What happens to property tax when you buy in Imperial 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 $2,394/yr (on the $309,600 county-median home).
Estimated bill by your purchase price
| Purchase price | Estimated annual tax | vs typical bill |
|---|---|---|
| $309,600 | $2,394/yr | +$0/yr |
| $387,000 | $2,993/yr | +$599/yr |
| $464,400 | $3,591/yr | +$1,197/yr |
Effective rate: 0.77% · Tier 1 · Confidence: Medium. Reassessment toward the sale price modeled from the jurisdiction's assessment basis.
How Imperial County compares before reassessment
Imperial County ranks 7 of 58 published California counties by effective property-tax rate.
The county's 0.77% effective rate is 0.07 percentage points above the California published-county average of 0.7%.
The $309,600 median home value ranks 55 of 58 and is $171,500 below the California county median of $481,100.
Similar-rate counties
- Alameda County: 0.78% effective rate; $1,090,100 median home value
- Alpine County: 0.77% effective rate; $590,200 median home value
- Riverside County: 0.78% effective rate; $557,300 median home value
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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