Keizer, OR · Updated Oct 2026

What a Keizer home costs each year

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 Keizer house

$9,391a year · $783 a month

Starts at $226,090 of value before exemptions. Typical use.

Property tax$3,815
1.687% of $226,090
Flat charges on the tax bill$48
Street lighting district (city average; varies by subdivision) $48
Electricity and gas$3,117
784 kWh a month $2,078 · 53 therms $1,039
Water and sewer$1,104
6 units (CCF) a month on City of Keizer: water $18, sewer $50, stormwater ($16.57 per esu every two months, $22.37 from january 2027; a home is 1 esu) $8, police services fee (single-family, from september 1, 2026; $14.34 from january 1, 2027) $11, park services fee (single-family) $5 a month
Trash$421
35-gallon cart, $35 a month
Home insurance$886
Typical premium $886

A typical Keizer house costs about $9,400 a year: $3,860 property tax and charges, $1,100 water and sewer, $420 trash, $3,120 electricity and gas, $890 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 20-gallon cart cartUp to $39 a year
Your cart costs $35 a month; the smallest costs $32. Worth it if you rarely fill it.
How: Call your garbage company: Valley Recycling at 503-585-4300 or Loren's Sanitation at 503-393-2262.
Pay the property tax in full by the November due date3% off
Paying the full amount on or before November 15 takes 3% off the current year's tax; paying two-thirds takes 2% off. The one-third payment gets no discount.
How: Pay Marion County by mail (postmarked on or before the due date), online or by phone, or in person at the Tax Collection office.
Seniors 62+ and disabled homeowners: property tax deferral
Disabled or senior homeowners can borrow from the State of Oregon to pay their county property taxes. For the senior deferral you must be at least 62 by April 15 of the year you apply, and you must have owned and lived in the home for at least five years before April 15 of that year.
How: File the application at the county assessor's office between January 1 and April 15, or late from April 16 to December 1 with a fee.
Disabled veterans and surviving spouses: property tax exemption
Veterans with a disability rating of at least 40%, or the surviving spouse or registered domestic partner of a veteran, may be entitled to a reduction of the assessed value of their home. You must own and live on the property.
How: File the claim with the Marion County Assessor on or before April 1 (503-588-5144).
Seniors 75+ and very low-income households: half-price police fee and lower park fee
For a single-family home, the Police Services Fee is $5.31 instead of $10.62 and the Park Services Fee is $1.26 instead of $4.50 for a responsible party over 75, or whose household income is at or below 30% of the Salem/Keizer area median income. Low-income applicants reapply every year.
How: Return the Police and Parks Services Fees discount application to the City Services Billing Department, PO Box 21000, Keizer, OR 97307 (503-390-8280).
Low-income seniors 60+ and households with a disabled member: sewer and garbage rate help20% off garbage
Keizer's Sewer & Garbage Rate Assistance Program is for households with income at or below 30% of the Salem area median income ($36,811 for one person); the garbage discount is 20% on the residential cart service package. Seniors must also pay for housing without housing assistance payments. Households with a disabled member must live in a single-family home, be responsible for the sewer and garbage bills, not already get the senior sewer discount, and send proof of the disability and income.
How: Return the Senior Citizens or Disabled Member application to Utility Billing, PO Box 21000, Keizer, OR 97307 (503-390-8280).
Use less water in winter to lower a year of sewer bills
Your sewer volume is set once a year from your average water use on two meter readings taken on or after October 1, and you are billed that same sewer volume charge every two months, even if your water use is different.
How: Conserve water from October 1 through mid-March; the City says this may even reduce your bills for the upcoming year.
Had a leak? Ask about a bill adjustment
After a leak on your side of the meter is repaired, the City verifies the meter and reviews your account history to see if an adjustment can be made. Keep your repair receipts.
How: Call Utility Billing at 503-390-8280 once the repair is made.
PGE Income-Qualified Bill Discount15% to 80% off
Based on household size and income, PGE customers could get 15% to 80% off. No financial documents are required.
How: Apply with PGE or call 503-228-6322.
NW Natural bill discount15% to 85% off
In Oregon, households with income below 60% of the state median income can get 15% to 85% off their monthly gas bills. No proof of income is required to apply.
How: Apply online with NW Natural (nwnatural.com/billdiscount).

Adjust to match your bills

What you knowTrash cartValley Recycling & Disposal's Keizer package rates: weekly garbage and organics, recycling every other week, priced by the garbage cart size. These are Valley Recycling's prices only; Loren's Sanitation publishes no rates and may charge differently.

Value before exemptionsOregon taxes the assessed value on your statement, which is usually well below what the house would sell for. Enter the assessed value from your 2026-27 tax statement.

Home insurance, a yearFrom your policy. We start at $886, Oregon statewide average for 2023, NAIC data in the Oregon Insurance Commissioner's January 2025 legislative briefing.

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 Keizer house uses about 6.

Electricity, kWh a month

On your Portland General Electric (PGE) bill. An electric car adds about 300 kWh.

Gas, therms a month (yearly average)

Money dates

Nov 15in 22 daysProperty tax due: pay in full on or before November 15 for a 3% discount, or two-thirds for 2% off; the one-third payment has no discount
Feb 15in 114 daysSecond one-third property tax payment due
Apr 1Disabled veteran / surviving spouse exemption claims due to the Assessor
Apr 15Senior & disabled property tax deferral applications due to the county assessor (late filing from April 16 to December 1 with a fee)

Who serves this house

Water: City of Keizer; City of Keizer, billed every two months: $14.40 for a 5/8" or 3/4" meter plus $1.86 per ccf (residential) (effective January 2026). It rises to $15.83 and $2.05 per ccf in January 2027, not included here. The rates include a 5% license fee.
Property tax: 1.69% of value; 2026-27 tax year, Marion County code area 24200 (City of Keizer, Keizer Fire District)
Garbage: Valley Recycling & Disposal or Loren's Sanitation; The City's map shows which of the two companies serves each address
Sewer: City of Keizer; On the same City services bill as water and stormwater, billed every two months
Electricity: Portland General Electric (PGE); Salem Electric serves other parts of Keizer; the City's map shows which one serves your address
Gas: NW Natural; Rate Schedule 2, residential
Schools: Salem-Keizer School District; On the property tax bill with Willamette Regional ESD and Chemeketa Community College

Pay or manage your bills

Your water

Source: The Troutdale Aquifer beneath the city, through 15 deep wells
Hardness: 107 parts per million, about 6 grains per gallon
Nitrate: Highest 2025 result 5.47 ppm, against a limit (MCL) of 10 ppm
Lead: Not detected in the 2023 lead tests (action level 15 ppb); lead and copper are tested every 3 years

How these numbers are made

Property tax: the 2026-27 Marion County billing rates for code area 24200 (City of Keizer, Keizer Fire District), $16.8747 per $1,000 of assessed value. It holds $3.13 billion of Keizer's $3.54 billion of assessed value and about 8,600 of Keizer's roughly 9,900 property class 101 (improved residential) tax lots in the county's parcel data. Homes in code area 24210, in Marion County Fire District #1 instead of the Keizer Fire District, pay $17.2811. Oregon has no homestead exemption.
The starting assessed value ($226,090) is the median of the property class 101 tax lots in code area 24200 in Marion County's open parcel data (October 2026). Spot checks against the Assessor's property records show that dataset still carries the 2025 roll value; most unchanged homes' 2026-27 assessed value is up to 3% higher. Your statement's assessed value is the number to use. Measure 5 compression is not modeled; at these rates it would only apply to a home assessed near its full market value.
Street lighting: Keizer has about 200 street lighting districts whose assessments are added to the tax bills of the lots in each district. We add the City-wide average, the 2026-27 adopted budget's $471,500 of lighting district assessments divided by Keizer's 9,924 property class 101 tax lots ($47.51 a year). The real amount depends on your subdivision (in a sample of 60 Keizer homes' 2026-27 bills it ranged from none to about $139) and is on your tax statement.
Water, sewer and fees: City of Keizer rates from January 2026, billed every two months and shown here per month: water $14.40 / 2 for a 5/8" or 3/4" meter plus $1.86 per ccf; sewer $37.30 / 2 plus the $6.25 sewer administration fee / 2, plus $4.75 per ccf of sewer volume; stormwater $16.57 / 2 per ESU (a home is one ESU); the $10.62 Police Services Fee (from September 1, 2026); and the $4.50 Park Services Fee. The fee schedule lists higher rates from January 2027 (water $15.83 every two months plus $2.05 per ccf, stormwater $22.37 every two months, police $14.34 a month); they are not included. Keizer\'s posted fee schedule still labels the sewer column January 2025, but its 2025-26 schedule lists these same sewer rates as effective January 2026. Keizer bills sewer on a sewer volume set each year from your winter water use; the calculator uses this month\'s use. The page starts at 6 ccf a month, the use in the City budget\'s residential cost-per-month example (water $17.48 a month at 6 ccf before the 5% license fee, which matches $7.20 + 6 x $1.86 = $18.36 with it).
Garbage: Valley Recycling & Disposal's published Keizer rates (updated in January 2026, after the City Council approved a hauler rate increase for January 1, 2026): 20 gallon $31.84, 35 gallon $35.09, 65 gallon $47.00 and 95 gallon $54.68 a month, including weekly organics and every-other-week recycling. Loren's Sanitation serves the other part of Keizer (on the City's map, about half of the homes each) and publishes no rate table; both haulers serve under the City's franchise.
Electricity: PGE Schedule 7 effective July 8, 2026 (year-round), the effective per-kWh rate plus the 1.5% public purpose charge, times 1.015 for the 1.5% City franchise line (Keizer's fee is 5% of gross revenue; OAR 860-022-0040 puts the first 3.5% in rates). On the City's map about 7,300 of Keizer's homes are in PGE's area and about 2,800, mostly in south Keizer, in Salem Electric's, which has its own rates. Gas: NW Natural Schedule 2 effective October 31, 2025, times 1.02 for the 2% franchise line above the 3% in rates; new rates take effect October 31, 2026 and are not included. Insurance: the 2023 Oregon statewide average.
Electricity derivation: fixed = ((13.00 basic + 2.76 Schedule 118) x 1.015 public purpose charge + 1.24 low-income charge, which the charge does not apply to) x 1.015 franchise line = $17.4949; per-kWh = ((19.29 - 1.004) x 1.015 + 1.004) / 100 x 1.015 = $0.19857754 (1.004 cents is the Schedule 115 component, excluded from the charge); the over-2,000 kWh rate uses 20.40 the same way.
Gas franchise line: the 1.02 multiplier is a modelling assumption that the 5% fee is exacted only on gas revenue and the excess over 3% is billed separately; OAR 860-022-0040 caps aggregate city exactions, so the real line may differ.']Gas figures add 2% on top of the NW Natural schedule rates to estimate the separate franchise-excess line; that is a modelling assumption, not a number NW Natural publishes.
Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

Sources

How Keizer compares

A typical Keizer house against the 28 Oregon cities we cover, using the same default numbers as the total above.

Per year	Keizer	Median	Where it falls
Property tax rate	1.69%	1.90%	lower than 20 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover
Water	$220	$609	lower than 27 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover
Sewer and utility-bill fees	$884	$1,050	lower than 21 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover
Trash	$421	$454	lower than 13 of the other 22 Oregon cities we cover
Electricity and gas	$3,117	$2,868	higher than 18 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover
Home insurance	$886	$886	in the middle of 27 other Oregon cities we cover
Total	$9,391	$10,340	lower than 18 of the other 27 Oregon 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. Water

The fact: Water here costs about $220 a year at typical use, lower than 27 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover.

Ask: "Water here costs about $220 a year at typical use, lower than 27 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

2. Sewer and utility-bill fees

The fact: Sewer and flat utility-bill charges here come to about $884 a year, lower than 21 of the other 27 Oregon 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 $884 a year, lower than 21 of the other 27 Oregon cities we cover. What drives that cost, and would you change anything?"

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Common questions about Keizer house costs

What is the property tax rate in Keizer?

About 1.69% of the value before exemptions a year (2026-27 tax year, Marion County code area 24200 (City of Keizer, Keizer Fire District)), plus flat charges on the same bill (Street lighting district (city average; varies by subdivision) $48).

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

About $8,485 a year on $500,000 of the value before exemptions, including $48 of flat charges.

How much is the water bill in Keizer?

About $92 a month for water and sewer at typical use (6 units, or 4,488 gallons a month) on City of Keizer.

How much does trash pickup cost in Keizer?

$32 to $55 a month, depending on the trash cart size (20-gallon cart, 35-gallon cart, 65-gallon cart, 95-gallon cart).

When is property tax due in Keizer?

Nov 15: Property tax due: pay in full on or before November 15 for a 3% discount, or two-thirds for 2% off; the one-third payment has no discount Feb 15: Second one-third property tax payment due Apr 15: Senior & disabled property tax deferral applications due to the county assessor (late filing from April 16 to December 1 with a fee)

Can seniors lower their property tax or bills in Keizer?

Yes. Seniors 62+ and disabled homeowners: property tax deferral: Disabled or senior homeowners can borrow from the State of Oregon to pay their county property taxes. For the senior deferral you must be at least 62 by April 15 of the year you apply, and you must have owned and lived in the home for at least five years before April 15 of that year.

Where can I get help paying utility bills in Keizer?

Seniors 75+ and very low-income households: half-price police fee and lower park fee: For a single-family home, the Police Services Fee is $5.31 instead of $10.62 and the Park Services Fee is $1.26 instead of $4.50 for a responsible party over 75, or whose household income is at or below 30% of the Salem/Keizer area median income. Low-income applicants reapply every year. Return the Police and Parks Services Fees discount application to the City Services Billing Department, PO Box 21000, Keizer, OR 97307 (503-390-8280).

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