Dawn-Euphemia property tax rate 2023

Dawn-Euphemia in short

$6,884 a year on a $500,000 home: $3,760 to Dawn-Euphemia council, $2,359 to Lambton County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.12 points since 2019, or $595 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $710 a month, home value $348,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Dawn-Euphemia 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

Three bodies set Dawn-Euphemia's rate: Dawn-Euphemia council at 0.75%, Lambton County at 0.47%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 34% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$3,760$2,359$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalDawn-Euphemia council	0.75%	$3,760	55%
County or regionLambton County	0.47%	$2,359	34%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.38%	$6,884	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.12 percentage points, from 1.26% to 1.38%. On a $500,000 home that is $595 a year more than in 2019.

20191.26%$6,289
20201.26%$6,283
20211.28%$6,418
20221.35%$6,761
20231.38%$6,884

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 $151M to $176M, 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	0.66%	0.44%	0.16%	1.26%	—	$6,289
2020	0.67%	0.44%	0.15%	1.26%	−0.00 pts	$6,283
2021	0.69%	0.44%	0.15%	1.28%	+0.03 pts	$6,418
2022	0.74%	0.46%	0.15%	1.35%	+0.07 pts	$6,761
2023	0.75%	0.47%	0.15%	1.38%	+0.02 pts	$6,884

Why are Dawn-Euphemia property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Dawn-Euphemia's total rate of 1.38% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 53% 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 $188,102 per household, 31% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $6,384 per household, 48% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$1,558), running the municipality (+$509) and fire (+$84), and less on parks and recreation (−$412) and water and wastewater (−$257).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$1,558
Running the municipality+$509
Fire+$84
Parks and recreation−$412
Water and wastewater−$257

What it costs to live in Dawn-Euphemia

Cost	Dawn-Euphemia	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$710Lower than 91% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$348,000Lower than 61% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2023	$6,884Lower than 53% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.7%Lower than 69% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$83,000Lower than 50% 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 Dawn-Euphemia

The 5 places closest to Dawn-Euphemia on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.

Place	Newest rate	On $500,000
Edwardsburgh-Cardinal	1.36%	$6,789
Dawn-Euphemia this page	1.38%	$6,884
Point Edward	1.45%	$7,252
Newbury2023 rate	1.56%	$7,819
South Bruce2024 rate	1.58%	$7,923
Brooke-Alvinston	1.59%	$7,948

Others in Lambton County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Dawn-Euphemia
Warwick2024 rate	1.15%	$5,751	−$1,132
Lambton Shores	1.24%	$6,191	−$693
Enniskillen	1.32%	$6,598	−$286
St Clair	1.35%	$6,739	−$145
Plympton-Wyoming	1.42%	$7,077	+$193
Point Edward	1.45%	$7,252	+$368
Brooke-Alvinston	1.59%	$7,948	+$1,064
Sarnia	1.67%	$8,333	+$1,450

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Dawn-Euphemia

All 7 property classes, 2023

Residential is one of 7 classes Dawn-Euphemia 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	2.047572	1.54%	0.97%	0.88%	3.39%
Commercial	1.627101	1.22%	0.77%	0.88%	2.87%
Multi-Residential	2	1.50%	0.94%	0.15%	2.60%
Pipeline	1.342355	1.01%	0.63%	0.88%	2.52%
Residential	1	0.75%	0.47%	0.15%	1.38%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.19%	0.12%	0.04%	0.34%
Farmland	0.226	0.17%	0.11%	0.04%	0.31%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Dawn-Euphemia 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 Dawn-Euphemia's 2023 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 219 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 38005, MAH 54611
Limits: These are the figures Dawn-Euphemia 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.

Dawn-Euphemia property tax rate, 2023

Lower than 53% of the 414 Ontario municipalities