Asphodel-Norwood property tax rate 2025

Asphodel-Norwood in short

$6,992 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,022 to Asphodel-Norwood council, $2,206 to Peterborough County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.23 points since 2019, or $1,139 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,100 a month, home value $500,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Asphodel-Norwood has filed. Every municipality on this site is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 have filed 2025, and the other 131 are at their newest year, mostly 2024.

Who sets the rate

Three bodies set Asphodel-Norwood's rate: Asphodel-Norwood council at 0.80%, Peterborough County at 0.44%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 32% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,022$2,206$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalAsphodel-Norwood council	0.80%	$4,022	58%
County or regionPeterborough County	0.44%	$2,206	32%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.40%	$6,992	100%

Each rate is rounded to two decimals, so the parts can add up to 0.01 off the total.

How the rate has changed, 2019–2025

Up every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.23 percentage points, from 1.17% to 1.40%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,139 a year more than in 2019.

20191.17%$5,853
20201.18%$5,894
20211.19%$5,945
20221.21%$6,025
20231.24%$6,188
20241.31%$6,568
2025^*1.40%$6,992

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Asphodel-Norwood's own filing; 104 municipalities have not filed 2025 yet.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $417M to $512M, and the residential levy collected went from $5M to $7M. A rate rising while the base also grows means the budget grew faster than property values; a rate falling while the base grows usually means the opposite. Assessment is the figure on the MPAC notice, still based on 2016 values province-wide.

Year	Municipal	County or region	Education	Total	Change	On $500,000
2019	0.68%	0.32%	0.16%	1.17%	—	$5,853
2020	0.70%	0.33%	0.15%	1.18%	+0.01 pts	$5,894
2021	0.70%	0.34%	0.15%	1.19%	+0.01 pts	$5,945
2022	0.71%	0.34%	0.15%	1.21%	+0.02 pts	$6,025
2023	0.73%	0.36%	0.15%	1.24%	+0.03 pts	$6,188
2024	0.76%	0.40%	0.15%	1.31%	+0.08 pts	$6,568
2025*	0.80%	0.44%	0.15%	1.40%	+0.08 pts	$6,992

Why are Asphodel-Norwood property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Asphodel-Norwood's total rate of 1.40% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 50% of 414 municipalities. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $280,938 per household, about the same as the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $5,713 per household, 32% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on garbage and recycling (+$487), roads and bridges (+$461) and running the municipality (+$208), and less on water and wastewater (−$184) and planning and development (−$112).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Garbage and recycling+$487
Roads and bridges+$461
Running the municipality+$208
Water and wastewater−$184
Planning and development−$112

What it costs to live in Asphodel-Norwood

Cost	Asphodel-Norwood	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,100Higher than 71% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$500,000Higher than 60% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$6,992Higher than 50% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	14.3%Lower than 54% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$80,000Lower than 58% of 405	$84,000

Ontario has no official cost-of-living index for single towns. Statistics Canada’s consumer price index covers only Toronto, Ottawa and Thunder Bay here, and it measures change over time, not the gap between places. These are the costs published for each municipality: what renters paid and owners estimated in the 2021 Census, not today’s asking rents or sale prices.

Places like Asphodel-Norwood

The 5 places closest to Asphodel-Norwood on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.

Place	Newest rate	On $500,000
West Perth	1.26%	$6,301
Lucan Biddulph	1.32%	$6,624
Asphodel-Norwood this page	1.40%	$6,992
Plympton-Wyoming	1.42%	$7,077
Southwold	1.43%	$7,160
Shelburne	1.44%	$7,209

Others in Peterborough County

Municipalities that share Asphodel-Norwood's county or district. Rates compare most cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels.

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Asphodel-Norwood
Selwyn	0.87%	$4,343	−$2,650
North Kawartha2023 rate	0.89%	$4,428	−$2,564
Trent Lakes	1.01%	$5,055	−$1,937
Douro-Dummer	1.05%	$5,263	−$1,729
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen2024 rate	1.08%	$5,416	−$1,576
Otonabee-South Monaghan	1.26%	$6,289	−$704
Cavan Monaghan2024 rate	1.31%	$6,538	−$454
Peterborough	1.77%	$8,846	+$1,854

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Asphodel-Norwood

All 9 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 9 classes Asphodel-Norwood reported this year. The tax ratio is the multiple applied to the residential rate: a ratio of 1.7 on multi-residential means an apartment building pays 1.7× what a house pays on the same assessed value.

Class	Tax ratio	Municipal	County or region	Education	Total
Industrial	1.5432	1.24%	0.68%	0.88%	2.80%
Commercial	1.0986	0.88%	0.48%	0.88%	2.25%
Aggregate Extraction Property	1.255712	1.01%	0.55%	0.51%	2.07%
Pipeline	0.9386	0.75%	0.41%	0.88%	2.05%
Multi-Residential	1	0.80%	0.44%	0.15%	1.40%
New Multi-Residential	1	0.80%	0.44%	0.15%	1.40%
Residential	1	0.80%	0.44%	0.15%	1.40%
Farmland	0.25	0.20%	0.11%	0.04%	0.35%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.20%	0.11%	0.04%	0.35%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Asphodel-Norwood files with the Province of Ontario; population, rents and home values from Statistics Canada.

Every source, the method and the limits

Tax rates: Ontario Financial Information Return (FIR), 22 GPL — Municipal and School Board Taxation. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Municipal Act s.294(1). Years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025; retrieved 2026-10-11. Download the file
Spending, households: Financial Information Return Schedule 40 (consolidated expenses by function) and Schedule 02 (households and population).
Population: Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0155-01, Population estimates, July 1, by census subdivision. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Rent, home value, income: Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Rent is the median monthly shelter cost of renter households (rent plus any utilities they pay). The Ontario middle is the median across the municipalities with a published figure.
Method: Dollar figures are the rate times $500,000 of assessed value. Standing compares Asphodel-Norwood's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 206 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 15002, MAH 66615
Limits: These are the figures Asphodel-Norwood filed with the province. An individual bill can include area-specific charges and local improvement levies that a municipality-wide rate does not capture. Reference, not tax advice.

Asphodel-Norwood property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 50% of the 414 Ontario municipalities