What happens to property tax when you buy in Del Norte County, California?

Why your bill can jump at purchase

California uses an acquisition-value basis (California Proposition 13 (BOE)): your assessed value is set at purchase and grows under an annual cap of 2%.

Current owners here pay a typical bill of about $2,099/yr (on the $342,000 county-median home).

Estimated bill by your purchase price

Purchase priceEstimated annual taxvs typical bill
$342,000$2,099/yr+$0/yr
$427,500$2,624/yr+$525/yr
$513,000$3,148/yr+$1,049/yr

Effective rate: 0.61% · Tier 1 · Confidence: Medium. Reassessment toward the sale price modeled from the jurisdiction's assessment basis.

How Del Norte County compares before reassessment

Del Norte County ranks 55 of 58 published California counties by effective property-tax rate.

The county's 0.61% effective rate is 0.09 percentage points below the California published-county average of 0.7%.

The $342,000 median home value ranks 47 of 58 and is $139,100 below the California county median of $481,100.

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Source, method & confidence

Data as of 2024-12-31 (data version 2024.1).

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year, table B25103; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year, table B25077; California State Board of Equalization, Proposition 13.

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