Where your tax dollars go, line by line.
Aventura's adopted budget for October 2026 – September 2027 is $69.1 million. This site shows where that money comes from and what it pays for. Start with your own tax bill, then look at any fund, department or line item.
Adopted by the City Commission on September 15, 2026, after two public hearings. It takes effect October 1, 2026. Budget basics.
Searches departments, funds, capital projects, every line item, the budget notes and the plain-English glossary.
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What you pay the city
Aventura keeps only about 10 cents of every property-tax dollar you pay. The rest goes to Miami-Dade County, the public school system and regional districts. Enter your property's assessed value to see your share.
Your property and exemptions
Use the assessed value from your August TRIM notice, not the market value and not what you paid.
The calculator fills in the assessed value the Property Appraiser has on file, condo units included. Only the value is looked up, never the owner's name. You can also type any value below.
Other exemptions I qualify for
Most people need none of these. Each is a Florida exemption that stacks on top of the homestead exemption.
The senior exemption does not reduce the school-board, regional-district or Children's Trust portions of your bill, and Aventura has not adopted the separate long-term-residency version. Miami-Dade County has: for seniors who have lived in their home 25 years or more and meet the state's home-value and income limits, it removes the County's taxes. This estimate does not include it. Check with the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser to see whether you qualify.
This is an estimate, not a tax bill. It uses the adopted city tax rate of 1.7261 mills, or about $1.73 for every $1,000 of taxable value.
How this estimate is calculated
How Aventura compares
How Aventura's city tax rate compares
The ranking uses the Property Appraiser's proposed FY 2026/27 city rates for all 34 Miami-Dade municipalities and the unincorporated area.
What would another city charge on the same value?
Pick a jurisdiction to see its municipal tax on the taxable value from your calculator above, next to Aventura's.
The city-level tax rate, every Miami-Dade jurisdiction
City tax rates only, including any voter-approved debt. Lower means less tax per $1,000 of value.
Source: Miami-Dade Property Appraiser, 2026 Proposed Millage Rate TableWhat changed this year
The short version
Money out
Department budgets, to scale
Operating plus capital spending, all funds, FY 2026/27 adopted. Money set aside for future projects, debt payments and transfers between funds are left out. Tap or click a bar for details.
Source: budget book pp. 85–86; capital reserve p. 92One tower per city department, biggest first. Police, at $29.7 million, is nearly half of all department spending: more than the next seven departments combined. See all 13 departments Heights are compressed so small departments stay visible; the bars above are to scale. Tap a tower for its exact figure.
Money out
Where the money goes
The city's spending is shown two ways: what it buys and which department spends it, down to individual line items.
What the budget buys
All funds, FY 2026/27 adopted
Source: budget book p. 84Explore by department
Tap a department to see its budget, staffing and every line item.
Money in
Where the money comes from
The budget counts on $71.6 million coming in across all funds ($69.1 million after taking out money that just moves between city funds). Property taxes are the biggest single source, but two-thirds of the budget comes from somewhere else.
Revenue by source
All funds, FY 2026/27 adopted
Source: budget book p. 83Revenue by fund
Each fund is a separate pot of money with its own rules. Tap any fund to see what goes in and what comes out.
Source: budget book p. 81Building the city
The five-year capital plan
Beyond day-to-day operations, Aventura plans $24.6 million of capital projects through 2031, including drainage, technology, parks, vehicles and buildings. $4.9 million is budgeted for year one.
Planned spending by year and project type
Capital Improvement Program (CIP), FY 2026/27 – 2030/31
Source: budget book p. 293Who pays for it
5-year plan by funding source
Source: budget book p. 294Major General Fund purchases in FY 2026/27
General Fund items only, as the budget message lists them.
Source: budget book p. xviiiEvery project in the plan
Tap a project to see its year-by-year budget; the bold figure is its FY 2026/27 amount.
Source: budget book pp. 297–333Over time
How spending and staffing have changed
These charts compare this budget with the three years before it and track budgeted city positions since 2017/18.
Four years of total spending
All funds: two years of actual spending, the amended FY 2025/26 budget and the adopted FY 2026/27 budget.
Source: budget book p. 84A decade of city staffing
Budgeted positions by year. The Police Department has 134 of the 206, about two in three.
Source: budget book p. 87Learn the budget
Budget basics
Four things worth knowing about this year's budget.
Common questions
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What the budget words mean
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Download the data
Open data from this dashboard. Budget figures tie to the published budget book; other governments' tax rates come from the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser.