Inglewood, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Inglewood 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 Inglewood house

$11,061a year · $922 a month

Starts at $328,914 of value before exemptions. Typical use.

Property tax$3,650
1.134% of $328,914, less $7,000 homeowners' exemption
Flat charges on the tax bill$444
LA County Sanitation District No. 5 sewer service charge $216 · LA County Measure W Safe Clean Water tax (median single-family parcel) $91 · LA County West Vector Control assessment $10 · City street lighting and landscaping assessment (50-ft lot, lighting Zone 1 + landscaping Zone 2) (estimate) $108 · West Basin MWD water standby charge (single-family parcel under 1 acre) $19
Electricity and gas$3,856
523 kWh a month $2,637 · 35 therms $869 · city utility tax $351
Water and sewer$1,283
9 units (CCF) a month on City of Inglewood water system: water $89, sewer $9, city utility tax $10 a month
Trash$336
Standard residential service (black trash cart), $28 a month
Home insurance$1,492
Typical premium $1,492

A typical Inglewood house pays about $11,100 a year: $4,090 property tax and charges, $1,280 water and sewer, $340 trash, $3,860 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

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

Seniors 65+ and residents with disabilities: lower trash rate$25.19 instead of $28.03 a month
The City's refuse rates for December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026 list a reduced rate for senior and disabled customers of $25.19 a month, against $28.03 for standard service. The City's trash page says seniors 65 and older are eligible for a discount and residents with disabilities may be eligible.
How: Seniors 65+: call the City's Customer Service Department at (310) 412-5500. Residents with disabilities: call Public Works at (310) 412-5333.
Free bulky item pickups
Single-family and multi-family residential customers get unlimited free bulky item pickups each year, for items such as furniture, mattresses and water heaters.
How: Call Republic Services at (800) 299-4898 or Public Works at (310) 412-5333 at least 24 hours ahead.
Low-income seniors 62+: utility users tax refund (2024 program)Refund of utility users tax
Under the City's 2024 Senior Citizen Utility Tax Refund Program, Inglewood residents 62 or older with household income under $36,620 could claim a refund of the utility users taxes paid from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.
How: The 2024 claims were made by appointment with the Finance Department, (310) 412-5500, with birthdate verification, household income from all sources and utility bills showing the tax paid.
Low income: SoCalGas CARE20% off the gas bill
Customers enrolled in CARE get a 20% discount on their SoCalGas bill.
How: See SoCalGas assistance programs at socalgas.com.
Low-income seniors over 62: Safe, Clean Water parcel tax exemptionNo Safe, Clean Water tax
Owners over 62 who live in the home and head a low-income household can apply for an exemption from the Safe, Clean Water Program special parcel tax; the FY 2027-28 limit is $106,600 for a 2-person household.
How: Submit the claim form to the Safe, Clean Water Program by May 1 each year; call 833-275-7297.
Low water use: sewer charge rebate
If your actual water use is significantly less than the Sanitation Districts' estimate, you may be eligible for a rebate this year and a lower charge in future years.
How: Apply to the Sanitation Districts' Low-Water Rebate Program with your water bills from the last fiscal year (lacsd.org/lowwaterrebate, 855-240-9506).

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. These rates are for tax rate area 04569 (Inglewood Unified), where most Inglewood homes are. The street lighting and landscaping assessment depends on your lot's street frontage and zone.

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 Inglewood house uses about 9.

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 LA County (filing runs July 2 to November 30).
Dec 10in 48 daysFirst property tax installment (due Nov 1) is late 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 late after Apr 10: 10% penalty plus $10.

Who serves this house

Water: Depends on your address; City of Inglewood Water (most homes) + Golden State Water
Property tax: 1.13% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Los Angeles County
Garbage: Republic Services (Consolidated Disposal Service); Consolidated Disposal Service/Republic Services provides exclusive waste and recycling collection for Inglewood homes; each residence gets one set of trash, recycling and yard waste carts.
Sewer: City of Inglewood + LA County Sanitation District No. 5; The City's sewer charge is a fixed monthly charge on the Inglewood utility bill; County Sanitation District No. 5, which covers all or part of Inglewood, collects its wastewater service charge on the property tax roll.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; Inglewood is on SCE's list of service territory cities.
Gas: SoCalGas; Southern California Gas Company lists Inglewood among the cities it serves.
Schools: Inglewood Unified + El Camino Community College District; Inglewood Unified School District and El Camino Community College District bonds are on the 2026-27 LA County tax rate resolution.

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Your water

Source: A blend of groundwater pumped from local deep wells and Metropolitan Water District surface water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project.
Hardness: Total hardness averaged 274 mg/L in the City's groundwater and 203 mg/L in the imported surface water (2025 report).
Lead: The lead 90th-percentile result was not detected in 2023 tap sampling (30 samples), with no sites above the action level; the City reports no known lead service lines.

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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: about 75% of Inglewood's single-family parcels fall inside the City of Inglewood water system and about 20% inside Golden State Water's Southwest system (EPA water system boundaries against county parcel centroids), so the page starts on the City system: $20.74 a month for a 3/4-inch meter plus $7.54 per hcf for the first 12 hcf, $10.48 for 13 to 39 hcf and $10.53 above 39 hcf, the rates effective October 1, 2026 under Resolution No. 26-24 (adopted December 16, 2025). We treat the tier limits as monthly, as the City's notice does in its sample bill. The page starts at 9 hcf a month, the use in the City's average single-family example. Golden State Water customers can switch systems: its Metropolitan District residential schedule effective January 1, 2026 ($37.81 a month for a 5/8 x 3/4-inch meter and $5.657, $6.505 and $7.481 per Ccf for the first 9, next 12 and over 21 Ccf a month), each rate plus the $0.242 per Ccf CAP surcharge, all times 1.007 for the 0.7% CPUC reimbursement fee surcharge.
Trash and sewer: the City's standard residential refuse rate ($28.03 a month from December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026, one black trash cart with blue and green carts at no extra charge); the rate adjusts each December with the contract's CPI formula, and the Council's staff report lists one standard residential rate rather than prices by cart size. The City's sewer charge of $8.62 a month per unit from October 1, 2026 (Resolution No. 26-24's Exhibit A; the December 2025 staff report's table showed this step on January 1, 2027, but the adopted exhibit and the public notice say October 1, 2026).
Property tax: 1% plus the 2026-27 Inglewood Unified School District and El Camino Community College District bond rates from the LA County tax rate resolution and the Metropolitan Water District's 0.0085% (about 1.134% in total), less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption, applied to the value you enter. This is the rate for tax rate area 04569, the most common one for Inglewood single-family parcels (7,310 of 10,037 in the county parcel data). The starting value is the median 2026 roll value of Inglewood's 10,037 single-family parcels; long-held homes are often assessed far below market.
Flat charges on the tax bill for 2026-27: LA County Sanitation District No. 5's sewer service charge ($216 per single-family home), Measure W at 2.5 cents per square foot of impermeable area, where we use the median for Inglewood single-family parcels in the county's Safe Clean Water tax layer ($91.42), the LA County West Vector Control District assessment ($9.74 per parcel), West Basin Municipal Water District's water standby charge ($19.20 for a single-family parcel under one acre) and the City's Street Lighting Assessment District 1980-1, levied per front foot of the lot: we figure a 50-foot lot at the lighting Zone 1 rate ($1.15) and the landscaping Zone 2 rate ($1.00), the zones with the most front footage in the FY 2026-27 Engineer's Report ($107.50). Other zones run from $0.87 to $3.25 (lighting) and $0.30 to $2.25 (landscaping) per foot. Not included: the Morningside Park and In-Town maintenance districts (parts of the city only), the LA County flood control assessment, the trauma and emergency services tax and the county park district assessment (they vary by parcel).
Electricity: Inglewood is not a Clean Power Alliance member, so we use the SCE Domestic rate from the SCE/CPA joint rate comparison ($0.37392 per kWh in total, which equals its $195.56 average bill at 523 kWh) plus SCE's $24.15 monthly Base Services Charge. Gas: SoCalGas's March 2026 average non-CARE bill ($72.39 at 35 therms), taken as including the $0.16-a-day customer charge (about $4.87 a month), so $4.87 a month plus $1.929 per therm. Both are averages; real bills vary by season. The City's FY 2026-27 budget says its utility users tax is 10% on electricity, gas and water, which we add; the page also applies it to the City sewer charge (about $10 a year), which the budget does not list (the State Controller's table lists Inglewood at 8.00%, the rate the budget gives for telephone and cable). Insurance starts at the 2022 California average. The budget's revenue line is for city water; we do not know whether Golden State Water customers pay the tax, and the page applies it to both systems.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Inglewood compares

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

Per year	Inglewood	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.13%	1.13%	higher than 59 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$1,063	$955	higher than 75 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$220	$584	lower than 59 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$336	$438	lower than 95 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,856	$3,556	higher than 93 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	$11,061	$15,240	lower than 102 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 $220 a year, lower than 59 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 $220 a year, lower than 59 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 $336 a year for the standard cart, lower than 95 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 $336 a year for the standard cart, lower than 95 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 $3,856 a year, higher than 93 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 $3,856 a year for a typical house, higher than 93 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 Inglewood house costs

What is the property tax rate in Inglewood?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Los Angeles County), plus flat charges on the same bill (LA County Sanitation District No. 5 sewer service charge $216, LA County Measure W Safe Clean Water tax (median single-family parcel) $91, LA County West Vector Control assessment $10, City street lighting and landscaping assessment (50-ft lot, lighting Zone 1 + landscaping Zone 2) (estimate) $108).

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

About $6,034 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $444 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Inglewood?

About $97 a month for water and sewer at typical use (9 units, or 6,732 gallons a month) on City of Inglewood water system.

How much does trash pickup cost in Inglewood?

$28 a month for a house.

When is property tax due in Inglewood?

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

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Inglewood?

Yes. Seniors 65+ and residents with disabilities: lower trash rate: The City's refuse rates for December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026 list a reduced rate for senior and disabled customers of $25.19 a month, against $28.03 for standard service. The City's trash page says seniors 65 and older are eligible for a discount and residents with disabilities may be eligible.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Inglewood?

Low-income seniors 62+: utility users tax refund (2024 program): Under the City's 2024 Senior Citizen Utility Tax Refund Program, Inglewood residents 62 or older with household income under $36,620 could claim a refund of the utility users taxes paid from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The 2024 claims were made by appointment with the Finance Department, (310) 412-5500, with birthdate verification, household income from all sources and utility bills showing the tax paid.

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

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