Folsom Property Tax Rate

What Folsom homes are assessed at, and when

The 25,162 single-family homes on Folsom’s 2025 roll are assessed from about $448,000 (lower quarter) to $774,000 (upper quarter), with a median of $612,000. Because Proposition 13 sets the assessment when a home changes hands, the year a home was bought matters more than what it would sell for today: at Folsom’s median 1.08% rate, a home whose base year — the year its Proposition 13 assessment was last set, usually when it last changed hands — is before 1990 pays about $2,632 a year and one reassessed in 2020 – 2025 about $8,253.

Folsom’s 29,392 parcels are 86% single-family homes (71% of assessed value), 3.9% condos (1.9% of assessed value), 3.3% other (1.6% of assessed value), 2.8% vacant land (1.7% of assessed value), 2.6% commercial and industrial (16% of assessed value) and 1.8% residential income (2–4 units) (8.1% of assessed value).

Sacramento County Assessor 2025 roll, single-family parcels by situs city; typical bill = median assessed value in the group × Folsom’s median ad-valorem rate (1.0831%, shown rounded as 1.08% above), before Mello-Roos and direct assessments. Groups with fewer than 50 parcels are not shown. Base year is the land base year the Assessor carries; it resets on a change of ownership or new construction (reassessment rules). Market values are higher than these assessed values for most long-held homes.

Property tax in Folsom, in context

On the latest assessment roll, Folsom’s taxable property totaled about $21.9 billion — up 6.2% from the prior year. Its roughly 26,800 residential parcels (of 29,392 parcels of all kinds on the roll) are about 94% single-family homes, 4% condominiums and 2% small income properties (2–4 units). A typical single-family home is assessed at about $612,000 — an existing owner's Proposition 13 base-year value, not today's market price — for a typical annual tax near $6,629. About 13% of single-family homes still carry a Proposition 13 base set before 2000 (a median base year near 2017), so long-time owners are assessed well below current prices.

Folsom spans several Tax Rate Areas, so the ad-valorem rate ranges from about 1.0831% to 1.1921% across most parcels, depending on which voter-approved bonds apply to a parcel, all on top of the 1% Proposition 13 base. Folsom is one of Sacramento County's Mello-Roos areas: 38 Community Facilities Districts are on record here — where a district publishes a typical figure, the annual special tax runs from roughly $82 to $3,328. That special tax is billed on top of the ad-valorem rate, is not based on your home's value, and applies only to parcels inside a district — so check your bill.

Folsom property tax vs. nearby cities

How Folsom’s typical rate and bill compare with its closest Sacramento County cities. A higher rate reflects more voter-approved bond debt in that area, not a higher assessment.

Nearest cities by Census place center; distance is straight-line. Typical bill is the median single-family figure for existing owners, ad-valorem only (excludes Mello-Roos and direct assessments).

Paying property tax in Folsom

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