City · Eastern Ontario · single-tier
At 1.1779%, Belleville sits 121 of 386 Ontario municipalities ranked cheapest to most expensive — 13% below the provincial median of 1.3516%. On a $500,000 assessment that works out to $5,890 a year, or $491 a month.
Belleville has already filed 2025: 1.2270% total, +4.17% against 2024 — $6,135 on a $500,000 assessment. Rankings on this site still use 2024, because only 282 of 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far and a partial year would make every rank meaningless.
Belleville is a single-tier municipality. There is no county or region collecting a separate levy on top, so the municipal rate of 1.0249% already covers services that a township elsewhere would pay a county to provide. That is why the upper-tier column below reads zero, and why comparing Belleville's municipal rate directly against a township's municipal rate understates what the township actually pays.
| Portion | Set by | Rate | On $500,000 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal | Belleville council | 1.0249% | $5,125 | 87.0% |
| Education | Province of Ontario | 0.1530% | $765 | 13.0% |
| Total | 1.1779% | $5,890 | 100% |
Since 2019 the total rate here has risen 7.9%. Over the same period the assessment base moved from $4,026M to $4,474M, so the levy collected grew from $43M to $53M. 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.
| Year | Municipal | Upper-tier | Education | Total | Change | On $500,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 0.9303% | — | 0.1610% | 1.0913% | — | $5,457 |
| 2020 | 0.9315% | — | 0.1530% | 1.0845% | -0.6% | $5,422 |
| 2021 | 0.9360% | — | 0.1530% | 1.0890% | +0.4% | $5,445 |
| 2022 | 0.9481% | — | 0.1530% | 1.1011% | +1.1% | $5,506 |
| 2023 | 0.9825% | — | 0.1530% | 1.1355% | +3.1% | $5,677 |
| 2024 | 1.0249% | — | 0.1530% | 1.1779% | +3.7% | $5,890 |
| 2025 | 1.0740% | — | 0.1530% | 1.2270% | +4.2% | $6,135 |
Rates only compare cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels. These are the municipalities most directly comparable to Belleville, which share the same upper-tier government.
| Municipality | Total rate | On $500,000 | vs Belleville | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faraday | 1.3021% | $6,511 | +$621 | 167 |
| Tudor and Cashel | 1.3285% | $6,643 | +$753 | 180 |
| Tweed | 1.3338% | $6,669 | +$779 | 184 |
| Tyendinaga | 1.3460% | $6,730 | +$841 | 191 |
| Hastings Highlands | 1.3571% | $6,785 | +$896 | 200 |
| Marmora and Lake | 1.4281% | $7,141 | +$1,251 | 229 |
| Quinte West | 1.4417% | $7,208 | +$1,319 | 236 |
| Limerick | 1.4485% | $7,243 | +$1,353 | 239 |
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Residential is one of 12 classes Belleville reported this year. The tax ratio column 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 | Upper-tier | Education | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial | 2.4 | 2.4598% | — | 0.8800% | 3.3398% |
| Large Industrial | 2.4 | 2.4598% | — | 0.8800% | 3.3398% |
| Commercial | 1.919122 | 1.9669% | — | 0.8800% | 2.8469% |
| Office Building | 1.919122 | 1.9669% | — | 0.8800% | 2.8469% |
| Parking Lot | 1.919122 | 1.9669% | — | 0.8800% | 2.8469% |
| Shopping Centre | 1.919122 | 1.9669% | — | 0.8800% | 2.8469% |
| Multi-Residential | 2 | 2.0498% | — | 0.1530% | 2.2028% |
| Pipeline | 1.23398 | 1.2647% | — | 0.8800% | 2.1447% |
| New Multi-Residential | 1 | 1.0249% | — | 0.1530% | 1.1779% |
| Residential | 1 | 1.0249% | — | 0.1530% | 1.1779% |
| Farmland | 0.25 | 0.2562% | — | 0.0382% | 0.2945% |
| Managed Forest | 0.25 | 0.2562% | — | 0.0382% | 0.2945% |
Belleville's total rate of 1.1779% sits 13% below the provincial median, which is not the same as a small bill. A large assessment base — $4.47B here — funds the same services at a lower percentage, so the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.
Belleville’s total residential tax rate is 1.18%, 23% below the middle single-tier municipality (1.53%).
Homes here carry $190,117 of assessed value per household, close to the middle ($182,514).
It spends $7,820 per household in total, 8% above the middle ($7,212). The biggest gaps above the middle: police (+$866), parks and recreation (+$345), fire (+$328). Below: roads and bridges (−$419), running the municipality (−$177).
Across 154 single-tier municipalities, rates move more with home values (rank correlation -0.82) than with spending per household (0.57). That is a pattern, not proof of cause.
Closest on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among municipalities of the same tier.
Belleville reported a residential assessment base of $4B for 2024 and collected $53M in residential property tax against it. Assessment is the figure on the MPAC notice, still based on 2016 valuations province-wide, which is why it usually differs from what a house would sell for today.
These are the figures Belleville 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.
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