Hemet, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Hemet 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 Hemet house

$11,105a year · $925 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $352,200; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

A Hemet house at the typical market value ($352,200) pays about $11,100 a year: $3,910 property tax and charges, $1,670 water and sewer, $440 trash, $3,600 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 standard curbside collection (64 gallon) cartUp to $61 a year
Your cart costs $36 a month; the smallest costs $31. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: For starting or modifying service, or cart repair or replacement, contact CR&R Customer Care at (951) 943-1991.
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.
EMWD customers: check your water budget
Your EMWD water budget uses 47 gallons per person per day indoors plus your irrigated area, which is listed on your bill; use over the budget is charged at higher rates. Irrigated areas may be customized through EMWD's variance process.
How: Check the estimated irrigated area listed on your EMWD bill; it can be customized through EMWD's variance process.
EMWD customers: payment assistance
EMWD offers several options that customers can use to request assistance in paying their bill.
How: Call EMWD Customer Service at 1-800-426-3693.

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartCR&R rates from the City rate sheet effective July 1, 2026. Homes with a 5-digit address are served by Waste Management instead.

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 Hemet house uses about 18.

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.
Jan 1, 2027in 70 daysEMWD's 2027 water rates start for bills dated on or after January 1 (Tier 2 rises from $4.51 to $4.88 per billing unit).
Feb 15in 115 daysLast day for a first-time homeowners' exemption claim to get the full exemption for the year.

Who serves this house

Water: Depends on your address; City of Hemet, EMWD or Lake Hemet MWD (depends on your address)
Property tax: 1.13% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (Hemet tax rate areas 006-xxx in Hemet Unified: Hemet Unified, Mt. San Jacinto College and MWD East)
Garbage: CR&R (most homes); Waste Management at 5-digit addresses; The City's trash, recycling and organic waste collection is provided by CR&R Environmental Services; residences with a 5 digit address are served by Waste Management of the Inland Empire.
Sewer: City of Hemet, Lake Hemet MWD or EMWD (depends on your water provider); The City of Hemet Water Department, Lake Hemet MWD and EMWD each provide wastewater collection within their own water service areas. The City and Lake Hemet MWD do not operate treatment facilities; they deliver wastewater to EMWD for treatment.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; Electrical power in Hemet is provided by Southern California Edison (SCE).
Gas: Southern California Gas Company; Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) supplies natural gas to both businesses and residences in Hemet.

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Your water

Source: Hemet is in EMWD's East Valley service area: west of State Street the Hemet Water Filtration Plant treats Colorado River and State Water Project water and local groundwater also supplies the area; east of State Street a system of deep groundwater wells serves the area.
Hardness: In the 2025 water quality report, hardness averaged 9.5 grains per gallon (range 5.4 to 15) from the East Valley wells and 5.4 grains per gallon (range 3.9 to 7.2) from the Hemet Water Filtration Plant.

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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: three districts serve Hemet, so it depends on your address. The page starts with Eastern Municipal Water District, the largest: placing 2020 Census block centroids in EPA's water system boundaries, about 50% of Hemet's homes are in EMWD's area only, about 34% in the City of Hemet's (the central part) and about 15% in Lake Hemet MWD's (the east); EPA lists the City system at 33,591 people and 9,658 connections, of Hemet's 89,833 residents (2020 Census). EMWD's 2026 rates: $0.870 a day in fixed charges (about $26.46 a month) and budget-based tiers modeled on EMWD's own average customer, 18 billing units a month at 100% of budget (from EMWD's 2023 rate presentation; the page starts at 18 units): Tier 1 $1.55 to 3.6 units, Tier 2 $4.51 to 18, Tier 3 $7.68 to 27, Tier 4 $14.85 above; your real budget depends on household size and irrigated area. City of Hemet water: a $29.93 monthly base rate for a 5/8-inch meter and $4.79 per 100 CF of use. Lake Hemet Municipal Water District: its July 1, 2026 Hemet/San Jacinto Valley rates, $36.30 a month for a 5/8-inch meter, $2.516 per CCF to 5 CCF, $2.722 to 13 and $4.320 above, before its power zone pumping charge ($0.15 to $1.07 per CCF by zone), which is not included.
Sewer: for EMWD homes where EMWD runs the sewer pipes, EMWD's consolidated rate schedule: rate S101 (Hemet, San Jacinto), $1.219 a day per EDU from January 1, 2026, plus the $0.156 daily sewer system capital projects charge, about $41.82 a month. City of Hemet water customers pay $53.98 a month on the City's bill (EMWD's $4.75 capital and $35.56 treatment charges plus the City's $13.67 sewer and storm drain charge). Lake Hemet MWD customers pay about $48.60 to $50.12 a month: the EMWD pass-through ($40.30 or $41.82 by improvement district) plus a $4.30 City of Hemet storm drain fee and $4.00 sewer cleaning and maintenance. Trash: the City's rate sheet effective July 1, 2026: $31.43 (64 gallon) and $36.48 (96 gallon) a month for CR&R standard curbside collection. Homes with 5-digit addresses use Waste Management at its own rates.
Property tax: Riverside County's 2026-27 rates (Resolution 2026-153) for the districts on 155 of the 175 Hemet tax rate areas (006-xxx) in the Auditor-Controller's tax rates by district: the 1% levy, Hemet Unified (0.12%), Mt. San Jacinto College (0.0031%) and MWD East (0.0085%), less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption. Hemet tax rate areas in San Jacinto Unified pay 0.17% instead of Hemet Unified's 0.12%, and a few areas add an EMWD improvement district rate. Not included because they apply only to some parcels: Community Facilities District special taxes (such as CFD 2005-1 public safety services in newer developments), streetlight maintenance district assessments and MWD/EMWD standby charges; your tax bill lists them. The starting value is the Census median market value, not an assessed value.
Electricity: SCE's Tiered Rate Plan (Schedule D) with SCE generation, rates as of 10/1/26: 30¢ per kWh up to the baseline allocation and 39¢ above. Hemet is in SCE baseline regions 10 and 16; we use region 10 (19.3 kWh a day June to September, 12.1 kWh a day the rest of the year), averaged over the year to about 441 kWh a month. Plus SCE's $24.15 monthly Base Services Charge. The page starts at 633 kWh a month, the monthly usage in SCE's rate comparison with neighboring San Jacinto Power (same baseline region 10; SCE rates as of June 1, 2026). Gas: SoCalGas's August 2026 average non-CARE bill ($68.91 at 35 therms), taken as including the $0.16-a-day customer charge. No city tax on utility bills was found, so none is applied. Insurance is the 2022 California average.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Hemet compares

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

Per year	Hemet	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.13%	1.13%	lower than 56 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$1,164	$955	higher than 82 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$502	$584	lower than 47 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$438	$438	in the middle of 101 other California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,603	$3,556	higher than 57 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	$11,105	$15,240	lower than 101 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. Water

The fact: Water here costs about $1,164 a year at typical use, higher than 82 of the other 109 California cities we cover.

Ask: "Water here costs about $1,164 a year at typical use, higher than 82 of the other 109 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

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Common questions about Hemet house costs

What is the property tax rate in Hemet?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (Hemet tax rate areas 006-xxx in Hemet Unified: Hemet Unified, Mt. San Jacinto College and MWD East)), plus flat charges on the same bill.

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

About $5,579 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption.

How much is the water bill in Hemet?

About $139 a month for water and sewer at typical use (18 units, or 13,464 gallons a month) on Eastern Municipal Water District.

How much does trash pickup cost in Hemet?

$31 to $36 a month, depending on the trash cart size (Standard curbside collection (64 gallon), Standard curbside collection (96 gallon)).

When is property tax due in Hemet?

Dec 10: First property tax installment (due Nov 1) is delinquent after Dec 10: 10% penalty.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Hemet?

Income-qualified: SCE CARE rate: Through SCE's CARE program, qualifying households receive 32.5% off their electric bills and a Base Services Charge of about $6 a month. Apply with SCE's CARE/FERA online application; no additional documentation is required.

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

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