Burbank, California · independent directory
Who carries the city tax base, and who only looks like they do.
Warner Bros. Discovery and The Walt Disney Company are the private campuses most likely to carry Burbank property tax and business-license tax. IKEA, Empire Center, Town Center, and the hotel cluster are the sales-tax and room-tax surface. The city does not publish the bills.
| Organization | Role | Industry | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warner Bros. Discovery | Private anchor | Studios and media | Largest employer on the City of Burbank July 2025 principal-employer table, at 8,230 jobs, 5.0 percent of the workforce that table uses as its denominator. Headquarters address pub… |
| The Walt Disney Company | Private anchor | Studios and media | Second-largest employer on the July 2025 city table, at 6,284 jobs, 3.8 percent of that table denominator. Headquarters address published by the Los Angeles Business Journal: 500 S… |
| IKEA Burbank | Retail sales | Retail | A city development agreement places the replacement store at 805 South San Fernando Boulevard. The city recorded a 2017 opening and described the building as 456,000 square feet, t… |
| Burbank Empire Center | Retail sales | Retail | Retail center at West Empire Avenue and North Victory Place. The city named it in the adopted development file for the former Lockheed site and again, with Town Center, Magnolia Pa… |
| Burbank Town Center | Retail sales | Retail | Indoor mall at 201 East Magnolia Boulevard. Wikipedia, used here only for the address and ownership statement, identifies Onni Group as owner and manager. The city lists the center… |
| Walmart | Retail sales | Retail | Tenth employer on the July 2025 city table, at 540 jobs, 0.3 percent. The ACFR does not print the store street address, so this record does not invent one. Walmart is a point-of-sa… |
| Magnolia Park | Retail sales | Retail | Retail district named by the city alongside Empire Center, Town Center, and Downtown. There is no single owner and no single remittance. The district is here because the city point… |
| Downtown Burbank | Retail sales | Retail | Retail and restaurant district named by the city as one of four major shopping areas. Sales tax is the sum of many small remitters. No individual restaurant bill is public.… |
| Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport | Lodging tax | Lodging | Hotel and convention center at 2500 North Hollywood Way, across from the airport, as listed by Ask Burbank. Room revenue inside the city is the base for transient occupancy tax. Th… |
| Residence Inn Burbank Downtown | Lodging tax | Lodging | Extended-stay hotel at 321 Ikea Way, as listed by Ask Burbank. A transient occupancy tax participant. Share of the 31.2 million dollar 2024 tourism figure is not published.… |
| Best Western Plus Media Center | Lodging tax | Lodging | Hotel at 3910 West Riverside Drive in the media district, as listed by Ask Burbank. Included as part of the lodging tax surface, not as a claimed top remitter.… |
| Nickelodeon Animation Studio | Private anchor | Studios and media | Eighth employer on the July 2025 city table, at 634 jobs, 0.4 percent. The animation studio occupies 231 West Olive Avenue. That street address is the studio published address and … |
| Netflix | Production services | Studios and media | Not on the July 2025 principal-employer top ten. The 2024-2028 strategic plan counted about 850 Burbank employees, and the Chamber page prints the same figure without an as-of date… |
| Entertainment Partners | Production services | Production services | Ninth employer on the July 2025 city table, at 579 jobs, 0.4 percent. Headquarters published by the company: 2950 North Hollywood Way, shared with Central Casting. Payroll and prod… |
| Cast & Crew | Production services | Production services | Seventh employer on the July 2025 city table, at 655 jobs, 0.4 percent. The ACFR does not print a street address, so this record does not invent one. The strategic plan described C… |
| Deluxe | Production services | Production services | Not on the July 2025 top ten. Older city tables list Deluxe Shared Services: 700 employees in the strategic plan, 611 on the Chamber page, 971 in the housing-element reprint. No st… |
| The Burbank Studios | Studio campus | Studio real estate | Studio campus at 3000 West Alameda Avenue. The city capital-improvement facts name the campus as part of the media cluster. Stages are often leased, so the property-tax payer is th… |
The airport moves visitors. The hospital, the school district, the city, and the university employ thousands and sit mostly outside the property-tax roll.
| Organization | Role | Industry | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood Burbank Airport | Activity generator | Aviation | Third employer on the July 2025 city table, at 3,106 jobs, 1.9 percent. The terminal address used by the city economic development report is 2627 North Hollywood Way. The airport i… |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Public or exempt | Healthcare | Fourth employer on the July 2025 city table, at 2,542 jobs, 1.5 percent. A nonprofit hospital. Much of a nonprofit hospital campus is outside the secured property-tax roll, so empl… |
| City of Burbank | Public or exempt | City government | Sixth employer on the FY2024-25 ACFR principal-employer table, at 1,564 jobs, 0.9 percent. The July 2025 community risk assessment prints 1,536 for the city. Both city figures are … |
| Burbank Water and Power | Public or exempt | City government | Municipal utility and a city enterprise. Utility users tax is a General Fund tax on utility charges and is collected on BWP bills from customers across the city. BWP is the collect… |
| Burbank Unified School District | Public or exempt | Education | Fifth employer on the July 2025 city table, at 2,300 jobs, 1.4 percent. District office at 1900 West Olive Avenue. Public-school property is generally exempt. The district is a pri… |
| Woodbury University | Public or exempt | Education | Named in the city housing-element narrative as an employer that draws talent. Not on the July 2025 principal-employer top ten, and no employee count from that table is available, s… |