Development fees per home in Orange County (unincorporated)

Fees by category click a slice

$37,315

3 fees

Every fee, and when it is due

Fee	Category	How it’s charged	Due	Amount
Road fee programs (areas of benefit)standard rateOC PW	Transportation	per home	Building permit	$19,650
School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Capistrano USD	Schools	$5.38 per sq ft	Not yet recorded	$10,760
TCA Major Thoroughfare & Bridge Fee ProgramFoothill/Eastern Zone ATCA	Transportation	per home	Building permit	$6,905
Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot				$37,315

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 Orange County (unincorporated).

Housing and in-lieu options

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

Confirmed absences

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

Fire and public safety impact feeFireno fee

Inclusionary housing in-lieu feeHousingno fee

Habitat mitigation fee (NCCP)Habitatno fee

Regional transportation impact fee (OCTA)Transportationno 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.

Rancho Mission Viejo CFDs - RATES DELIBERATELY WITHHELDPlan areanot retrieved

Drainage / flood control fee - UNRESOLVED, the Codified Ordinances were not readDrainagenot retrieved

Local Park Code in-lieu feeParksnot retrieved

Independent water district capacity feesWaternot retrieved

What we have, and what we don’t

4 of the 8 kinds of fee a new home normally pays are on file for Orange 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 fee exists but applies only inside a named plan area or district, so a home outside them pays nothing here.plan area only

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

DrainageA 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.0 of 3

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 Orange County (unincorporated)3 in the figure, and 9 more checked and found not to apply, not charged here, or with no amount we could find12

Choices with no general optionTCA Major Thoroughfare & Bridge Fee Program — 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, Orange County (unincorporated)”. $37,315 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 Orange County (unincorporated)