Property tax in Beauvais in 2026: 57,20 %, and almost all of it comes from the town hall

1. What is the property tax rate in Beauvais in 2026?

A property tax notice adds up lines voted by different authorities. The Beauvais case is simple to read, because the town takes up almost all the space.

2. Why is almost all of your notice voted by the town hall?

It is the most interesting feature of taxation in Beauvais, and it is rarely noted. In most of the towns we follow, the debate on property tax quickly turns into a sharing of responsibility: the town hall freezes its rate, the inter-municipal authority or the joint board raises its own, and the bill climbs without any elected representative feeling concerned.

In Beauvais, that mechanism does not exist. The table below compares the structure of the notice in three towns of the Oise.

Creil illustrates the contrast perfectly. Its municipality votes a rate more than eight points below that of Beauvais, but a resident of Creil pays more in total than a resident of Beauvais at an identical rental value, because its inter-municipal authority levies more than twelve additional points.

That readability has a downside for the town hall: it alone carries a very high level of rate, with no way of passing responsibility elsewhere. Franck Pia was re-elected mayor in the second round of the municipal elections, on 22 March 2026, with 47,34 % of the vote (8 165 votes) ahead of Roxane Lundy (39,29 %) and Claire Marais-Beuil (13,37 %), on a turnout of 50,23 %. The 2026 rate will be settled by that new council at the vote on the initial budget: it is those minutes, and those alone, that will be authoritative.

3. Where does Beauvais stand among the large French cities?

The table compares municipal rates alone, the line each town council votes, in order to reason on an identical basis. The overall rate of a notice also depends on the inter-municipal level, which varies widely from one territory to another.

One point of honesty: this ranking covers a sample of large cities, not the 34 000 French municipalities. More than a thousand small municipalities show rates above 57 %, in particular in the Aude, the Gers and the Calvados. Measured against towns of more than 50 000 inhabitants, on the other hand, the level in Beauvais is clearly in the upper part of the table.

To place that level, you can read our analyses of property tax in Grenoble, of the situation in Amiens, of the reading in Caen and of the rise recorded in Calais.

4. Does a record rate make a record bill?

That is the point the local debate often forgets. A high rate applied to a low base does not produce the same sum as a moderate rate applied to a high base. In Paris, the municipal rate is 20,50 %, that is nearly three times less than in Beauvais, but rental values in Paris are on another scale entirely.

These reconstructions are anchored on real neighbourhoods of Beauvais and do not replace your tax notice. The average price of a flat stands at 1 817 €/m² in 2026 (DVF data, the French notarised sales database, processed by Immover, 2024-2025 transactions), with a wide gap between Jeanne Hachette, at 2 407 €/m², and Argentine, at 1 120 €/m².

5. Simulator: what the Beauvais rate changes on your notice

6. Why does Beauvais tax vacancy rather than second homes?

The comparison with tourist towns is instructive. On the coast or in resorts, the available tax lever is the surcharge on second homes, because these take up a massive share of the stock and weigh on housing for permanent residents. In Beauvais, that lever would bring in nothing and is not open.

That last figure changes the political reading of the rate. In Beauvais, only 35 % of the households occupying their main residence own it: close to two out of three are tenants. Property tax is therefore not paid directly by the majority of residents, even if it feeds indirectly into rents and into the return of landlords.

The council tax on vacant homes covers homes that are habitable but unoccupied for more than a year. It aims to bring a dormant stock back onto the market, in a town where close to one home in ten is empty. If you hold an unoccupied property in Beauvais, it is a line to check on your notice.

7. What impact on the value of your property?

Three observations to place the real effect of taxation on your property.

1. The effect is concentrated on landlords. With 62 % of tenants among main residences, a large part of the Beauvais stock is held by landlords, for whom property tax is a non-recoverable charge that directly cuts into the net return. That is where the level of the rate is really paid.

2. The tax to price ratio is unfavourable. On a market below 2 000 €/m², every euro of property tax weighs more against the capital invested than on a market at 4 000 €/m². That is the real competitive disadvantage of Beauvais against Compiègne or the municipalities of the Oise turned towards Paris.

3. The neighbourhood always weighs more than the rate. Between Jeanne Hachette and Argentine, the gap in price per square metre exceeds 1 280 €, that is more than double. No municipal tax decision produces an effect of that scale on the value of a home.

To place your property precisely, see our dedicated page on property prices in Beauvais, detailed neighbourhood by neighbourhood from real transactions.