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Scottsdale, Arizona · your tax bill

Your tax bill, explained

A home in the City of Scottsdale, in Scottsdale Unified School District. 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.

$3,178 a year — about $265 a month

On a market value of $450,000 — taxed on 10% of it, $45,000. Arizona assesses an owner-occupied home at 10% of its limited property value (A.R.S. §42-15003). An estimate from published rates — your own tax notice is the final word.

Of every $100 you pay

Scottsdale Unified School District$45.73 · $1,453 a year

Maricopa County$16.41 · $522 a year

Maricopa Community Colleges$15.33 · $487 a year

City of Scottsdale$12.92 · $411 a year

Maricopa Special Health Care District$4.13 · $131 a year

Flood Control District$2.02 · $64 a year

Central Arizona Water Conservation District$1.98 · $63 a year

East Valley Institute of Technology$0.71 · $23 a year

County Library District$0.65 · $21 a year

Fire District Assistance$0.11 · $3 a year

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

Schools$31.70 · $1,007

Other districts$24.61 · $782

County services$16.41 · $522

School bonds and voter-approved overrides$14.04 · $446

City services$6.93 · $220

Paying off bonds (debt)$6.32 · $201

Arizona splits rates into primary (operations) and secondary (bonds, voter-approved overrides and special districts).

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

Arizona’s Truth in Taxation law makes a city or county that raises its primary levy above the prior year’s (new construction aside) publish a notice and hold a hearing; no yearly rate is published for every unit here.

Meetings are on the calendar.

Each government, line by line

Scottsdale Unified School District — $1,453 a year

$3.2298 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Scottsdale Unified School District — primary (operations)$1,007

Scottsdale Unified School District — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$446

Maricopa County — $522 a year

$1.1591 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Maricopa County — primary (operations)$522

Maricopa Community Colleges — $487 a year

$1.0828 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Maricopa Community Colleges — primary (operations)$477

Maricopa Community Colleges — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$10

City of Scottsdale — $411 a year

$0.9124 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

City of Scottsdale — primary (operations)$220

City of Scottsdale — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$190

Maricopa Special Health Care District — $131 a year

$0.2914 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Maricopa Special Health Care District — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$131

Flood Control District — $64 a year

$0.1428 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Flood Control District — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$64

Central Arizona Water Conservation District — $63 a year

$0.1400 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Central Arizona Water Conservation District — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$63

East Valley Institute of Technology — $23 a year

$0.0500 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

East Valley Institute of Technology — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$23

County Library District — $21 a year

$0.0462 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

County Library District — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$21

Fire District Assistance — $3 a year

$0.0076 per $100 on $45,000 of taxable value · tax year 2025 · Maricopa County Treasurer — 2025 tax rates (area 481400)

Fire District Assistance — secondary (bonds, overrides, districts)$3

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.
Arizona’s homeowner rebate (state aid to education, A.R.S. §15-972) lowers the school primary tax on an owner-occupied home and isn’t modeled; the Treasurer lists this area’s approximate residential primary rate after it as $3.8289 instead of $4.9466 per $100.
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.