Senior Citizen Property Tax Freeze Credit 2025 Rate Information

Update for senior citizens about how the tax freeze credit will look on their bill.

February 24, 2026 | 2 min reading time

Example of Credit on 2025 Tax Bill

See below for an example of how Senior Property Tax Freeze Credit looks on your 2025 bill:

Example of what the senior property tax freeze credit looks like on your bill.

Property Tax Freeze Credit on a $100k Residence

Example calculated using the 2025 tax rate:

  1. Value and taxes before the tax freeze
    • Market Value = $100,000
    • Assessed Value = 19,000
    • Total Taxes = $1,555
    • City Tax Portion = $276
  2. Assume 12% increase in value due to reassessment
    • Market Value = $112,000
    • Assessed Value after reassessment = 21,280
    • New Total tax amount w/out freeze = $1,742
    • City Tax portion = $309
    • Amount of Credit due to property tax freeze = $33
      • City taxes frozen at previous year's amount of $276
      • $309 - $276 = $33
      • Freeze credit applies to City taxes only. Does not include Schools, Library, MSD, Zoo & Museum, etc.
  3. New Total Tax bill = ($1,742 - $33) = $1,709

For the 2025 reassessment, a $100,000 property whose value increased by 12% would have been credited approximately $33.

In the above example, the total tax went up less than it would have if the Senior Property Tax Freeze was not in place.

  • Without freeze, taxes increase $187
  • With freeze in place, taxes increase $154
  • Taxes saved by the freeze, $33.

 

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