Chapleau property tax rate 2024

Chapleau in short

$16,923 a year on a $500,000 home: $16,158 to Chapleau council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.35 points since 2019, or $1,745 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $800 a month, home value $125,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Chapleau 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 Chapleau's rate: Chapleau council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Chapleau has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 3.23% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Chapleau's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$16,158

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalChapleau council	3.23%	$16,158	95%
County or regionNone in Chapleau	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	5%
Total	3.38%	$16,923	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 0.35 percentage points, from 3.04% to 3.38%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,745 a year more than in 2019.

20193.04%$15,179
20202.99%$14,935
20213.06%$15,288
20223.14%$15,724
20233.31%$16,528
20243.38%$16,923

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 $71M to $72M, and the residential levy collected went from $2M to $2M. 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	2.87%	—	0.16%	3.04%	—	$15,179
2020	2.83%	—	0.15%	2.99%	−0.05 pts	$14,935
2021	2.90%	—	0.15%	3.06%	+0.07 pts	$15,288
2022	2.99%	—	0.15%	3.14%	+0.09 pts	$15,724
2023	3.15%	—	0.15%	3.31%	+0.16 pts	$16,528
2024	3.23%	—	0.15%	3.38%	+0.08 pts	$16,923

Why are Chapleau property taxes so high?

Chapleau's total rate of 3.38% is 1.99 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: $72.5M of taxable residential value funds $2.5M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $62,436 per household, 66% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $6,577 per household, 13% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on running the municipality (+$270), garbage and recycling (+$234) and parks and recreation (+$159), and less on roads and bridges (−$389) and social and family services (−$285).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality+$270
Garbage and recycling+$234
Parks and recreation+$159
Roads and bridges−$389
Social and family services−$285

What it costs to live in Chapleau

Cost	Chapleau	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$800Lower than 78% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$125,000Lower than 96% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$16,923Higher than 98% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	7.1%Lower than 94% 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 Chapleau

The 5 places closest to Chapleau 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
Blind River	2.39%	$11,961
Wawa	3.03%	$15,173
Chapleau this page	3.38%	$16,923
Atikokan2024 rate	3.83%	$19,158
Schreiber2023 rate	5.01%	$25,040
Manitouwadge2023 rate	6.85%	$34,240

Others in Sudbury District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Chapleau
Killarney	1.08%	$5,384	−$11,539
French River	1.13%	$5,640	−$11,284
Markstay-Warren2022 rate	1.37%	$6,863	−$10,061
Baldwin	1.39%	$6,964	−$9,960
St-Charles2024 rate	1.58%	$7,916	−$9,008
Nairn and Hyman	1.64%	$8,209	−$8,715
Sables-Spanish Rivers	1.66%	$8,287	−$8,637
Espanola	1.90%	$9,516	−$7,408

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Chapleau

All 6 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 6 classes Chapleau 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	2.436186	7.87%	—	0.88%	8.75%
Commercial	1.428051	4.62%	—	0.88%	5.50%
Parking Lot	1.428051	4.62%	—	0.88%	5.50%
Multi-Residential	1.530722	4.95%	—	0.15%	5.10%
Residential	1	3.23%	—	0.15%	3.38%
Farmland	0.25	0.81%	—	0.04%	0.85%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Chapleau 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 Chapleau's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 8 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 52092, MAH 88606
Limits: These are the figures Chapleau 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.

Chapleau property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 98% of the 414 Ontario municipalities