Dawson property tax rate 2025

Dawson in short

$6,116 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,351 to Dawson council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.19 points since 2019, or $939 a year more on a $500,000 home.

2025 is the newest year Dawson has filed. Every municipality on this site is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 have filed 2025, and the other 131 are at their newest year, mostly 2024.

Who sets the rate

Two bodies set Dawson's rate: Dawson council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Dawson has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.07% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Dawson's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,351$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalDawson council	1.07%	$5,351	87%
County or regionNone in Dawson	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	13%
Total	1.22%	$6,116	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, 2019–2025

Up every year since 2021. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.19 percentage points, from 1.04% to 1.22%. On a $500,000 home that is $939 a year more than in 2019.

20191.04%$5,177
20201.06%$5,281
20211.06%$5,281
20221.08%$5,386
20231.13%$5,656
20241.17%$5,825
2025^*1.22%$6,116

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Dawson's own filing; 104 municipalities have not filed 2025 yet.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $45M to $48M, and the residential levy collected went from $0M to $1M. 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	0.87%	—	0.16%	1.04%	—	$5,177
2020	0.90%	—	0.15%	1.06%	+0.02 pts	$5,281
2021	0.90%	—	0.15%	1.06%	+0.00 pts	$5,281
2022	0.92%	—	0.15%	1.08%	+0.02 pts	$5,386
2023	0.98%	—	0.15%	1.13%	+0.05 pts	$5,656
2024	1.01%	—	0.15%	1.17%	+0.03 pts	$5,825
2025*	1.07%	—	0.15%	1.22%	+0.06 pts	$6,116

Why are Dawson property taxes so low?

Dawson's total rate of 1.22% is 0.18 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. The taxable value is large next to what the budget must cover — $48.0M of residential value funds $587K in levy here — so a lower percentage raises enough, and the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $154,853 per household, 16% less than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $5,058 per household, 33% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$592), planning and development (+$323) and snow and ice (+$228), and less on parks and recreation (−$550) and running the municipality (−$427).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$592
Planning and development+$323
Snow and ice+$228
Parks and recreation−$550
Running the municipality−$427

What it costs to live in Dawson

Cost	Dawson	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$250,000Lower than 81% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$6,116Lower than 69% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	0.0%The lowest	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$75,000Lower than 70% 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 Dawson

The 5 places closest to Dawson 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
Lake of The Woods	0.69%	$3,435
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	0.93%	$4,626
Dawson this page	1.22%	$6,116
James2024 rate	1.25%	$6,272
Machin	1.33%	$6,644
Baldwin	1.39%	$6,964

Others in Rainy River District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Dawson
Lake of The Woods	0.69%	$3,435	−$2,681
Alberton	1.13%	$5,640	−$476
Morley	1.41%	$7,055	+$940
Chapple	1.55%	$7,745	+$1,630
La Vallee	1.63%	$8,146	+$2,030
Emo	1.76%	$8,790	+$2,674
Fort Frances	2.26%	$11,284	+$5,168
Rainy River2024 rate	3.03%	$15,154	+$9,038

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Dawson

All 5 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 5 classes Dawson 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
Pipeline	2.9921	3.20%	—	0.88%	4.08%
Commercial	1.98	2.12%	—	0.88%	3.00%
Industrial	1.1653	1.25%	—	0.88%	2.13%
Residential	1	1.07%	—	0.15%	1.22%
Farmland	0.25	0.27%	—	0.04%	0.31%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Dawson 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, 2025; 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 Dawson's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 285 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 59040, MAH 87613
Limits: These are the figures Dawson 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.

Dawson property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 69% of the 414 Ontario municipalities