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Township in Northeast Ontario, with no county above it

Cockburn Island property tax rate, 2024

1.30% of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year

$6,513 a year on a $500,000 home, or about $543 a month

Lower than 63% of the 414 Ontario municipalities

Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Further right is higher.

Cockburn Island 1.30%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
Cockburn Island
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
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Cockburn Island in short

  • $6,513 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,748 to Cockburn Island council and $765 to schools.
  • Up 0.15 points since 2019, or $735 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Cockburn Island 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 Cockburn Island's rate: Cockburn Island council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Cockburn Island has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.15% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Cockburn Island's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

PortionRateOn $500,000Share
MunicipalCockburn Island council1.15%$5,74888%
County or regionNone in Cockburn Island0.00%$00%
EducationProvince of Ontario0.15%$76512%
Total1.30%$6,513100%

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 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.15 percentage points, from 1.16% to 1.30%. On a $500,000 home that is $735 a year more than in 2019.

  1. 20191.16%$5,778
  2. 20201.17%$5,837
  3. 20211.19%$5,939
  4. 20221.21%$6,042
  5. 20231.27%$6,345
  6. 20241.30%$6,513
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 $11M to $11M, and the residential levy collected went from $0M to $0M. 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.

YearMunicipalCounty or regionEducationTotalChangeOn $500,000
20190.99%—0.16%1.16%—$5,778
20201.01%—0.15%1.17%+0.01 pts$5,837
20211.03%—0.15%1.19%+0.02 pts$5,939
20221.06%—0.15%1.21%+0.02 pts$6,042
20231.12%—0.15%1.27%+0.06 pts$6,345
20241.15%—0.15%1.30%+0.03 pts$6,513

Why are Cockburn Island property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Cockburn Island's total rate of 1.30% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 63% of 414 municipalities. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.

More on why
Note
Cockburn Island has too few households for a fair per-household comparison.

Places like Cockburn Island

Others in Manitoulin District

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

MunicipalityRateOn $500,000vs Cockburn Island
Gordon-Barrie Island1.09%$5,458−$1,055
Burpee and Mills1.33%$6,634+$121
Billings2024 rate1.34%$6,723+$210
Northeastern Manitoulin & The Isl1.35%$6,773+$260
Central Manitoulin2023 rate1.47%$7,365+$852
Assiginack2024 rate1.70%$8,499+$1,986
Tehkummah2022 rate1.80%$9,011+$2,499
Gore Bay2.14%$10,719+$4,206

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Cockburn Island

All 2 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 2 classes Cockburn Island 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.

ClassTax ratioMunicipalCounty or regionEducationTotal
Residential11.15%—0.15%1.30%
Managed Forest0.250.29%—0.04%0.33%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Cockburn Island 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.
Method
Dollar figures are the rate times $500,000 of assessed value. Standing compares Cockburn Island's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 259 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 51034, MAH 83606
Limits
These are the figures Cockburn Island 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.