower than 62 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Trash	$541	$438	higher than 80 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,705	$3,556	higher than 77 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	$20,842	$15,240	higher than 94 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. Property tax rate

The fact: Danville's property tax rate is 1.10%, lower than 88 of the other 109 California cities we cover. The rate adds up every agency on the bill, not only the city.

Ask: "Property tax in Danville is 1.10%, lower than 88 of the other 109 California cities we cover. What should that money pay for first, and would you change anything about how it is set?"

2. Trash

The fact: Trash pickup here costs about $541 a year for the standard cart, higher than 80 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 $541 a year for the standard cart, higher than 80 of the other 101 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything about the service or the price?"

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Common questions about Danville house costs

What is the property tax rate in Danville?

About 1.10% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Contra Costa County (Danville tax rate area 16002)), plus flat charges on the same bill (Sewer $784, SRVUSD parcel tax (Measure Q) $144, Danville lighting & landscape assessment (DANVILLE ST LT) $264, County stormwater charge (FED STORMWATER A-4) $30).

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

About $6,650 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $1,248 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Danville?

About $77 a month for water at typical use (5 units, or 3,740 gallons a month) on East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD).

How much does trash pickup cost in Danville?

$41 to $114 a month, depending on the trash cart size (20-gal landfill, 32-gal landfill, 64-gal landfill, 96-gal landfill).

When is property tax due in Danville?

Nov 1: First property tax installment due; pay by Dec 10, 2026 to avoid a 10% late-payment penalty. Feb 1: Second-installment coupon date (Feb 1, 2027); after April 12, 2027 a 10% late-payment penalty and a $20 cost are added.

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Danville?

Yes. Seniors 65+: SRVUSD parcel tax exemption ($144 a year): A parcel owned and occupied by a person 65 or older is exempt from the school district's $144-a-year Measure Q parcel tax on application; income-qualified owners receiving SSI or SSDI for a disability can also be exempt. You file only once, unless you move to another home in the district.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Danville?

Seniors 65+: SRVUSD parcel tax exemption: A parcel owned and occupied by a person 65 or older is exempt from the school district's $144-a-year Measure Q parcel tax on application; income-qualified owners receiving SSI or SSDI for a disability can also be exempt. You file only once, unless you move to another home in the district. Seniors: the Senior Citizen Exemption Form must be received by May 31 for the upcoming tax year; you must be 65 by July 1, live in the home as your primary residence and have the homeowners' exemption (HEX). SSI/SSDI recipients use the SSI/SSDI Exemption Form.

How much does a house in Danville cost to run each year?

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