Davie FL Millage Rate 2026: What Your Tax Bill Costs

What is the millage rate in Davie, Florida?

The Davie millage rate you see quoted is not the rate you pay. Most people search for one number and assume that is their tax bill. The Town of Davie operating and debt rate is 5.8118 mills. That is real, but it is the smallest of six lines that stack on a single Davie property tax bill.

Here is what actually shows up. Broward County charges a countywide rate of 5.6658 mills for fiscal year 2026, the first reduction since 2018. The Broward County School Board is the largest single component on most bills at roughly 6.48 mills. Then come the South Broward Hospital District, the South Florida Water Management District, and the Children’s Services Council of Broward. Stack them and the combined ad valorem rate for a Davie parcel lands close to 19 to 20 mills.

Run that against value and the effective rate is about 1.1 percent of assessed value in Broward County. On a home assessed at $750,000 with homestead, that is roughly $14,000 a year in ad valorem tax before any non ad valorem assessments. The number matters because it is the difference between a payment you can carry and one that quietly breaks your budget. If you are mapping the full cost of owning in Davie, the Davie cost of living guide puts the tax line next to insurance and the rest of your monthly carry.

How a mill works and how your Davie tax is calculated

One mill equals one dollar of tax for every one thousand dollars of taxable value. That is one tenth of one percent. A combined rate of 20 mills means 2 percent of taxable value, not 20 percent. People panic at the word mills because it sounds large. It is not.

The calculation runs in a fixed order under Florida law. Your county appraiser sets the just value, which is market value. Assessment limits like Save Our Homes come off that to produce your assessed value. Then your exemptions, the homestead exemption first, come off the assessed value to produce taxable value. Taxable value times the combined millage rate gives your ad valorem tax. The Broward County Property Appraiser publishes the live millage tables at bcpa.net and a parcel level estimator that does this math for you.

Two more things land on the bill that are not millage at all. Non ad valorem assessments cover solid waste, fire, and drainage. Those are flat fees set by service, not a percentage of value, so they do not move when your assessment moves. Add them after you run the millage math, not inside it.

The homestead exemption is the single biggest lever a Davie owner controls. It removes $50,000 of taxable value on a primary residence. The first $25,000 applies to all taxing authorities. The second $25,000 applies to everything except school taxes, which is why your school line is calculated on a slightly higher taxable value than your county and town lines. Davie sits in ZIP codes 33314, 33317, 33324, 33325, 33328, 33330, and 33331, and the exemption works the same across all of them because it is a county and state rule, not a neighborhood one. The closing costs guide for Davie walks through where the exemption gets filed in your first year of ownership.

Why your first Davie tax bill is higher than the seller’s

This is the part that surprises almost every Davie buyer, so read it before you make an offer. The tax line you see on the MLS listing is the seller’s tax, not yours. In most cases your bill in year one will be meaningfully higher, sometimes by thousands of dollars a year. That is not an error and it is not a reassessment penalty. It is how Save Our Homes works.

Save Our Homes caps the annual increase in a homesteaded property’s assessed value at 3 percent or the change in CPI, whichever is lower. A seller who owned for ten years has an assessed value held far below current market value by that cap. When the home sells, the cap resets. The new owner’s assessed value snaps back up to just value, which is essentially your purchase price, in the first year. Your 3 percent protection only starts working in year two, building from the new, higher base.

So the math is simple and it is the reason I tell every buyer to estimate off their own purchase price, never off the seller’s tax line. A long held home might show $6,000 in taxes on the listing while your year one bill on the same property runs $14,000 or more. The seller was protected. You are not, yet. If you want the same logic applied to the sale side, the Davie seller net sheet shows how the cap and the proration shape what a seller actually walks away with.

This is exactly the kind of number that should be settled before you write an offer, not discovered at your first November tax bill. As a Broker Associate with Coldwell Banker and a Davie native, I build the real tax estimate off the purchase price for every buyer, so the payment in the offer is the payment they actually carry. Current pricing context for that estimate lives in the Davie real estate market guide.

What the TRIM notice is and when to act on it

The TRIM notice is not a bill. Truth in Millage notices mail from the Broward County Property Appraiser every August. The notice shows your assessed and taxable values, the proposed millage from each taxing authority, the dollar effect of each, and the dates of the public budget hearings. Read it the week it arrives. It is your one clean window to see every authority’s proposed rate in one place before the bill is final.

It is also your appeal window. If your assessed value looks wrong, you petition the Broward County Value Adjustment Board within roughly 25 days of the TRIM mailing. Miss that window and you wait a full year. The town publishes its own budget and millage detail at davie-fl.gov, and the countywide budget figures sit at broward.org. Between those two and your TRIM notice you have every number you need to check the math yourself.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the current millage rate for the Town of Davie?

The Town of Davie millage rate for fiscal year 2026 is 5.8118 mills, made up of 5.6250 mills operating and 0.1868 mills debt service. That is the town portion only. Your full bill also includes Broward County, the school board, and several special districts, which brings the combined rate near 19 to 20 mills.

How much are property taxes in Davie, Florida?

The effective property tax rate in Davie runs about 1.1 percent of assessed value once every taxing authority is combined. On a home assessed at $750,000 with the homestead exemption, that is roughly $14,000 a year in ad valorem tax, plus flat non ad valorem assessments for services like solid waste and fire. Your exact figure depends on your taxable value and parcel, so confirm it on your TRIM notice or the BCPA estimator.

Why did my Davie property tax go up so much after I bought the house?

Because Save Our Homes resets when a home sells. The previous owner’s assessed value was capped at 3 percent annual growth, often holding it well below market value. When you buy, that cap resets and your assessed value moves up to your purchase price in year one. Your own 3 percent protection only begins the following year, so the first bill is the highest jump you will see.

Is the seller’s tax amount on the listing what I will pay?

No. The listing shows the seller’s tax under their capped assessed value, which can be far below market. Your first year tax is calculated on your purchase price, so estimate off that number, not off the MLS tax line. The gap between the two is frequently several thousand dollars a year.

Talk to a Davie Real Estate Expert

Anthony Spitaleri, Broker Associate with Coldwell Banker and a Davie native, builds the real property tax estimate off your purchase price for every buyer, not off the seller’s capped tax line that surprises people in November. If you want to see your actual Davie tax number for a specific home or neighborhood before you write an offer, the next step is a direct conversation. Schedule a free 15-minute strategy call and walk into your decision with every number known.

Anthony Spitaleri
Living in Davie Florida
954-235-5783
Davie, Florida
livingindavieflorida.com

Written by Anthony Spitaleri, Broker Associate with Coldwell Banker and a Davie native. More about Anthony

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