Calvin property tax rate 2024

Calvin in short

$7,266 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,501 to Calvin council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.20 points since 2019, or $1,022 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Calvin 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 Calvin's rate: Calvin council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Calvin has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.30% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Calvin's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$6,501$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalCalvin council	1.30%	$6,501	89%
County or regionNone in Calvin	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.45%	$7,266	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.20 percentage points, from 1.25% to 1.45%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,022 a year more than in 2019.

20191.25%$6,244
20201.15%$5,740
20211.21%$6,038
20221.27%$6,334
20231.34%$6,696
20241.45%$7,266

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 $53M to $59M, and the residential levy collected went from $1M to $1M. 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	1.09%	—	0.16%	1.25%	—	$6,244
2020	0.99%	—	0.15%	1.15%	−0.10 pts	$5,740
2021	1.05%	—	0.15%	1.21%	+0.06 pts	$6,038
2022	1.11%	—	0.15%	1.27%	+0.06 pts	$6,334
2023	1.19%	—	0.15%	1.34%	+0.07 pts	$6,696
2024	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.45%	+0.11 pts	$7,266

Why are Calvin property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Calvin's total rate of 1.45% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher 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 $196,635 per household, 7% more than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $10,066 per household, 33% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on social and family services (+$2,566), running the municipality (+$2,034) and roads and bridges (+$1,347), and less on parks and recreation (−$324) and police (−$95).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social and family services+$2,566
Running the municipality+$2,034
Roads and bridges+$1,347
Parks and recreation−$324
Police−$95

What it costs to live in Calvin

Cost	Calvin	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$320,000Lower than 70% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$7,266Higher than 57% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	16.3%Higher than 60% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$72,000Lower than 76% 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 Calvin

The 5 places closest to Calvin 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
Latchford	1.28%	$6,413
Morley	1.41%	$7,055
Calvin this page	1.45%	$7,266
Nairn and Hyman	1.64%	$8,209
Tehkummah2022 rate	1.80%	$9,011
Matachewan2024 rate	1.82%	$9,091

Others in Nipissing District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Calvin
Temagami	1.13%	$5,633	−$1,633
South Algonquin	1.14%	$5,689	−$1,578
East Ferris	1.17%	$5,874	−$1,392
Papineau-Cameron	1.35%	$6,763	−$503
West Nipissing2024 rate	1.35%	$6,765	−$502
Chisholm2024 rate	1.42%	$7,113	−$153
Bonfield	1.50%	$7,504	+$238
North Bay	1.75%	$8,761	+$1,494

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Calvin

All 6 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 6 classes Calvin 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	2.558522	3.33%	—	0.88%	4.21%
Pipeline	2.3125999999999998	3.01%	—	0.88%	3.89%
Commercial	1.3534	1.76%	—	0.60%	2.36%
Residential	1	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.45%
Farmland	0.25	0.33%	—	0.04%	0.36%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.33%	—	0.04%	0.36%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Calvin 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 Calvin's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 176 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 48022, MAH 85604
Limits: These are the figures Calvin 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.

Calvin property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 57% of the 414 Ontario municipalities