Raise the levy
What a bigger levy does to the city rate and the average home’s bill.
Runs on the adopted payable-2026 budget: the local levy of $2,179,043 over $9,197,371 of tax capacity, the 23.69% city rate.
New levy
$2,432,787
up from $2,332,787 certified for 2026
City tax rate
23.692% → 24.779%
tax base held constant
Average existing home
+$52.06/yr
city share of the bill
To absorb this increase with growth instead of a higher rate, the tax base would have to grow by about 4.6%. See how many acres of development that is.
Assumptions
Scenario, not forecast.
- Percent changes are measured against the certified levy. The rate effect applies the dollar change to the locally raised portion, because the fiscal-disparities distribution is set by the metro program, not the annual levy vote.
- For average-home and equivalent-home examples this page uses the official payable-2025 Department of Revenue homestead aggregate as a proxy ($6,555,471 of residential homestead tax capacity across 1,369 homesteads, about $4,789 each) applied to the payable-2026 levy and tax base. Treat it as a scale proxy, not a payable-2026 parcel count.
Method and sources
City tax rate equals the levy divided by the tax base. With the tax base held constant, a levy change moves the rate in proportion, and the average home's city tax moves with the rate. All sources and the full method