What happens to property tax when you buy in Mono 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 $4,177/yr (on the $639,400 county-median home).
Estimated bill by your purchase price
| Purchase price | Estimated annual tax | vs typical bill |
|---|---|---|
| $639,400 | $4,177/yr | +$0/yr |
| $799,250 | $5,222/yr | +$1,045/yr |
| $959,100 | $6,266/yr | +$2,089/yr |
Effective rate: 0.65% · Tier 1 · Confidence: Medium. Reassessment toward the sale price modeled from the jurisdiction's assessment basis.
How Mono County compares before reassessment
Mono County ranks 46 of 58 published California counties by effective property-tax rate.
The county's 0.65% effective rate is 0.05 percentage points below the California published-county average of 0.7%.
The $639,400 median home value ranks 20 of 58 and is $158,300 above the California county median of $481,100.
Similar-rate counties
- Orange County: 0.66% effective rate; $962,600 median home value
- Tuolumne County: 0.66% effective rate; $433,200 median home value
- Santa Barbara County: 0.65% effective rate; $790,700 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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