Douro-Dummer property tax rate 2025

Douro-Dummer in short

$5,263 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,292 to Douro-Dummer council, $2,206 to Peterborough County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.22 points since 2019, or $1,107 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,130 a month, home value $600,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Douro-Dummer 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

Three bodies set Douro-Dummer's rate: Douro-Dummer council at 0.46%, Peterborough County at 0.44%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 42% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$2,292$2,206$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalDouro-Dummer council	0.46%	$2,292	44%
County or regionPeterborough County	0.44%	$2,206	42%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	15%
Total	1.05%	$5,263	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 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.22 percentage points, from 0.83% to 1.05%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,107 a year more than in 2019.

20190.83%$4,156
20200.84%$4,201
20210.86%$4,305
20220.88%$4,410
20230.92%$4,578
20240.99%$4,944
2025^*1.05%$5,263

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Douro-Dummer'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 $1,440M to $1,545M, and the residential levy collected went from $12M to $16M. 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	0.35%	0.32%	0.16%	0.83%	—	$4,156
2020	0.36%	0.33%	0.15%	0.84%	+0.01 pts	$4,201
2021	0.37%	0.34%	0.15%	0.86%	+0.02 pts	$4,305
2022	0.38%	0.34%	0.15%	0.88%	+0.02 pts	$4,410
2023	0.40%	0.36%	0.15%	0.92%	+0.03 pts	$4,578
2024	0.43%	0.40%	0.15%	0.99%	+0.07 pts	$4,944
2025*	0.46%	0.44%	0.15%	1.05%	+0.06 pts	$5,263

Why are Douro-Dummer property taxes so low?

Douro-Dummer's total rate of 1.05% is 0.35 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 — $1.55B of residential value funds $16.3M 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 $429,130 per household, 56% more than the middle ($274,250). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $2,800 per household, 35% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on snow and ice (+$20), and less on running the municipality (−$184) and parks and recreation (−$155).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Snow and ice+$20
Running the municipality−$184
Parks and recreation−$155

What it costs to live in Douro-Dummer

Cost	Douro-Dummer	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,130Higher than 77% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$600,000Higher than 74% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$5,263Lower than 83% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.4%Lower than 73% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$96,000Higher than 72% 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 Douro-Dummer

The 5 places closest to Douro-Dummer 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
Selwyn	0.87%	$4,343
Beckwith	0.89%	$4,456
Gravenhurst	1.01%	$5,032
Douro-Dummer this page	1.05%	$5,263
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen2024 rate	1.08%	$5,416
Ramara	1.09%	$5,450

Others in Peterborough County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Douro-Dummer
Selwyn	0.87%	$4,343	−$920
North Kawartha2023 rate	0.89%	$4,428	−$835
Trent Lakes	1.01%	$5,055	−$208
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen2024 rate	1.08%	$5,416	+$153
Otonabee-South Monaghan	1.26%	$6,289	+$1,026
Cavan Monaghan2024 rate	1.31%	$6,538	+$1,275
Asphodel-Norwood	1.40%	$6,992	+$1,729
Peterborough	1.77%	$8,846	+$3,583

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Douro-Dummer

All 7 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 7 classes Douro-Dummer 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	1.5432	0.71%	0.68%	0.88%	2.27%
Commercial	1.0986	0.50%	0.48%	0.88%	1.87%
Pipeline	0.9386	0.43%	0.41%	0.88%	1.72%
Aggregate Extraction Property	1.255712	0.58%	0.55%	0.51%	1.64%
Residential	1	0.46%	0.44%	0.15%	1.05%
Farmland	0.25	0.11%	0.11%	0.04%	0.26%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.11%	0.11%	0.04%	0.26%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Douro-Dummer 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 Douro-Dummer's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 344 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 15021, MAH 66618
Limits: These are the figures Douro-Dummer 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.

Douro-Dummer property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 83% of the 414 Ontario municipalities