Central Manitoulin property tax rate 2023

Central Manitoulin in short

$7,365 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,600 to Central Manitoulin council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.11 points since 2019, or $543 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,100 a month, home value $348,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Central Manitoulin has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2023, 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 Central Manitoulin's rate: Central Manitoulin council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Central Manitoulin has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.32% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Central Manitoulin's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$6,600$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalCentral Manitoulin council	1.32%	$6,600	90%
County or regionNone in Central Manitoulin	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	10%
Total	1.47%	$7,365	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, 2019–2023

Up every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.11 percentage points, from 1.36% to 1.47%. On a $500,000 home that is $543 a year more than in 2019.

20191.36%$6,822
20201.37%$6,872
20211.39%$6,963
20221.42%$7,111
20231.47%$7,365

Total residential rate, and the tax on a $500,000 home, for each year.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $351M to $371M, and the residential levy collected went from $5M to $5M. 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	1.20%	—	0.16%	1.36%	—	$6,822
2020	1.22%	—	0.15%	1.37%	+0.01 pts	$6,872
2021	1.24%	—	0.15%	1.39%	+0.02 pts	$6,963
2022	1.27%	—	0.15%	1.42%	+0.03 pts	$7,111
2023	1.32%	—	0.15%	1.47%	+0.05 pts	$7,365

Why are Central Manitoulin property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Central Manitoulin's total rate of 1.47% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 59% 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 $231,385 per household, 26% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $5,546 per household, 27% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$140), garbage and recycling (+$121) and running the municipality (+$34), and less on water and wastewater (−$746) and social and family services (−$164).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$140
Garbage and recycling+$121
Running the municipality+$34
Water and wastewater−$746
Social and family services−$164

What it costs to live in Central Manitoulin

Cost	Central Manitoulin	Ontario middle
Rent, per monththe middle rent, 2021	$1,100Higher than 71% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$348,000Lower than 61% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a home assessed at $500,0002023	$7,365Higher than 59% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	15.6%Higher than 53% of 400	15.0%
Household incomethe middle household, before tax, 2020	$70,000Lower than 81% 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 Central Manitoulin

The 5 places closest to Central Manitoulin 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
French River	1.13%	$5,640
Strong	1.22%	$6,113
Prince Edward County	1.26%	$6,278
St Joseph	1.26%	$6,297
Billings2024 rate	1.34%	$6,723
Central Manitoulin this page	1.47%	$7,365

Others in Manitoulin District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Central Manitoulin
Gordon-Barrie Island	1.09%	$5,458	−$1,907
Cockburn Island2024 rate	1.30%	$6,513	−$852
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634	−$731
Billings2024 rate	1.34%	$6,723	−$642
Northeastern Manitoulin & The Isl	1.35%	$6,773	−$592
Assiginack2024 rate	1.70%	$8,499	+$1,133
Tehkummah2022 rate	1.80%	$9,011	+$1,646
Gore Bay	2.14%	$10,719	+$3,353

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Central Manitoulin

All 6 property classes, 2023

Residential is one of 6 classes Central Manitoulin 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	1.2021	1.59%	—	0.88%	2.47%
Commercial	1.0308	1.36%	—	0.69%	2.05%
Multi-Residential	1	1.32%	—	0.15%	1.47%
Residential	1	1.32%	—	0.15%	1.47%
Farmland	0.25	0.33%	—	0.04%	0.37%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.33%	—	0.04%	0.37%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Central Manitoulin 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; 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 Central Manitoulin's 2023 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 169 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 51009, MAH 83613
Limits: These are the figures Central Manitoulin 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.

Central Manitoulin property tax rate, 2023

Higher than 59% of the 414 Ontario municipalities