Orange County Property Tax Rate 2026: Millage Held at 4.4347 in the Adopted $9.0 Billion Budget
Orange County's adopted fiscal 2026-27 millage summary holds the countywide operating rate at 4.4347 mills — unchanged again — inside a $9.0 billion budget now in force. What the county's own numbers mean on a tax bill.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT · ORANGE COUNTY
Orange County’s property tax rate for 2026 is set, and the rate itself did not move. The county’s fiscal year 2026-27 millage summary — the document presented for the final budget hearing on September 24, 2026 — lists the countywide rate in its “Current Year Adopted” column at 4.4347 mills, exactly the prior year’s rate, inside a total budget the county puts at $9.0 billion. The fiscal year began October 1, 2026, so these are the rates now running, and the ones behind the tax bills arriving this fall.
The adopted rate, line by line
The millage summary breaks the countywide 4.4347 into three parts: 4.0441 mills for the General Fund, 0.2250 for the Capital Projects Fund and 0.1656 for the Parks Fund. Each component is also unchanged from the prior year — the summary records a 0.00% change for the countywide total. The county’s newsroom releases for both September budget hearings note that the 4.4347 operating rate has been maintained since 2008, and the county’s budget overview calls it the 11th lowest countywide operating tax rate in Florida.
An unchanged rate is not the same as a rolled-back rate. The summary lists the countywide rolled-back rate — the rate that would raise the same revenue from the same properties as last year — at 4.2404 mills, so the adopted 4.4347 sits 4.58% above rolled-back. That gap is what rising taxable values do: the county’s budget overview, citing the Property Appraiser’s preliminary tax roll, anticipates countywide taxable value of $251.5 billion, up 7.4%, generating an estimated $1.115 billion in property tax proceeds.
What 4.4347 mills means on a bill
The county’s own tax and millage information gives the formula plainly: taxable value divided by 1,000, multiplied by the millage rate. On a property with $100,000 of taxable value, the countywide line alone comes to $443.47 for the year. That is only the county government’s countywide line — a real bill also carries school, city (where applicable) and special district levies that this summary does not set.
Two county levies apply only in the unincorporated area, and both were also held flat in the adopted summary: the County-Unincorporated service district at 1.8043 mills and County Fire and EMS at 2.8437 mills. Across every county taxing district together, the summary’s aggregate millage is 6.9675 mills — 2.21% above the aggregate rolled-back rate of 6.8167, and 0.18% above the prior year’s aggregate of 6.9547.
The two exceptions, and the budget behind the rate
Almost every district rate in the summary repeats the prior year. The document’s own note flags two exceptions, both lake districts, both decreased: Bass Lake, from 1.1098 to 0.8878 mills, and Lake Jean, from 0.0205 to 0.0103 mills.
The budget the rate supports is organized, in the county’s overview, around five pillars. Public safety is funded at more than $1.1 billion, including a $470 million Sheriff’s operating budget, $438 million in Fire Rescue operating funding (excluding capital and reserves) with 34 new positions, and $276 million for Corrections. The Affordable Housing Trust Fund receives $19.5 million this year. The general fund reserve stands at $130 million, which the overview states is 7.5% of the fund.
The county government that levies this tax sits in downtown Orlando, but the countywide rate reaches every taxable property in Orange County, incorporated or not. For the other big visitor-paid line in the county’s books, see our coverage of the commission’s $780 million tourist tax vote, and the Opinion desk’s argument over what that ledger owes residents. More from this desk is in the Local Government archive.
Sources & notes
Every figure in this article was checked today against:
- Orange County — Fiscal Year 2026-27 Millage Summary and budget overview, in the county’s FY 2027 budget public hearing document (ocfl.net) — the adopted countywide rate and its components, the rolled-back comparison, the unincorporated and aggregate rates, the Bass Lake and Lake Jean decreases, and the tax formula.
- Orange County — FY 2026-27 Budget Overview (same county document) — the $9.0 billion total budget, $251.5 billion taxable value and 7.4% growth, estimated $1.115 billion in property tax proceeds, the $130 million general fund reserve, and the public safety and housing figures.
- OCFL Newsroom — “Orange County Government to Hold Final Public Hearing for FY 2026-2027 Budget,” September 22, 2026 — the September 24 final hearing at which the Board considered adopting the Final Millage and Budget Resolutions, and the rate held since 2008.
Rates are stated as adopted in the county’s millage summary. Worked examples use the county’s published formula and are illustrative, not a calculation of any individual bill.
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