Assiginack property tax rate 2024

Assiginack in short

$8,499 a year on a $500,000 home: $7,734 to Assiginack council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.02 points since 2019, or $123 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $650 a month, home value $300,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Assiginack has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2024, the newest year it has filed. Every municipality is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 of the 414 have filed 2025.

Who sets the rate

Two bodies set Assiginack's rate: Assiginack council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Assiginack has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.55% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Assiginack's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$7,734$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalAssiginack council	1.55%	$7,734	91%
County or regionNone in Assiginack	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	9%
Total	1.70%	$8,499	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, 2019–2024

Up 0.02 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.02 percentage points, from 1.68% to 1.70%. On a $500,000 home that is $123 a year more than in 2019.

20191.68%$8,375
20201.67%$8,335
20211.67%$8,335
20221.67%$8,335
20231.67%$8,335
20241.70%$8,499

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $170M to $179M, and the residential levy collected went from $3M to $3M. 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	1.51%	—	0.16%	1.68%	—	$8,375
2020	1.51%	—	0.15%	1.67%	−0.01 pts	$8,335
2021	1.51%	—	0.15%	1.67%	+0.00 pts	$8,335
2022	1.51%	—	0.15%	1.67%	+0.00 pts	$8,335
2023	1.51%	—	0.15%	1.67%	+0.00 pts	$8,335
2024	1.55%	—	0.15%	1.70%	+0.03 pts	$8,499

Why are Assiginack property taxes so high?

Assiginack's total rate of 1.70% is 0.30 percentage points above the provincial middle (1.40%). A rate that high usually means the assessment base is small relative to what the budget must cover: $178.8M of taxable residential value funds $3.0M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $399,894 per household, 118% more than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $11,460 per household, 52% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$1,446), water and wastewater (+$1,120) and parks and recreation (+$805), and less on running the municipality (−$562).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$1,446
Water and wastewater+$1,120
Parks and recreation+$805
Running the municipality−$562

What it costs to live in Assiginack

Cost	Assiginack	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$650Lower than 95% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$300,000Lower than 70% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$8,499Higher than 77% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.9%Lower than 67% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$73,500Lower than 73% 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 Assiginack

The 5 places closest to Assiginack on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among places with no county above them.

Place	Newest rate	On $500,000
Harley	1.30%	$6,493
Tarbutt	1.32%	$6,605
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634
Nairn and Hyman	1.64%	$8,209
Assiginack this page	1.70%	$8,499
Johnson	1.97%	$9,874

Others in Manitoulin District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Assiginack
Gordon-Barrie Island	1.09%	$5,458	−$3,040
Cockburn Island2024 rate	1.30%	$6,513	−$1,986
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634	−$1,865
Billings2024 rate	1.34%	$6,723	−$1,776
Northeastern Manitoulin & The Isl	1.35%	$6,773	−$1,726
Central Manitoulin2023 rate	1.47%	$7,365	−$1,133
Tehkummah2022 rate	1.80%	$9,011	+$513
Gore Bay	2.14%	$10,719	+$2,220

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Assiginack

All 6 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 6 classes Assiginack 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
Commercial	0.95	1.47%	—	0.84%	2.31%
Industrial	0.77	1.19%	—	0.68%	1.87%
Multi-Residential	1	1.55%	—	0.15%	1.70%
Residential	1	1.55%	—	0.15%	1.70%
Farmland	0.25	0.39%	—	0.04%	0.42%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.39%	—	0.04%	0.42%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Assiginack 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; 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 Assiginack's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 95 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 51011, MAH 83601
Limits: These are the figures Assiginack 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.

Assiginack property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 77% of the 414 Ontario municipalities