Fort Frances property tax rate 2025

Fort Frances in short

$11,284 a year on a $500,000 home: $10,519 to Fort Frances council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.41 points since 2019, or $2,066 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $800 a month, home value $226,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Fort Frances 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 Fort Frances's rate: Fort Frances council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Fort Frances has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 2.10% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Fort Frances's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$10,519

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalFort Frances council	2.10%	$10,519	93%
County or regionNone in Fort Frances	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	7%
Total	2.26%	$11,284	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 0.41 percentage points, from 1.84% to 2.26%. On a $500,000 home that is $2,066 a year more than in 2019.

20191.84%$9,218
20201.90%$9,517
20211.94%$9,707
20222.00%$10,019
20232.10%$10,498
20242.22%$11,081
2025^*2.26%$11,284

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Fort Frances'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 $430M to $444M, and the residential levy collected went from $8M to $10M. 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	1.68%	—	0.16%	1.84%	—	$9,218
2020	1.75%	—	0.15%	1.90%	+0.06 pts	$9,517
2021	1.79%	—	0.15%	1.94%	+0.04 pts	$9,707
2022	1.85%	—	0.15%	2.00%	+0.06 pts	$10,019
2023	1.95%	—	0.15%	2.10%	+0.10 pts	$10,498
2024	2.06%	—	0.15%	2.22%	+0.12 pts	$11,081
2025*	2.10%	—	0.15%	2.26%	+0.04 pts	$11,284

Why are Fort Frances property taxes so high?

Fort Frances's total rate of 2.26% is 0.86 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: $444.4M of taxable residential value funds $10.0M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $115,484 per household, 37% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $8,505 per household, 13% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$597), water and wastewater (+$587) and police (+$353), and less on social and family services (−$188) and roads and bridges (−$161).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$597
Water and wastewater+$587
Police+$353
Social and family services−$188
Roads and bridges−$161

What it costs to live in Fort Frances

Cost	Fort Frances	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$800Lower than 78% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$226,000Lower than 85% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$11,284Higher than 94% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	11.3%Lower than 80% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$76,500Lower 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 Fort Frances

The 5 places closest to Fort Frances 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
Dryden	1.97%	$9,834
Hearst	2.22%	$11,110
Kirkland Lake2024 rate	2.25%	$11,245
Fort Frances this page	2.26%	$11,284
Iroquois Falls	2.55%	$12,753
Marathon	3.22%	$16,100

Others in Rainy River District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Fort Frances
Lake of The Woods	0.69%	$3,435	−$7,849
Alberton	1.13%	$5,640	−$5,644
Dawson	1.22%	$6,116	−$5,168
Morley	1.41%	$7,055	−$4,228
Chapple	1.55%	$7,745	−$3,538
La Vallee	1.63%	$8,146	−$3,137
Emo	1.76%	$8,790	−$2,493
Rainy River2024 rate	3.03%	$15,154	+$3,870

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Fort Frances

All 10 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 10 classes Fort Frances 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	2.579925	5.43%	—	0.88%	6.31%
Pipeline	2.543254	5.35%	—	0.88%	6.23%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.099301	4.42%	—	0.51%	4.93%
Commercial	1.94352	3.96%	—	0.85%	4.81%
Office Building	1.94352	3.96%	—	0.85%	4.81%
Parking Lot	1.94352	3.96%	—	0.85%	4.81%
Multi-Residential	1.975471	4.16%	—	0.15%	4.31%
New Multi-Residential	1	2.10%	—	0.15%	2.26%
Residential	1	2.10%	—	0.15%	2.26%
Farmland	0.25	0.53%	—	0.04%	0.56%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Fort Frances 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 Fort Frances's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 26 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 59012, MAH 87401
Limits: These are the figures Fort Frances 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.

Fort Frances property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 94% of the 414 Ontario municipalities