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Rates & fees

Rates & fees

Rates are the main way residents fund the council. Each year an independent regulator (IPART) sets a 'rate peg' — the maximum percentage the council can lift its total rates income. Oberon rates land in five categories (Business, Farmland, Residential, Rural Residential and Non-Urban), each with its own base amount plus a rate in the dollar applied to your land value. Here's the current figure, how it compares across NSW, and the things that actually change your bill.

New to these terms? Read them in plain English
Rate peg
The cap on how much a council's TOTAL rates income can rise this year.
Core peg
The rate peg before the population top-up — the part driven by rising costs.
Population factor
An extra slice of the rate peg for fast-growing councils.
Special Rate Variation (SRV)
Permission for a council to raise rates by more than the peg.
Land valuation
Your land's value, set by the state, used to split the rates bill between properties.
Pensioner rebate
A discount on rates for eligible pensioners.
Domestic waste charge
A separate annual fee for your bins — NOT part of the rate peg.
IPART
Sets the rate peg and reviews council pricing.
See the full explainer, with formulas →

Rates at a glance

3.3%Set by IPART — a core peg of 3.0% plus small council-specific adjustment factors. It caps the council's total rates income, not your individual bill. Council's adopted 2026/27 Statement of Revenue Policy applies the same 3.3%.
5.4%IPART's rate peg for Oberon for 2025–26 — a base peg of 3.6% plus population and other adjustment factors.
~$975 / year (2024–25)About 19% below the NSW average of ~$1,203 (OLG data). This reflects land values and Oberon's rating structure.
2026–27 residential rate
Base $363 plus 0.00271176 of your land valueOther categories in 2026–27: Farmland base $384 at 0.00156511; Rural Residential base $369 at 0.00203149; Non-Urban base $449 at 0.00213704; Business base $459 at 0.00462119. Land values come from the Valuer General.
Domestic waste charge (2026–27)
$280.35 per 240-litre bin per year; vacant land $50Charged only where the weekly kerbside service is available. The same $280.35 applies to non-domestic services. 2025–26 was $265.50.
When rates are due
In full by 30 September, or four instalments: 31 Aug, 30 Nov, 28 Feb, 31 MayCouncil also offers eNotices for electronic rate notices.
Overdue interest (2026–27)
9.5% per annumA NSW-wide maximum set annually by the Minister for Local Government under s566(3) of the Local Government Act — the Reserve Bank cash rate plus 6%, rounded to the nearest half per cent. Council applies the same figure in its 2026/27 Statement of Revenue Policy.
Concessions & hardship
Council manages hardship cases individually and has a Pensioner Concessions PolicyCouncil's 2026/27 rates material offers flexible payment plans and hardship support, and asks ratepayers to make contact early. Pensioner Concessions Policy 2203 is one of Council's published policies — check eligibility with Council on (02) 6329 8100.
Special rate variation (SRV)
None currently in forceOberon's long-standing Town Improvement Levy — raised on every rateable assessment inside the gazetted Oberon township since 1934, and worth $555,722 in 2023–24 — was discontinued by Council resolution on 19 March 2024 after a 90-day community consultation. From 2024–25 that revenue was redistributed into the base rate across the whole LGA, estimated at about $141 per assessment. Council stated the change generated no additional rates income, because total rates income is capped by IPART.

The rate peg limits the council's total rates income, not each household's bill. How your individual rates change depends mostly on how your land value moved relative to other properties at the latest revaluation, and on which rating category your property falls into.

Sources — check it yourself

Figures are current as at the dates shown and may change — always confirm with the linked source. See the notice at the bottom of the page for full details and how to report a correction.