Ear Falls property tax rate 2024

Ear Falls in short

$12,228 a year on a $500,000 home: $11,463 to Ear Falls council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.07 points since 2019, or $372 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,100 a month, home value $160,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Ear Falls 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 Ear Falls's rate: Ear Falls council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Ear Falls has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 2.29% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Ear Falls's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$11,463

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalEar Falls council	2.29%	$11,463	94%
County or regionNone in Ear Falls	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	6%
Total	2.45%	$12,228	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.07 percentage points, from 2.37% to 2.45%. On a $500,000 home that is $372 a year more than in 2019.

20192.37%$11,857
20202.33%$11,639
20212.35%$11,749
20222.37%$11,859
20232.40%$12,014
20242.45%$12,228

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 $55M to $56M, and the residential levy collected went from $1M 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	2.21%	—	0.16%	2.37%	—	$11,857
2020	2.17%	—	0.15%	2.33%	−0.04 pts	$11,639
2021	2.20%	—	0.15%	2.35%	+0.02 pts	$11,749
2022	2.22%	—	0.15%	2.37%	+0.02 pts	$11,859
2023	2.25%	—	0.15%	2.40%	+0.03 pts	$12,014
2024	2.29%	—	0.15%	2.45%	+0.04 pts	$12,228

Why are Ear Falls property taxes so high?

Ear Falls's total rate of 2.45% is 1.05 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: $55.8M of taxable residential value funds $1.4M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $98,683 per household, 46% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $9,571 per household, 27% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$1,087), water and wastewater (+$1,000) and running the municipality (+$954), and less on roads and bridges (−$786) and social and family services (−$150).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$1,087
Water and wastewater+$1,000
Running the municipality+$954
Roads and bridges−$786
Social and family services−$150

What it costs to live in Ear Falls

Cost	Ear Falls	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,100Higher than 71% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$160,000Lower than 92% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$12,228Higher than 95% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	16.1%Higher than 59% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$93,000Higher than 67% 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 Ear Falls

The 5 places closest to Ear Falls 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
Burk's Falls2024 rate	1.91%	$9,553
Ear Falls this page	2.45%	$12,228
Smooth Rock Falls	2.71%	$13,540
McGarry	2.99%	$14,944
Rainy River2024 rate	3.03%	$15,154
Terrace Bay	3.37%	$16,835

Others in Kenora District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Ear Falls
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	0.93%	$4,626	−$7,602
Machin	1.33%	$6,644	−$5,584
Kenora	1.62%	$8,077	−$4,151
Red Lake2024 rate	1.68%	$8,397	−$3,832
Dryden	1.97%	$9,834	−$2,394
Sioux Lookout2024 rate	2.22%	$11,121	−$1,108
Ignace2021 rate	2.63%	$13,155	+$927
Pickle Lake	3.73%	$18,665	+$6,437

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Ear Falls

All 5 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 5 classes Ear Falls 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
Large Industrial	2.635585	6.04%	—	0.88%	6.92%
Pipeline	2.221351	5.09%	—	0.88%	5.97%
Commercial	1.98	4.54%	—	0.88%	5.42%
Multi-Residential	1.376107	3.15%	—	0.15%	3.31%
Residential	1	2.29%	—	0.15%	2.45%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Ear Falls 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 Ear Falls's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 21 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 60042, MAH 82605
Limits: These are the figures Ear Falls 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.

Ear Falls property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 95% of the 414 Ontario municipalities