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San Francisco, California · your tax bill

Your tax bill, explained

A home in San Francisco. Enter your own assessed value to see where every dollar of your property tax goes — and how it compares with each government’s “no-raise” rate. Updated 2026-10-06.

$10,561 a year — about $880 a month

On an assessed value of $900,000, as a homestead. An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Of every $100 you pay

City and County of San Francisco$85.37 · $9,017 a year

San Francisco Unified School District$9.90 · $1,045 a year

San Francisco Community College District$2.65 · $280 a year

BART$1.82 · $192 a year

Bay Area Air Quality Management District$0.18 · $19 a year

San Francisco County Office of Education$0.08 · $9 a year

Where it ends up — every government’s share, by what it pays for

City services$76.03 · $8,030

Paying off bonds (debt)$15.45 · $1,631

Schools$6.59 · $696

Other districts$1.93 · $204

California’s base rate is 1% (Proposition 13); the rest is voter-approved debt, shown as debt.

The “no-raise” rate — how this state handles it

California has no yearly no-raise rate: Proposition 13 caps the base rate at 1% and limits assessed value growth to 2% a year until a home sells.

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Each government, line by line

City and County of San Francisco — $9,017 a year

$1.0097 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

City and County of San Francisco — Proposition 13 share$8,030

City and County of San Francisco — voter-approved bonds$987

San Francisco Unified School District — $1,045 a year

$0.1170 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

San Francisco Unified School District — Proposition 13 share$688

San Francisco Unified School District — voter-approved bonds$358

San Francisco Community College District — $280 a year

$0.0314 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

San Francisco Community College District — voter-approved bonds$151

San Francisco Community College District — Proposition 13 share$129

BART — $192 a year

$0.0215 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

BART — voter-approved bonds$136

BART — Proposition 13 share$56

Bay Area Air Quality Management District — $19 a year

$0.0021 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

Bay Area Air Quality Management District — Proposition 13 share$19

San Francisco County Office of Education — $9 a year

$0.0010 per $100 on $893,000 of taxable value · FY2025-26 · Board of Supervisors Resolution 447-25 — FY2025-26 tax rates

San Francisco County Office of Education — Proposition 13 share$9

What this doesn’t show — the honest limits

Fees and assessments on the same bill — stormwater, trash, street lights and others — aren’t property taxes and aren’t included.
Senior, veteran, widow and disability exemptions aren’t modeled.
Parcel taxes and special assessments on the same bill aren’t rates and aren’t included.
The FY2026-27 rates weren’t posted yet when checked.
Spreading a government’s tax across its whole budget is a fair picture, not a receipt: most budgets also run on other money (sales tax, state aid, fees).

Related: Tax lab — change the rates · The money trail · What if we saved?. This page computes and cites; it doesn’t say what any rate should be. Spot an error? Report it.