Rancho Cordova Property Tax Rate

What Rancho Cordova homes are assessed at, and when

The 19,396 single-family homes on Rancho Cordova’s 2025 roll are assessed from about $289,000 (lower quarter) to $570,000 (upper quarter), with a median of $444,000. 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 Rancho Cordova’s median 1.28% 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 $1,322 a year and one reassessed in 2020 – 2025 about $7,212.

Rancho Cordova’s 25,169 parcels are 77% single-family homes (59% of assessed value), 8.7% vacant land (3.8% of assessed value), 4.7% commercial and industrial (27% of assessed value), 4.3% residential income (2–4 units) (8.3% of assessed value), 2.8% condos (1.1% of assessed value) and 2.5% other (1.2% of assessed value).

Sacramento County Assessor 2025 roll, single-family parcels by situs city; typical bill = median assessed value in the group × Rancho Cordova’s median ad-valorem rate (1.2832%, shown rounded as 1.28% 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 Rancho Cordova, in context

On the latest assessment roll, Rancho Cordova’s taxable property totaled about $14.7 billion — up 9.5% from the prior year. Its roughly 21,200 residential parcels (of 25,169 parcels of all kinds on the roll) are about 92% single-family homes, 3% condominiums and 5% small income properties (2–4 units). A typical single-family home is assessed at about $444,000 — an existing owner's Proposition 13 base-year value, not today's market price — for a typical annual tax near $5,697. About 11% of single-family homes still carry a Proposition 13 base set before 2000 (a median base year near 2019), so long-time owners are assessed well below current prices.

Rancho Cordova spans several Tax Rate Areas, so the ad-valorem rate ranges from about 1.0892% to 1.2832% across most parcels, depending on which voter-approved bonds apply to a parcel, all on top of the 1% Proposition 13 base. Rancho Cordova is one of Sacramento County's Mello-Roos areas: 25 Community Facilities Districts are on record here — where a district publishes a typical figure, the annual special tax runs from roughly $77 to $1,385. 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.

Rancho Cordova property tax vs. nearby cities

How Rancho Cordova’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 Rancho Cordova

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