Hesperia, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Hesperia 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 Hesperia house

$11,378a year · $948 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $409,000; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

A Hesperia house at the typical market value ($409,000) pays about $11,400 a year: $4,320 property tax and charges, $700 water, $460 trash, $4,400 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 low volume service (1 cart) cartUp to $36 a year
Your cart costs $38 a month; the smallest costs $35. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: To request a change in service, call Advance Disposal at (760) 244-9773.
One cart: low volume trash rate$35.35 instead of $38.33
Advance Disposal offers a low volume rate to City of Hesperia customers who need only one trash can. On the rate card effective July 1, 2026, low volume service (1 cart) is $35.35, against $38.33 for regular residential service (2 carts).
How: Contact Advance Disposal's Customer Service Department by phone (760-244-9773) or email.
Low income: SCE CARE rate32.5% off the electric bill
Through SCE's CARE program, qualifying households receive 32.5% off their electric bills; you may qualify based on household size and the total income of everyone living in the home.
How: Apply online at sce.com or call SCE's automated line at 1-800-798-5723; no additional documentation is required to apply.
Low income: 20% off the Southwest Gas bill (CARE)20% off the gas bill
Southwest Gas customers who meet the CARE program's income requirements get a 20% discount on their natural gas bill.
How: Find more information about the CARE program on Southwest Gas's customer account site, myaccount.swgas.com.

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartSingle-family homes are typically issued two 95-gallon carts; there is no separate recycling cart, because Advance Disposal hand-sorts recyclables from the trash at its recovery facility.

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. Parcels in San Bernardino County Fire's Community Facilities District No. 94-01 (City of Hesperia), mostly newer tracts, also pay a fire special tax that is not included here: $174.71 a year for most listed parcels in 2026-27. Your tax bill lists it.

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 Hesperia house uses about 13.5.

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 San Bernardino County (filing runs 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) is delinquent after Apr 10: 10% penalty.

Who serves this house

Water: Hesperia Water District; Hesperia Water District single-family residential rates, billed every two months: a $71.27 service charge for a 5/8-, 3/4- or 1-inch meter, plus $1.30 per HCF for 0-14 HCF, $2.07 for 14-35 HCF and $2.69 over 35 HCF of water used in the two months.
Property tax: 1.08% of value; 2026-27 tax year, San Bernardino County (Hesperia tax rate area 020-090)
Garbage: Advance Disposal; Advance Disposal, the City's franchise hauler, collects trash from all city residences and bills residential customers every two months.
Sewer: Septic systems for most homes; Hesperia Water District sewer for about 20% of customers; Sewer service is mainly along the Main Street corridor and in the western part of the city and serves about 20% of the Water District's customers; much of the rest of the area is undeveloped or on septic tanks.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; Southern California Edison is the power provider for the City of Hesperia.
Gas: Southwest Gas; Hesperia is in Southwest Gas's Southern California service area.
Schools: Hesperia Unified School District; The City of Hesperia's residents page lists Hesperia Unified School District among its area links.

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: Hesperia's water is pumped from 15 wells in the Alto Subarea of the Mojave River groundwater basin, which is recharged by rainfall and snowmelt from the local mountains and by imported State Water Project water.
Hardness: Total hardness averaged 69.93 ppm as calcium carbonate (range not detected to 140) in 2024/2025 testing.
Lead: Lead at household taps (2025): 90th percentile not detected, 0 of 50 sites above the action level; the District's 2025 service line inventory found no lead service lines.
Chromium-6: Hexavalent chromium averaged 3.15 ppb (range 0.15 to 10) in 2025 testing, against a 10 ppb MCL, with no violation.

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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: Hesperia Water District, which serves the city (100,744 residents in its 2025 water quality report). Single-family rates as posted on the District's rate pages, billed every two months: the $71.27 service charge for a 5/8-, 3/4- or 1-inch meter (so $35.64 a month) and $1.30, $2.07 and $2.69 per HCF for 0-14, 14-35 and over 35 HCF in two months (so tiers at 7 and 17.5 HCF a month). The District's 2026-27 budget says its last water rate increase took effect December 1, 2021 and that new water and sewer rate studies are under way, so rates may change. The page starts at 13.5 HCF a month, half the 27 HCF two-month average the District used to compare rates in its 2017 rate study. A few homes at the edges of the city may be served by other water systems.
Sewer: most of Hesperia is on septic. The District's 2026-27 budget says sewer customers are about 20% of its water customers, mainly along the Main Street corridor and in the western part of the city, so the totals start with no sewer charge. Connected homes pay $63.09 per EDU every two months (about $31.55 a month, $379 a year). Septic pumping and upkeep are not included. Trash: Advance Disposal's regular residential service (two carts), $38.33 a month on the rate card the City posts as the rates effective July 1, 2026 (the card is titled a rate proposal with COLA and tipping fee increases); Advance Disposal bills it every two months.
Property tax: tax rate area 020-090, which holds about 41% of Hesperia's homeowners' exemptions in the county's 2025 tax rate area map; Hesperia's other tax rate areas with almost all the remaining exemptions carry the same total rate. San Bernardino County's 2026-27 rates (Resolution 2026-133): the 1% general levy plus Victor Valley Community College bonds (0.0208%) and Mojave Water Agency No. 2 (0.055% on land and improvements), about 1.0758% in total, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption, applied to the value you enter; Hesperia Unified has no bond rate on the county's 2026-27 list. Not included: the Mojave Water Agency's 0.1125% levy, which applies to land value only (on a home whose land is assessed at $100,000 it adds about $113 a year), and charges that depend on the parcel: County Fire's CFD 94-01 fire special tax ($174.71 a year on 3,622 of the 3,719 parcels in its 2026-27 levy list, mostly newer tracts), the City's CFD 2005-1 Mello-Roos special tax in the Belgate area (generally west of Maple Avenue and south of Main Street), the City's newer maintenance CFDs, and delinquent utility or trash liens. Hesperia is excluded from County Fire's FP-5 special tax zone. Your tax bill lists any of these. The starting value is the Census median market value; under Prop 13 a home's assessed value can be far lower.
Electricity: Hesperia has no community choice program on SCE's list, so SCE generates and delivers the power. We use SCE's TOU-D-4 rate with SCE generation from SCE's joint rate comparison with neighboring Apple Valley Choice Energy, calculated for SCE's Baseline Region 14 ($0.37830 per kWh in total, SCE rates as of June 1, 2026; its $249.30 average bill at 659 kWh is that rate times the usage, built from a full year of climate-zone data, so a year-round average); we take Hesperia, next to Apple Valley in the High Desert, to be in the same baseline region. Plus SCE's $24.15 monthly Base Services Charge.
Gas: Southwest Gas Schedule GS-10 from the Statement of Rates effective October 1, 2026 ($5.75 a month, $2.35304 per therm up to the baseline and $2.56948 above). We take the baseline as the Victorville climate zone's daily allowances averaged over the year (6 summer months at 0.46 therms a day, 3 spring and fall months at 1.45 and 3 winter months at 2.11), about 34 therms a month; the tariff does not list which climate zone each community is in, and real bills use the seasonal allowance. The gas cost in the rate ($0.26205 per therm in October 2026) changes from month to month. The page starts at 37 therms, Southwest Gas's average Southern California non-CARE use. Insurance starts at the 2022 California average.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Hesperia compares

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

Per year	Hesperia	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.08%	1.13%	lower than 95 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$698	$955	lower than 93 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Trash	$460	$438	higher than 61 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$4,403	$3,556	higher than 105 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	$11,378	$15,240	lower than 99 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: Hesperia's property tax rate is 1.08%, lower than 95 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 Hesperia is 1.08%, lower than 95 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. Water

The fact: Water here costs about $698 a year at typical use, lower than 93 of the other 109 California cities we cover.

Ask: "Water here costs about $698 a year at typical use, lower than 93 of the other 109 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

3. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $4,403 a year, higher than 105 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 $4,403 a year for a typical house, higher than 105 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 Hesperia house costs

What is the property tax rate in Hesperia?

About 1.08% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, San Bernardino County (Hesperia tax rate area 020-090)), plus flat charges on the same bill.

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

About $5,304 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption.

How much is the water bill in Hesperia?

About $58 a month for water at typical use (13.5 units, or 10,098 gallons a month) on Hesperia Water District.

How much does trash pickup cost in Hesperia?

$35 to $38 a month, depending on the trash cart size (Low volume service (1 cart), Regular residential service (2 carts)).

When is property tax due in Hesperia?

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.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Hesperia?

Low income: SCE CARE rate: Through SCE's CARE program, qualifying households receive 32.5% off their electric bills; you may qualify based on household size and the total income of everyone living in the home. Apply online at sce.com or call SCE's automated line at 1-800-798-5723; no additional documentation is required to apply.

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