Municipality in Southwest Ontario, inside Bruce County
Brockton property tax rate, 2024
1.67%of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year
$8,375 a yearon a $500,000 home, or about $698 a month
Higher than 76% of the 414 Ontario municipalities
Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Further right is higher.
Brockton 1.67%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
Brockton
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
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Brockton
Brockton in short
$8,375 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,103 to Brockton council, $2,507 to Bruce County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.31 points since 2019, or $1,545 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $930 a month, home value $436,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.
Brockton 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
Three bodies set Brockton's rate: Brockton council at 1.02%, Bruce County at
0.50%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is
30% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.
$5,103$2,507$765
Portion
Rate
On $500,000
Share
MunicipalBrockton council
1.02%
$5,103
61%
County or regionBruce County
0.50%
$2,507
30%
EducationProvince of Ontario
0.15%
$765
9%
Total
1.67%
$8,375
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 every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.31 percentage points, from 1.37% to 1.67%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,545 a year more than in 2019.
20191.37%$6,830
20201.40%$6,996
20211.43%$7,136
20221.48%$7,411
20231.58%$7,911
20241.67%$8,375
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 $821M to
$903M, and the residential levy collected went from $11M
to $15M. 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
0.82%
0.39%
0.16%
1.37%
—
$6,830
2020
0.85%
0.40%
0.15%
1.40%
+0.03 pts
$6,996
2021
0.86%
0.41%
0.15%
1.43%
+0.03 pts
$7,136
2022
0.89%
0.44%
0.15%
1.48%
+0.05 pts
$7,411
2023
0.96%
0.47%
0.15%
1.58%
+0.10 pts
$7,911
2024
1.02%
0.50%
0.15%
1.67%
+0.09 pts
$8,375
Why are Brockton property taxes so high?
Brockton's total rate of 1.67% is 0.28 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: $903.1M of taxable residential value funds $15.1M in levy here.
Home values
Homes here are assessed at $202,134 per household, 26% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.
Spending
It spends $5,369 per household, 24% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on social and family services (+$468), roads and bridges (+$246) and police (+$218), and less on water and wastewater (−$210) and snow and ice (−$74).
← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social and family services+$468
Roads and bridges+$246
Police+$218
Water and wastewater−$210
Snow and ice−$74
More on why
Who gets the money
Of that rate, 0.50% goes to Bruce County and 0.15% to schools; 1.02% is set by Brockton itself.
Provincial money
Social services and social housing are partly paid for by provincial transfers, so they do not map one-to-one onto the tax bill.
Across Ontario
Across the 241 towns inside a county or region, the tax rate follows home values much more closely than spending: where homes are worth more, rates tend to be lower (rank correlation −0.70 for home values, 0.45 for spending). A pattern, not proof of cause.
What it costs to live in Brockton
Cost
Brockton
Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021
$930Lower than 59% of 354
$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021
$436,000Higher than 54% of 412
$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024
$8,375Higher than 76% of 414
$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021
14.1%Lower than 55% of 400
15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020
$84,000The same as the middle
$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 Brockton
The 5 places closest to Brockton on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.
Residential is one of 9 classes Brockton 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
1.7477
1.78%
0.88%
0.88%
3.54%
Large Industrial
1.7477
1.78%
0.88%
0.88%
3.54%
Commercial
1.2331
1.26%
0.62%
0.88%
2.76%
Shopping Centre
1.2331
1.26%
0.62%
0.88%
2.76%
Pipeline
1.0164
1.04%
0.51%
0.88%
2.43%
Multi-Residential
1
1.02%
0.50%
0.15%
1.67%
Residential
1
1.02%
0.50%
0.15%
1.67%
Farmland
0.25
0.26%
0.13%
0.04%
0.42%
Managed Forest
0.25
0.26%
0.13%
0.04%
0.42%
Sources and method
Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Brockton 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 Brockton's 2024 total
residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 100 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 41030, MAH 41622
Limits
These are the figures Brockton 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.