Rialto, CA · Updated Oct 2026

What a Rialto 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 Rialto house

$13,244a year · $1,104 a month

Starts at the typical market value, $487,900; your assessed value is often lower. Typical use.

A Rialto house at the typical market value ($487,900) pays about $13,200 a year: $5,770 property tax and charges, $1,810 water and sewer, $430 trash, $3,740 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 40-gallon barrel service cartUp to $21 a year
Your cart costs $36 a month; the smallest costs $34. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: Call your garbage hauler.
Seniors 65+ and low income: 20% off sewer20% off the sewer flat rate
Customers aged 65 and over, or households with incomes at or below the Low-Income Limits, may qualify for a 20% discount on the Total Sewer Flat Rate.
How: Call (909) 820-2661 for more information and how to apply.
Seniors 65+ and low income: utility users' tax exemptionNo 8% tax on exempt accounts
Rialto's 8% utility users' tax has an exemption application for residents 65 or older and an income-based one for households under set income limits. For 2026 the City Council suspended the tax on residential accounts for all utilities, from January 1 through December 31, 2026.
How: Send the senior application with proof of age, proof of residency and copies of all current utility bills to uut@rialtoca.gov or the Finance Department, 150 S. Palm Ave.; questions: 909-820-2661.
Two free bulky item pickups a year
Single-family residential solid waste customers are eligible for up to two free bulky item pick-ups per calendar year; vehicle parts, construction materials and hazardous waste are not picked up.
How: Call Burrtec Waste Industries at 909-877-1596 to schedule a pick-up.
Water rebates (City of Rialto water)
The City's rebate program covers high-efficiency toilets (limit 2 per household), a high-efficiency washing machine, a weather-based smart irrigation timer, high-efficiency or shut-off nozzles and turf replacement (pre-inspection required), first come, first served.
How: Fill out the City's Water Rebate Application; questions: Utilities Division, 909-820-2525, ext. 2062.
Community Clean-Up Days
Rialto's Community Clean-Up Days run 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.: October 24, 2026, then January 23, April 10, July 10 and October 23, 2027. Residents can bring trash, bulky items and green waste to 150 S. Palm Ave. for free disposal.
How: Bring the items to 150 S. Palm Ave.; questions: 909-820-2602.

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartResidential barrel service covers trash, recycling and organics; extra barrels cost more each month.

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. Some neighborhoods pay more on the tax bill: about 8,000 parcels in Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 pay $58.00 a year per benefit unit for 2026-27, newer tracts are in Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2, and about 1,400 homes in the bond-funded Mello-Roos districts (CFDs 2006-1, 2019-2, 2020-1 and 2024-1) pay about $1,750 to $4,570 a year in special taxes. Your tax bill lists them.

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 Rialto house uses about 15.

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.
Dec 31, 2026in 69 daysLast day of Rialto's 2026 suspension of the utility users' tax on residential accounts (all utilities, January 1 to December 31, 2026).
Jan 1, 2027in 70 daysNext scheduled City of Rialto rate step: the 3/4-inch water minimum charge goes from $37.30 to $40.29 a month and the residential sewer charge from $69.16 to $71.24.

Who serves this house

Water: Depends on your address; Rialto Water Services or West Valley Water District
Property tax: 1.19% of value; 2026-27 tax year, San Bernardino County (Rialto tax rate area 006-000)
Garbage: Burrtec Waste Industries; Burrtec is the City's listed trash service provider; trash, recycling and organics barrel service is billed on the annual San Bernardino County property tax assessment.
Sewer: Rialto Water Services; Rialto Water Services is the City's listed water and sewer provider; residents within West Valley Water District pay sewer only to Rialto Water Services.
Electricity: Southern California Edison; Southern California Edison is the City's listed electric provider.
Gas: SoCalGas; Southern California Gas Company is the City's listed gas provider.

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: In 2025, 75% of Rialto's potable drinking water came from its groundwater basins, 15% from the Baseline Feeder and 10% was surface water.
Hardness: Hardness in City of Rialto water averaged 160 mg/L (range 130 to 220) in the 2025 report.
Perchlorate: Two City wells have wellhead treatment that removes perchlorate to a non-detection level; other wells affected by perchlorate have been out of service since the detection.
Lead: A 2024 lead service line inventory found the service lines were lead free.

Rialto has three water providers. West Valley Water District serves about as many Rialto homes as the City (shown as another option here) and Fontana Water Company a small area; check the provider on your water bill.

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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: Rialto has three water providers. By our count of homes with a homeowners' exemption inside each system's boundary on the EPA service-area map, the City of Rialto (Rialto Water Services, operated by Veolia) serves about 49%, West Valley Water District about 47% and Fontana Water Company about 3%, so the City is the default. City of Rialto (rates effective March 1, 2026, adopted January 27, 2026): $37.30 a month for a 3/4-inch or smaller meter plus $2.11, $2.37 and $3.45 per ccf for 0-9, 10-30 and 31+ units a month. The page starts at 15 ccf a month, the average single-family use in the City's October 2025 rate study. West Valley Water District (January 1, 2026): $23.82 a month for a 5/8- or 3/4-inch meter plus $2.33, $2.54 and $2.73 per unit for 1-10, 11-30 and over 30 units. Fontana Water Company's small area is not modeled here.
Sewer: Rialto Water Services' flat residential charge of $69.16 a month from March 1, 2026 (scheduled $71.24 from January 1, 2027); homes on West Valley Water District water pay the same City sewer charge. Trash: Burrtec's 2026/27 tax-roll rates of $35.91 a month for the 60-gallon barrel ($430.92 a year on the 2026 tax roll list) and $34.16 for the 40-gallon barrel, collected yearly on the property tax bill.
Property tax: tax rate area 006-000 (Rialto Unified, San Bernardino Community College and San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District), the area with the most parcels with a homeowners' exemption in the county parcel map (about 36% of them); areas with the same districts and the same total rate hold about 88%. San Bernardino County's 2026-27 rates (Attachment A): about 1.1944% in total, less the $7,000 homeowners' exemption, applied to the value you enter. A few areas are in Fontana Unified or Colton Joint Unified instead. The starting value is the Census median market value; under Prop 13 a home's assessed value can be far lower.
Fixed charges: Street Light Maintenance District No. 1, levied on every residential lot in the City ($2.05 minimum land benefit plus $24.03 per developed single-family unit for 2026-27, $26.08 a year), plus the trash charge shown under Trash. Not included because they depend on the neighborhood: Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 (8,046 assessed parcels, $58.00 per benefit unit), Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2 in newer tracts, and the Mello-Roos CFDs (2006-1, 2016-1, 2019-2, 2020-1, 2024-1 and others). The City set its 2026/27 PERS retirement tax rate at $0.
Electricity: SCE's standard Domestic rate with SCE generation from SCE's joint rate comparison with neighboring Pomona Choice Energy ($0.37392 per kWh in total, SCE rates as of June 1, 2026; its $195.56 average bill at 523 kWh is that rate times the usage, so a year-round average), plus SCE's $24.15 monthly Base Services Charge. Gas: SoCalGas's August 2026 average non-CARE bill ($68.91 at 35 therms), taken as including the $0.16-a-day customer charge (about $4.87 a month), so $4.87 a month plus $1.830 per therm. Rialto's 8% utility users' tax is added to electricity, gas, water and sewer; the City suspended it for residential accounts from January 1 through December 31, 2026, so 2026 bills are about 8% lower than shown. Insurance starts at the 2022 California average.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Rialto compares

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

Per year	Rialto	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.19%	1.13%	higher than 81 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Water	$846	$955	lower than 74 of the other 109 California cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$964	$584	higher than 66 of the other 76 California cities we cover
Trash	$431	$438	lower than 54 of the other 101 California cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,741	$3,556	higher than 85 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	$13,244	$15,240	lower than 80 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 $964 a year, higher than 66 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 $964 a year, higher than 66 of the other 76 California cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

2. Electricity and gas

The fact: Electricity and gas for a typical house here cost about $3,741 a year, higher than 85 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 $3,741 a year for a typical house, higher than 85 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 Rialto house costs

What is the property tax rate in Rialto?

About 1.19% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, San Bernardino County (Rialto tax rate area 006-000)), plus flat charges on the same bill (Street Light Maintenance District No. 1 $26).

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

About $5,915 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions with the homeowners' exemption, including $26 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Rialto?

About $140 a month for water and sewer at typical use (15 units, or 11,220 gallons a month) on City of Rialto (Rialto Water Services).

How much does trash pickup cost in Rialto?

$34 to $36 a month, depending on the trash cart size (40-gallon barrel service, 60-gallon barrel service).

When is property tax due in Rialto?

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) becomes delinquent on Apr 10; taxes not paid by the delinquent date get a 10% penalty.

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Rialto?

Yes. Seniors 65+ and low income: 20% off sewer: Customers aged 65 and over, or households with incomes at or below the Low-Income Limits, may qualify for a 20% discount on the Total Sewer Flat Rate.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Rialto?

Seniors 65+ and low income: 20% off sewer: Customers aged 65 and over, or households with incomes at or below the Low-Income Limits, may qualify for a 20% discount on the Total Sewer Flat Rate. Call (909) 820-2661 for more information and how to apply.

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