Tax shifts
Where does your tax bill actually go?
Your property tax is one number, but it pays for a dozen different things — and some of them, like your fire district and your sewer bill, come from separate bills at separate rates. See how a year of your taxes divides up.
Estimates from public data, not your bill.
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At $8 for every 1,000 gallons. Your water bill has the real figure.
The whole town's budget: $166,262,518
Your bar is this bar, scaled to your bill. That is the whole of the method: the town does not publish which dollars pay for which department, so your The total dollars the town collects in property tax for the year. is split in the same proportions as its spending.
How it works
Your town tax is divided here the way the adopted budget is divided. The town doesn’t publish which dollars pay for which department, so this shows your bill split in the same proportions as the town’s spending. Your fire district and sewer charge are real separate bills at their own rates, not shares of the town bill.
The town bill itself is the ordinary arithmetic: seventy per cent of what your property is worth, times the town’s rate, for every $1,000 of that. The fire district charges its own rate on the same assessed value. Sewer is charged by water used, so it does not depend on what the property is worth at all.
The figures behind this
Every line comes from Enfield’s adopted budget for 2026-27, from its summary of expenditures by function and the department pages behind it. The nine lines here are the town’s own headings, regrouped only where a heading would mean nothing to a resident:
| Shown here | What the budget calls it |
|---|---|
| Schools | Total schools budget |
| Police | Police Services |
| Public works and roads | Public Works |
| Debt payments | Debt Service |
| Employee benefits and insurance | Pension and Retirement Charges, plus Liability and Other Insurance |
| General government | General Government |
| Library, recreation and social services | Transfer to Library, plus Transfers to Social Services |
| Public safety other than police | Public Safety Communications, School Security, Emergency Management, and the transfer to ambulance service |
| Everything else | Planning and Development, payments to outside agencies, and the remaining transfers out |
The nine add up to the adopted total exactly. That is checked every time the figures are rebuilt, and the rebuild refuses to write anything if they do not.
The library, social services and ambulance run as their own funds rather than as town departments, and the general fund pays for them by transferring money across. Those transfers are what appears here, because that is what your tax actually buys.
The sewer charge is Enfield’s published rate for the current year. The town charges by water used rather than a flat fee, so a yearly figure needs an assumed household usage — that assumption is marked and you can change it.
Simplifications
- State aid and fees pay for part of every department; this view doesn’t try to guess which parts.
- Employee benefits are budgeted in one place and shown in one place; in reality they belong to every department.
- Vehicle tax isn’t included.
- The sewer figure is this year’s published residential charge, with the usage assumed.
What would change these numbers most
- The schools. Half of everything the town spends, so a school budget vote moves this bar more than anything else on it.
- Which fire district you’re in. The rates differ by more than two mills between the highest and the lowest.
- Debt. Roughly eight cents of every dollar goes to money already borrowed, which is what the borrowing model is about.
Sources for this model
Every number this model uses, with where it came from and the date it applies to. Values marked estimate are assumptions, not published figures.
- assessment_ratio · Connecticut official70% as of 2026-01-01CGS 12-62a — uniform assessment rate — Connecticut General Assembly , 2026-01-01Connecticut assesses real property at 70% of market value. Assessed value = market value * 0.70.
- budget_group_benefits · Enfield official$5,805,459 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Pensions, retirement charges and the town's insurance. Budgeted in one place, so shown in one place, though in reality they belong to every department.
- budget_group_debt · Enfield official$12,748,509 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01What the town pays each year on money it has already borrowed.
- budget_group_general_government · Enfield official$5,722,943 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01The town manager, finance, the assessor, the collector, the town clerk, legal and the council.
- budget_group_library_social · Enfield official$5,931,533 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01The library, senior centre, recreation and swimming run as their own funds, paid for by transfers from the general fund; social services likewise.
- budget_group_other · Enfield official$10,767,315 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Planning and development, the town's payments to outside agencies, and the transfers out that are not the library, social services or ambulance — capital, technology and the like.
- budget_group_police · Enfield official$16,038,284 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Police Services. Shown on its own because it is most of what the town spends on public safety.
- budget_group_public_safety_other · Enfield official$3,514,572 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Dispatch, school security, emergency management, and the town's share of ambulance service.
- budget_group_public_works · Enfield official$22,155,791 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Roads, refuse, buildings and grounds, custodial and equipment, as the budget groups them.
- budget_group_schools · Enfield official$83,578,112 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01The Board of Education's adopted budget, the single biggest thing the town buys.
- budget_state_aid_adopted · Enfield official$34,316,564 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01Money from the state. Same page. Used only to explain why this view divides the whole budget rather than trying to say which revenue pays for what.
- budget_taxes_adopted · Enfield official$121,959,737 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01What the budget expects to raise in taxes. General fund revenue summary, printed page 12.
- budget_total_adopted · Enfield official$166,262,518 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01The whole adopted general fund, town and schools together. Summary of expenditures by function, printed page 16.
- budget_town_adopted · Enfield official$82,684,406 as of 2026-07-01Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Town of Enfield — Town of Enfield , 2026-09-01The town's half of it, same page.
- fire_district_1_rate · Enfield official3.49 mills as of 2025-07-01Mill Rates for FY2014-2026 — CT Office of Policy and Management (data.ct.gov) , 2026-09-01Enfield - #1 Enfield Fire District — the district's own rate, a separate bill from the town's.
- fire_district_hazardville_rate · Enfield official3.6 mills as of 2025-07-01Mill Rates for FY2014-2026 — CT Office of Policy and Management (data.ct.gov) , 2026-09-01Enfield - #3 Hazardville Fire District — the district's own rate, a separate bill from the town's.
- fire_district_north_thompsonville_rate · Enfield official3.15 mills as of 2025-07-01Mill Rates for FY2014-2026 — CT Office of Policy and Management (data.ct.gov) , 2026-09-01Enfield - #4 North Thompsonville Fire District — the district's own rate, a separate bill from the town's.
- fire_district_shaker_pines_rate · Enfield official4 mills as of 2025-07-01Mill Rates for FY2014-2026 — CT Office of Policy and Management (data.ct.gov) , 2026-09-01Enfield - #5 Shaker Pines Fire District — the district's own rate, a separate bill from the town's.
- fire_district_thompsonville_rate · Enfield official5.8 mills as of 2025-07-01Mill Rates for FY2014-2026 — CT Office of Policy and Management (data.ct.gov) , 2026-09-01Enfield - #2 Thompsonville Fire District — the district's own rate, a separate bill from the town's.
- mill_rate_real_estate · Enfield reported33.11 mills as of 2026-07-01Enfield Town Council Approves 2026-27 Budget, Increases Taxes — Patch , 2026-09-01Enfield's adopted rate for this year. The state's own table runs one year behind, where the rate is 31.50.
- sewer_rate_per_1000_gallons · Enfield official$7.7 as of 2026-07-01Sewer Service Fee Schedule, FY2025-26 — Enfield Water Pollution Control Authority , 2026-09-01What Enfield charges for every 1,000 gallons of billed water, below 20,000 gallons in a billing period. Above that it is $11.53.
- sewer_usage_assumed_gallons · Enfield estimate60,000 as of 2026-07-01Sewer Service Fee Schedule, FY2025-26 — Enfield Water Pollution Control Authority , 2026-09-01A year's water for a household, assumed. Enfield charges by usage, not a flat fee, so a bill cannot be shown without one — change it to your own.
Changes to this model
- 2026-09-01 Published a year of your taxes, divided the way the town's budget is divided.