Dutton-Dunwich property tax rate 2024

Dutton-Dunwich in short

$9,087 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,900 to Dutton-Dunwich council, $3,422 to Elgin County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.25 points since 2019, or $1,225 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $785 a month, home value $452,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Dutton-Dunwich 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

Three bodies set Dutton-Dunwich's rate: Dutton-Dunwich council at 0.98%, Elgin County at 0.68%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 38% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,900$3,422

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalDutton-Dunwich council	0.98%	$4,900	54%
County or regionElgin County	0.68%	$3,422	38%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	8%
Total	1.82%	$9,087	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, 2019–2024

Up every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.25 percentage points, from 1.57% to 1.82%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,225 a year more than in 2019.

20191.57%$7,862
20201.58%$7,879
20211.60%$7,999
20221.63%$8,154
20231.71%$8,527
20241.82%$9,087

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 $344M to $390M, and the residential levy collected went from $5M to $7M. 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	0.81%	0.61%	0.16%	1.57%	—	$7,862
2020	0.82%	0.61%	0.15%	1.58%	+0.00 pts	$7,879
2021	0.82%	0.62%	0.15%	1.60%	+0.02 pts	$7,999
2022	0.84%	0.64%	0.15%	1.63%	+0.03 pts	$8,154
2023	0.89%	0.66%	0.15%	1.71%	+0.07 pts	$8,527
2024	0.98%	0.68%	0.15%	1.82%	+0.11 pts	$9,087

Why are Dutton-Dunwich property taxes so high?

Dutton-Dunwich's total rate of 1.82% is 0.42 percentage points above the provincial middle (1.40%). A rate that high usually means the assessment base is small relative to what the budget must cover: $390.3M of taxable residential value funds $7.1M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $232,723 per household, 15% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $7,493 per household, 74% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on water and wastewater (+$855), planning and development (+$802) and roads and bridges (+$746), and less on parks and recreation (−$104) and snow and ice (−$20).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Water and wastewater+$855
Planning and development+$802
Roads and bridges+$746
Parks and recreation−$104
Snow and ice−$20

What it costs to live in Dutton-Dunwich

Cost	Dutton-Dunwich	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$785Lower than 83% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$452,000Higher than 57% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$9,087Higher than 82% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	11.5%Lower than 79% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$90,000Higher than 61% 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 Dutton-Dunwich

The 5 places closest to Dutton-Dunwich 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
West Elgin	1.55%	$7,746
Southwest Middlesex2024 rate	1.59%	$7,940
Morris-Turnberry	1.66%	$8,284
Stirling-Rawdon2024 rate	1.74%	$8,720
Dutton-Dunwich this page	1.82%	$9,087
Bancroft	2.15%	$10,755

Others in Elgin County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Dutton-Dunwich
Southwold	1.43%	$7,160	−$1,927
West Elgin	1.55%	$7,746	−$1,341
Malahide	1.65%	$8,228	−$859
Bayham	1.66%	$8,320	−$767
Central Elgin2024 rate	1.67%	$8,367	−$720
St Thomas	1.72%	$8,610	−$477
Aylmer	1.82%	$9,123	+$36

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Dutton-Dunwich

All 7 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 7 classes Dutton-Dunwich 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	2.2251	2.18%	1.52%	0.88%	4.58%
Commercial	1.6376	1.60%	1.12%	0.88%	3.61%
Multi-Residential	1.9999	1.96%	1.37%	0.15%	3.48%
Pipeline	1.1446	1.12%	0.78%	0.88%	2.79%
Residential	1	0.98%	0.68%	0.15%	1.82%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.25%	0.17%	0.04%	0.45%
Farmland	0.23	0.23%	0.16%	0.04%	0.42%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Dutton-Dunwich 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.
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 Dutton-Dunwich's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 75 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 34028, MAH 44611
Limits: These are the figures Dutton-Dunwich 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.

Dutton-Dunwich property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 82% of the 414 Ontario municipalities