Menifee, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Menifee 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 Menifee house

$13,259a year · $1,105 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $537,300; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

A Menifee house at the typical market value ($537,300) pays about $13,300 a year: $6,020 property tax and charges, $1,680 water and sewer, $470 trash, $3,600 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:

Switch to the low volume weekly trash, recycling and organics service (64 gallon) cartUp to $45 a year
Your cart costs $39 a month; the smallest costs $35. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: Contact Waste Management to request new services at home.wm.com/menifee or call (800) 423-9986.
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.
Seniors 60+: smaller trash cart, 9% off9% off the monthly trash bill
Menifee seniors age 60 plus who are also head of household (name on the bill) can reduce their cart size and save 9% off the monthly bill.
How: Call Waste Management Customer Service at 800-423-9986.
Seniors 60+: one-time $50 trash bill credit$50 one-time credit
Menifee seniors age 60 plus may apply for a one-time $50 bill credit on their Waste Management account while program funding remains available.
How: Call the City's Community Services Department at 951-723-3880.
Four free bulky item pickups a year
Residents receive 4 free pickups per year of up to 6 items (bulky items and white goods combined), plus 3 free electronic waste pickups as part of bulky item pickup.
How: Schedule with Waste Management at home.wm.com/menifee or (800) 423-9986.
Learn about your City special district charges
City of Menifee special districts (Community Facilities Districts, Community Service Areas and Lighting, Landscape and Maintenance Districts) are funded through charges collected on County of Riverside property tax bills.
How: Visit the STAX Property Tax Portal linked from the City's Special Districts page to learn more about City special assessments.
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 cartWM's City of Menifee rates effective July 1, 2026 (approved by the City Council on May 20, 2026). Standard service is a 95-gallon trash cart with weekly recycling and organics; the 64-gallon Low Volume service costs less.

Value before exemptionsAbout 1 in 4 Menifee homes also pay City of Menifee Mello-Roos (CFD) special taxes: for 2026-27 the City's maintenance CFDs are levied on about 9,100 parcels in residential tracts, averaging about $260 to $1,370 a year depending on the tract, and the newest tracts (built since about 2019) also pay a City facilities CFD averaging about $2,500 to $3,500 a year (up to about $4,400). Many homes in tracts built since the 1990s also pay school district or EMWD CFD special taxes, and many pay street light, landscape or park charges (CSA 84, CSA 145, LMD 89-1-C); homes in tracts without a CFD pay none. None of these is included in the total: look up yours on the City's STAX property tax portal or your tax bill. Under 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 Menifee 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 is due Nov 1 and becomes delinquent Dec 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 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: Eastern Municipal Water District; EMWD serves Menifee (Sun City). It bills a daily service charge and a daily supply and reliability capital projects charge, plus four budget-based tiers per billing unit (748 gallons): Tier 1 for the first 20 percent of your monthly water budget, Tier 2 for the rest of the budget, and Tiers 3 and 4 for use over the budget.
Property tax: 1.13% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (Menifee tax rate areas 026-xxx in Menifee Union School District: Menifee Union, Perris Union High, Mt. San Jacinto College and MWD East)
Garbage: Waste Management of the Inland Empire (WM); Menifee's franchise hauler is Waste Management of the Inland Empire; contact WM for new service, bulky item pickups and billing questions.
Sewer: Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD); EMWD provides wastewater service in Menifee; its Sun City Area sewer rate applies within the Menifee Valley Sewer Service Area No. 1.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; SCE provides electricity to the City of Menifee.
Gas: SoCalGas; SoCalGas supplies natural gas to the City of Menifee.

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: Menifee is in EMWD's Mills service area, typically served by the Mills Filtration Plant (State Water Project water) and occasionally by the Skinner plant; Menifee also receives blended water from EMWD's Desalination Complex, which treats salty groundwater by reverse osmosis.
Hardness: In the 2025 water quality report, hardness averaged 5.1 grains per gallon (range 4.8 to 5.5) from the Mills Filtration Plant and 6.3 (range 4.1 to 8.9) from the Desalination Complex.
Lead: Lead at household taps across EMWD: the 90th percentile of 50 samples was 2.8 ppb against an action level of 15; one sample exceeded the action level.

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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: Eastern Municipal Water District serves almost all of Menifee (about 99% of homes by 2020 Census blocks in EPA's water system map). 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.
Sewer: EMWD's Sun City Area rate S301 (Menifee Valley Sewer Service Area No. 1), $1.257 a day per EDU from January 1, 2026, plus the $0.156 daily sewer system capital projects charge, about $42.98 a month for a 3-4 person household; 1-2 person households pay 65% and 5-6 person households 135% of the sewer rate. Areas served through EMWD improvement districts U-4, U-6, U-15 and U-35 (parts of Sun City) pay rate S302, $1.207 a day. Trash: WM's City of Menifee rates effective July 1, 2026, approved by the City Council on May 20, 2026: $39.09 a month for standard 95-gallon three-cart service, $35.31 for the 64-gallon Low Volume service.
Property tax: Riverside County's 2026-27 rates (Resolution 2026-153, adopted August 25, 2026) for Menifee's tax rate areas (026-xxx) in Menifee Union School District, where about 84% of Menifee's homes are (2020 Census blocks in Census school district boundaries): the 1% levy, Menifee Union (0.075%), Perris Union High (0.04712%), Mt. San Jacinto College (0.0031%) and MWD East (0.0085%), about 1.134% in total, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption. Homes in Romoland School District (about 16%, north Menifee) pay no elementary district bond rate; some areas add EMWD improvement district rates (U-35 and U-36 0.0043% each; U-4 0.02438% and U-6 0.0225% in parts of Sun City). The starting value is the Census median market value, not an assessed value. Fixed charges: the Riverside County Flood Control NPDES stormwater assessment for the Santa Ana watershed benefit area, which includes Menifee on the District's map, $3.75 per benefit assessment unit for FY 2026-27 (one unit for a single-family home on a 7,200 square foot lot; larger lots pay $22.50 an acre).
Not included because they depend on the parcel: Mello-Roos CFDs (below); County Service Area charges on many parcels in 2026-27 (CSA 84 street lights, Sun City core and east Menifee, 15,911 parcels at $10.36 to $155; CSA 145 street lights, landscaping and parks, Sun City and west Menifee, 7,743 parcels at $26.78 to $828.62; CSA 86 Quail Valley, 3,846 parcels at $80 to $121.17); Landscape and Lighting Maintenance District 89-1-C (8,701 parcels, about $920,600 in all); and MWD/EMWD standby charges. Your tax bill lists them.
Mello-Roos: the City's 2026-27 fixed charge summaries list maintenance CFD levies (CFD 2012-1 Audie Murphy Ranch, 2012-2 Hidden Hills, 2015-2 and 2017-1 zones) on about 9,100 parcels in residential tracts (averages by tract about $260 to $1,370 a year; Audie Murphy Ranch's 2,356 parcels about $1,110), and bonded facilities CFDs for the newest tracts (for example CFD 2020-1 McCall Mesa, 258 parcels, about $3,070 each; CFD 2022-1 Quartz Ranch, 379 parcels, about $3,360; CFD 2023-1 Rockport, 305 parcels, about $3,390), which come on top of that tract's maintenance CFD. Against about 33,800 single-family homes in Menifee (ACS 2020-2024), that is about 1 in 4. School district (Menifee Union, Perris Union High, Romoland) and EMWD CFDs in many tracts since the 1990s are not counted here.
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. Menifee is in SCE baseline 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 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 Menifee compares

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

Per year	Menifee	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.13%	1.13%	higher than 58 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	$516	$584	lower than 45 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$469	$438	higher than 66 of the other 101 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	$13,259	$15,240	lower than 79 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.

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

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Common questions about Menifee house costs

What is the property tax rate in Menifee?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (Menifee tax rate areas 026-xxx in Menifee Union School District: Menifee Union, Perris Union High, Mt. San Jacinto College and MWD East)), plus flat charges on the same bill (Flood control NPDES stormwater assessment (Santa Ana watershed) $4).

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

About $5,593 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $4 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Menifee?

About $140 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 Menifee?

$35 to $39 a month, depending on the trash cart size (Low Volume weekly trash, recycling and organics service (64 gallon), Residential weekly trash, recycling and organics service (95 gallon)).

When is property tax due in Menifee?

Dec 10: First property tax installment is due Nov 1 and becomes delinquent Dec 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 10% penalty. Apr 10: Second property tax installment (due Feb 1) is delinquent after Apr 10: 10% penalty.

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Menifee?

Yes. Seniors 60+: smaller trash cart, 9% off: Menifee seniors age 60 plus who are also head of household (name on the bill) can reduce their cart size and save 9% off the monthly bill.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Menifee?

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.

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