California land underwriting
Not legal or tax advice
Property tax rules
Rules used: Generic national rules.
Assessment
- Assessment ratio defaults to 100%; enter the county's ratio or assessed value if different.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Rates
- Generic national rules: annual tax = taxable value × the combined rate you enter (from the county tax bill or rate sheet).
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Exemptions
- No statewide exemption amount is applied. Enter dollar exemptions from the county tax bill.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Ag/special use
- No state-specific delinquency penalties or special-use rollback are applied.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
Delinquency
- No state-specific delinquency penalties or special-use rollback are applied.
Source: AcreMath generic national property-tax model (as of 2026-10-12)
How it works: methodology.
County registry (58 counties)
Counties and equivalents from the Census 2020 (national_county2020.txt). Start a deal in any county.
- Alameda County (06001)
- Alpine County (06003)
- Amador County (06005)
- Butte County (06007)
- Calaveras County (06009)
- Colusa County (06011)
- Contra Costa County (06013)
- Del Norte County (06015)
- El Dorado County (06017)
- Fresno County (06019)
- Glenn County (06021)
- Humboldt County (06023)
- Imperial County (06025)
- Inyo County (06027)
- Kern County (06029)
- Kings County (06031)
- Lake County (06033)
- Lassen County (06035)
- Los Angeles County (06037)
- Madera County (06039)
- Marin County (06041)
- Mariposa County (06043)
- Mendocino County (06045)
- Merced County (06047)
- Modoc County (06049)
- Mono County (06051)
- Monterey County (06053)
- Napa County (06055)
- Nevada County (06057)
- Orange County (06059)
- Placer County (06061)
- Plumas County (06063)
- Riverside County (06065)
- Sacramento County (06067)
- San Benito County (06069)
- San Bernardino County (06071)
- San Diego County (06073)
- San Francisco County (06075)
- San Joaquin County (06077)
- San Luis Obispo County (06079)
- San Mateo County (06081)
- Santa Barbara County (06083)
- Santa Clara County (06085)
- Santa Cruz County (06087)
- Shasta County (06089)
- Sierra County (06091)
- Siskiyou County (06093)
- Solano County (06095)
- Sonoma County (06097)
- Stanislaus County (06099)
- Sutter County (06101)
- Tehama County (06103)
- Trinity County (06105)
- Tulare County (06107)
- Tuolumne County (06109)
- Ventura County (06111)
- Yolo County (06113)
- Yuba County (06115)