Development fees per home in Merced

Fees by category click a slice

$45,721

8 fees

Every fee, and when it is due

Fee	Category	How it’s charged	Due	Amount
Public Facilities Impact Fee	Transportation	per home	Final inspection or occupancy	$13,574
Water facility charge (major water facilities connection)	Water	per home	Service connection	$10,995
School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Merced City SD	Schools	$3.59 per sq ft	Building permit	$7,180
Sewer facility charge - plant component	Sewer	per home	Building permit	$6,751
School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Merced Union HSD	Schools	$1.79 per sq ft	Building permit	$3,580
Tax on Construction of a Residential Unit	Other	$0.91 per sq ft	Building permit	$1,820
Sewer facility charge - line, pump and main componentNorth of Bear Creek	Sewer	per home	Building permit	$1,267
New Residential (Capital Equipment) Charge - refuseunverified	Other	per home	Building permit	$554
Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot				$45,721

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.

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

No percentage surcharge is recorded for Merced.

Housing and in-lieu options

No housing or inclusionary charge is recorded for Merced.

Confirmed absences

Fees Merced does not charge. Each was looked for and recorded as not charged, so a builder can rely on the blank.

Storm drainage or flood control impact feeDrainageno fee

Habitat conservation plan feeHabitatno fee

MCAG Regional Transportation Impact FeeTransportationno 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.

Fire and Police component of the Public Facilities Impact FeeFirenot retrieved

Parks component of the Public Facilities Impact FeeParksnot retrieved

What we have, and what we don’t

6 of the 8 kinds of fee a new home normally pays are on file for Merced and are in the figure above. These are not:

ParksA 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

Fire/Public safetyA 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

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.1 of 8

The city’s own annual fee reportWe read this city’s own published fee report and checked every charge in it against the list above.read

Fees on file for Merced8 in the figure, and 5 more checked and found not to apply, not charged here, or with no amount we could find13

Choices with no general optionSewer facility charge - line, pump and main component — 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, Merced”. $45,721 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 Merced