Chisholm property tax rate 2024

Chisholm in short

$7,113 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,348 to Chisholm council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.04 points since 2019, or $176 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Chisholm 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 Chisholm's rate: Chisholm council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Chisholm has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.27% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Chisholm's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$6,348$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalChisholm council	1.27%	$6,348	89%
County or regionNone in Chisholm	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.42%	$7,113	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 0.04 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.04 percentage points, from 1.39% to 1.42%. On a $500,000 home that is $176 a year more than in 2019.

20191.39%$6,937
20201.36%$6,779
20211.36%$6,779
20221.36%$6,779
20231.37%$6,872
20241.42%$7,113

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 $131M to $146M, 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	1.23%	—	0.16%	1.39%	—	$6,937
2020	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.36%	−0.03 pts	$6,779
2021	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.36%	+0.00 pts	$6,779
2022	1.20%	—	0.15%	1.36%	+0.00 pts	$6,779
2023	1.22%	—	0.15%	1.37%	+0.02 pts	$6,872
2024	1.27%	—	0.15%	1.42%	+0.05 pts	$7,113

Why are Chisholm property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Chisholm's total rate of 1.42% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 54% 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 $209,877 per household, 14% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $4,598 per household, 39% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$1,407) and social and family services (+$415), and less on running the municipality (−$616) and parks and recreation (−$557).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$1,407
Social and family services+$415
Running the municipality−$616
Parks and recreation−$557

What it costs to live in Chisholm

Cost	Chisholm	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$348,000Lower than 61% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$7,113Higher than 54% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	17.0%Higher than 65% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$78,000Lower than 62% 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 Chisholm

The 5 places closest to Chisholm 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
St Joseph	1.26%	$6,297
Papineau-Cameron	1.35%	$6,763
Chisholm this page	1.42%	$7,113
Bonfield	1.50%	$7,504
St-Charles2024 rate	1.58%	$7,916
Macdonald Meredith et al	1.64%	$8,222

Others in Nipissing District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Chisholm
Temagami	1.13%	$5,633	−$1,480
South Algonquin	1.14%	$5,689	−$1,425
East Ferris	1.17%	$5,874	−$1,239
Papineau-Cameron	1.35%	$6,763	−$350
West Nipissing2024 rate	1.35%	$6,765	−$349
Calvin2024 rate	1.45%	$7,266	+$153
Bonfield	1.50%	$7,504	+$391
North Bay	1.75%	$8,761	+$1,647

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Chisholm

All 5 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 5 classes Chisholm 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
Commercial	1.1717	1.49%	—	0.88%	2.37%
Industrial	1.1	1.40%	—	0.64%	2.04%
Residential	1	1.27%	—	0.15%	1.42%
Farmland	0.25	0.32%	—	0.04%	0.36%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.32%	—	0.04%	0.36%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Chisholm 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 Chisholm's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 190 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 48031, MAH 85605
Limits: These are the figures Chisholm 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.

Chisholm property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 54% of the 414 Ontario municipalities