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2025 filed rates · Central Ontario

Clarington vs Oshawa: property tax compared

Clarington1.37% $6,825 a year on a $500,000 home

Oshawa1.52% $7,622 a year on a $500,000 home

Oshawa is +0.16 pts higher: $797 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Where the two sit among Ontario's 414 municipalities

Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Clarington is lower than 55%; Oshawa is higher than 63%.

Clarington 1.37%
Oshawa 1.52%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
Clarington
Oshawa
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
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Clarington has the lower property tax rate: 1.37% against Oshawa's 1.52% for 2025, a gap of 0.16 percentage points. On a $500,000 assessment that is $6,825 versus $7,622 a year — a difference of $797.

Side by side

Assessed valueClaringtonOshawaDifference
$300,000$4,095$4,573$478
$500,000$6,825$7,622$797
$750,000$10,238$11,434$1,196
$1,000,000$13,650$15,245$1,595

Assessed value, not market price. Ontario assessments still reference 2016 valuations, and the two places may sit at different distances from current market value — which is why a rate gap is not the same as a bill gap for comparable houses.

Where the difference comes from

Both are towns inside a county or region, both in Durham Region, so they pay the same county rate of 0.74% and the entire difference comes from their own councils.

PortionClaringtonOshawaOn $500,000
Municipal0.47%0.64%$880
County or region0.74%0.73%$-83
Education0.15%0.15%$0
Total1.37%1.52%$797

2019–2025: has the gap widened?

YearClaringtonOshawaGap
20191.17%1.34%+0.17 pts
20201.13%1.29%+0.16 pts
20211.15%1.30%+0.15 pts
20221.17%1.33%+0.15 pts
20231.22%1.38%+0.15 pts
20241.29%1.43%+0.14 pts
20251.37%1.52%+0.16 pts

Which is cheaper, Clarington or Oshawa?

Clarington, on rate. 1.37% against 1.52% means $797 less per year on a $500,000 assessment. Whether it is cheaper for the same house depends on how each place assesses it, which the rate alone does not tell you.

Sources and method

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, 2025; retrieved 2026-10-11. Download the file
Method
Dollar figures are the rate times the assessed value shown. Gaps between two rates are in percentage points. Both figures are as filed with the province for the tax year shown.
Limits
Reference, not tax advice. An individual bill can include area-specific charges that a municipality-wide rate does not capture.