Sales tax in Elgin, IL

ZIP codes in Elgin

8 on file, every one crossing the city line. Each has its own page.

8 ZIP codes crossing the city line

Part of each of these lies outside Elgin. An address in one may be taxed at a neighbour's rate instead, and the figure shown is the most likely one across the whole ZIP code.

Who levies sales tax across Elgin's ZIP codes

Each government below levies its own share, but not all of them reach every address: the ZIP codes covering Elgin reach into more than one county and city, and an address pays only the shares whose boundary it falls inside.

No total is shown because more than one county and city is listed. An address falls inside only one of each, so these shares are alternatives rather than a stack, and adding them all up would give a figure nobody pays.

What can change the tax you pay in Elgin, IL

• ZIP codes shared with a neighbour. 7 of Elgin's 8 ZIP codes are also reached by Gilberts, South Elgin, Bartlett and Campton Hills and 13 other places, so an address in one of them can owe a neighbour's rate instead of Elgin's.
• Your exact address. Kane County, Cook County, Dekalb County and Mchenry County cover only part of this area, so an address inside them is taxed differently from one just outside. A ZIP code is a postal delivery route and was never drawn to follow tax boundaries.
• What you are buying. Categories are not taxed alike. The calculator switches between general merchandise, prepared food and lodging, which are the categories we hold rates for here.

How Elgin compares with the rest of Illinois

Elgin's ~8.75% is above what most ZIP codes carry in Illinois. Of the state's 1,568 ZIP codes with a figure, 91 land on the same one, 1,152 carry a lower figure and 325 a higher one. Across Illinois the combined rate runs from 6.25% to 11.25%. See every city in Illinois.

Counted from ZIP-code figures. A tilde marks a band where some ZIP codes cross a tax boundary and are counted at their most likely rate.

Why you can rely on these figures

Published rates

State and local rates compiled from the tax authorities that levy them.

Every figure sourced

See the jurisdiction breakdown and the document each rate came from.

No signup

Use the calculator immediately. Nothing to create, nothing to install.

Missing means missing

Where a rate is not verified we say so instead of showing a short total.