Callander property tax rate 2024

Callander in short

$6,762 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,997 to Callander council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.19 points since 2019, or $939 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $920 a month, home value $400,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Callander 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 Callander's rate: Callander council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Callander has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.20% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Callander's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,997$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalCallander council	1.20%	$5,997	89%
County or regionNone in Callander	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.35%	$6,762	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 0.19 percentage points, from 1.16% to 1.35%. On a $500,000 home that is $939 a year more than in 2019.

20191.16%$5,824
20201.17%$5,828
20211.18%$5,916
20221.20%$6,017
20231.30%$6,475
20241.35%$6,762

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 $517M to $543M, and the residential levy collected went from $6M 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	1.00%	—	0.16%	1.16%	—	$5,824
2020	1.01%	—	0.15%	1.17%	+0.00 pts	$5,828
2021	1.03%	—	0.15%	1.18%	+0.02 pts	$5,916
2022	1.05%	—	0.15%	1.20%	+0.02 pts	$6,017
2023	1.14%	—	0.15%	1.30%	+0.09 pts	$6,475
2024	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.35%	+0.06 pts	$6,762

Why are Callander property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Callander's total rate of 1.35% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 57% 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 $294,653 per household, 61% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $4,818 per household, 36% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on libraries (+$101), garbage and recycling (+$96) and roads and bridges (+$34), and less on running the municipality (−$645) and water and wastewater (−$370).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Libraries+$101
Garbage and recycling+$96
Roads and bridges+$34
Running the municipality−$645
Water and wastewater−$370

What it costs to live in Callander

Cost	Callander	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$920Lower than 62% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$400,000The same as the middle	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$6,762Lower than 57% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	13.8%Lower than 59% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$101,000Higher than 78% 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 Callander

The 5 places closest to Callander 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
Neebing	1.04%	$5,207
Alberton	1.13%	$5,640
Oliver Paipoonge2024 rate	1.19%	$5,960
Callander this page	1.35%	$6,762
Temiskaming Shores	1.41%	$7,050
Laird	1.54%	$7,692

Others in Parry Sound District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Callander
The Archipelago	0.41%	$2,051	−$4,712
Seguin	0.59%	$2,926	−$3,836
Whitestone2024 rate	0.72%	$3,614	−$3,148
Carling	0.74%	$3,712	−$3,050
McKellar	0.78%	$3,903	−$2,859
McDougall	0.83%	$4,149	−$2,613
Armour	0.96%	$4,804	−$1,959
Perry	0.97%	$4,839	−$1,923

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Callander

All 8 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 8 classes Callander 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	1.348522	1.62%	—	0.88%	2.50%
Pipeline	1.11157	1.33%	—	0.86%	2.20%
Commercial	1.09863	1.32%	—	0.88%	2.20%
Multi-Residential	1.206066	1.45%	—	0.15%	1.60%
New Multi-Residential	1	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.35%
Residential	1	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.35%
Farmland	0.25	0.30%	—	0.04%	0.34%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.30%	—	0.04%	0.34%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Callander 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 Callander's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 237 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 49066, MAH 86607
Limits: These are the figures Callander 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.

Callander property tax rate, 2024

Lower than 57% of the 414 Ontario municipalities