Development fees per home in Kern County (unincorporated)

Fees by category click a slice

$31,204

11 fees

Every fee, and when it is due

Fee	Category	How it’s charged	Due	Amount
Transportation Impact Fee - Metropolitan BakersfieldNon-Core Area	Transportation	per home	Not yet recorded	$12,870
School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Panama-Buena Vista Union SD + Kern High SDunverifiedPanama-Buena Vista Union SD areaSchools (SJV)	Schools	2 parts, added together	Not yet recorded	$10,760
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Community Parksunverified	Parks	per home	Not yet recorded	$3,088
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Public Protectionunverified	Public safety	per home	Building permit	$1,313
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Fireunverified	Public safety	per home	Not yet recorded	$1,283
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Waste Managementunverified	Other	per home	Not yet recorded	$973
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Sheriff Patrol & Investigationunverified	Public safety	per home	Not yet recorded	$432
Public Facilities Impact Fee - General Governmentunverified	Public safety	per home	Not yet recorded	$260
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Public Healthunverified	Public safety	per home	Building permit	$133
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Regional Parksunverified	Parks	per home	Not yet recorded	$57
Public Facilities Impact Fee - Libraryunverified	Other	per home	Not yet recorded	$34
Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot				$31,204

Each line is the one rate this home pays. Most fees publish several rates — by house size, lot, or location — and only one applies. Click a fee for its full schedule and source documents.

Published rates that could not be converted

These are real charges. They are left out of the figure because they cannot be worked out per house without knowing something this site does not assume — a percentage of another fee, a per-room count, a per-application charge.

Air Impact Assessment (AIA) application feeper applicationrate only

ISR off-site mitigation administrative feepercentrate only

Impact fee administration surchargepercentrate only

Rule 9510 ISR off-site mitigation fee - NOxper ton NOx mitigatedrate only

Rule 9510 ISR off-site mitigation fee - PM10per ton PM10 mitigatedrate only

Charges that are not part of the one-time total above: fees set as a percentage of another fee, and payments a builder can make instead of building something. Neither is added to the headline figure, because neither is a fixed amount every new home owes.

Percentage surcharges

Administration charges set as a percentage of other fees. Shown as a rate, because what they come to depends on the project.

ISR off-site mitigation administrative feeof ISR off-site mitigation fee — about $1,248 on this figure4%

Impact fee administration surchargeof county impact fees — about $156 on this figure0.5%

Housing and in-lieu options

No housing or inclusionary charge is recorded for Kern County (unincorporated).

Confirmed absences

Fees Kern County (unincorporated) does not charge. Each was looked for and recorded as not charged, so a builder can rely on the blank.

Affordable / inclusionary housing feeHousingno fee

Habitat conservation fee under Kern County Code ch. 17.62Habitatno fee

Recorded gaps

Charges that exist here but whose amount could not be found in an official source. The figure above is understated by whatever they turn out to be. They are listed so that a charge we could not price is never read as a charge of nothing.

School Facilities Fee - Rosedale Union SD + Kern High SDSchoolsnot retrieved

Sewer connection charge (KCC 14.16.050)Sewer - treatmentnot retrieved

Water connection chargeWaternot retrieved

What we have, and what we don’t

5 of the 8 kinds of fee a new home normally pays are on file for Kern County (unincorporated) and are in the figure above. These are not:

WaterA charge is known to exist here; its amount could not be found in an official document, so the figure above leaves it out.amount not found

SewerA charge is known to exist here; its amount could not be found in an official document, so the figure above leaves it out.amount not found

DrainageA fee exists but applies only inside a named plan area or district, so a home outside them pays nothing here.plan area only

Data notes

RankingThis city is ranked. Ranking needs every core kind of fee on file and most rates confirmed against a second source.ranked

Unconfirmed amountsPublished amounts not yet confirmed against a second source. Badged in the table.10 of 11

The city’s own annual fee reportThis city does not publish the annual impact-fee report this check looks for; it accounts for its fees under a different law.not applicable

Fees on file for Kern County (unincorporated)11 in the figure, and 11 more checked and found not to apply, not charged here, or with no amount we could find22

Choices with no general optionPlanned Local Drainage Area fees, Transportation Impact Fee - Metropolitan Bakersfield, School district — a home must be in one of them, so the figure keeps the costliest and says so herestated

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 25 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Development fees per home, Kern County (unincorporated)”. $31,204 for a 2,000 sq ft detached house on a 0.13 acre lot, outside any plan area. Built 25 Sep 2026 from the adopted schedules linked on each fee page.

Development fees for a new home in Kern County (unincorporated)