Perris, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Perris 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 Perris house

$12,135a year · $1,011 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $474,700; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

Property tax$5,299
1.133% of $474,700, less $7,000 homeowners' exemption
Flat charges on the tax bill$4
Flood control NPDES stormwater assessment (Santa Ana watershed) $4
Electricity and gas$3,603
633 kWh a month $2,776 · 35 therms $827
Water and sewer$1,737
18 units (CCF) a month on Eastern Municipal Water District: water $97, sewer $48 a month
TrashNot included
Not counted: CR&R bills trash separately, so it is not in this total.
Home insurance$1,492
Typical premium $1,492

A Perris house at the typical market value ($474,700) pays about $12,100 a year: $5,300 property tax and charges, $1,740 water and sewer, $3,600 electricity and gas, $1,490 home insurance; trash is billed separately. 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:

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.
Free bulky item pickup
CR&R offers free bulky item pick up service.
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 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. Many Perris homes in newer tracts also pay Mello-Roos (CFD) special taxes, lighting/landscape or other district charges on the same bill, and some pay EMWD improvement district rates; none of these is included in the total, so check your own 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 Perris 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's rates for accounts on water budgets: 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 (Perris tax rate areas 008-xxx in Perris Elementary, Perris Union High, Mt. San Jacinto College and MWD East)
Garbage: CR&R Waste Services; Trash, recycling and green waste service is provided by CR&R Waste Services.
Sewer: Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD); EMWD's Perris Valley Area sewer rate S501 covers sewer service through its Improvement District E facilities.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; The City of Perris lists Southern California Edison as the electricity provider.
Gas: SoCalGas; SoCalGas serves natural gas in the City of Perris.

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Your water

Source: EMWD receives imported water from the State Water Project.
Local wells: Four North Perris Wells serve the northeast area of Perris.
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 Perris (it took over the City's water and sewer systems on Oct 15, 2024). 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): 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. Customers who had City of Perris service before the transfer keep the City's rates, billed by EMWD: for example in the South Perris area a $0.5654 a day service charge and $3.59 (Tier 1) / $6.86 (Tier 2) per unit in 2026, in North Perris $3.33 per unit non-tiered; we did not model these.
Sewer: EMWD's Perris Valley Area rate S501, $1.414 a day per EDU in 2026, plus the $0.156 daily capital projects charge, about $47.76 a month for a 3-4 person household. Other Perris areas pay different EMWD rates: S502 and S504 are $1.364 a day (S502, where the City provided collection before the transfer, adds a $0.2747 daily collection charge). Trash: CR&R provides service and we could not confirm a current published residential rate, so trash is not in the total and the total is understated by the CR&R bill. A search result for a City of Perris rate document listed $35.70 a month for a 100-gallon cart effective July 1, 2023 (older schedules $31.80 to $31.87); we could not open the document (403), so none of these is used.
Property tax: Riverside County's 2026-27 rates (Resolution 2026-153, adopted August 25, 2026) for Perris tax rate areas 008-xxx in Perris Elementary School District: the 1% levy, Perris Elementary (0.07431%), Perris Union High (0.04712%), Mt. San Jacinto College (0.0031%) and MWD East (0.0085%), about 1.1163% in total, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption. Part of Perris is in Val Verde Unified (different school rates) and some areas add EMWD improvement district U-9 (0.0175%). The starting value is the Census median market value, not an assessed value. Fixed charge: the Riverside County Flood Control NPDES stormwater assessment for the Santa Ana watershed, $3.75 per benefit assessment unit for FY 2026-27 (one unit for a single-family home on a 7,200 square foot lot). Not included: Mello-Roos and other district charges that depend on the parcel.
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. Perris 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 usage in SCE's rate comparison for the same baseline region 10. 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 Perris compares

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

Per year	Perris	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.13%	1.13%	higher than 57 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	$573	$584	lower than 39 of the other 76 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	$12,135	$15,240	lower than 90 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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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.

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Common questions about Perris house costs

What is the property tax rate in Perris?

About 1.13% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Riverside County (Perris tax rate areas 008-xxx in Perris Elementary, 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 Perris?

About $5,590 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 Perris?

About $145 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 Perris?

Not counted: CR&R bills trash separately, so it is not in this total.

When is property tax due in Perris?

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 is due Feb 1 and becomes delinquent April 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 10% penalty.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Perris?

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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