Gordon-Barrie Island property tax rate 2025

Gordon-Barrie Island in short

$5,458 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,693 to Gordon-Barrie Island council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.16 points since 2019, or $814 a year more on a $500,000 home.

2025 is the newest year Gordon-Barrie Island 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 Gordon-Barrie Island's rate: Gordon-Barrie Island council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Gordon-Barrie Island has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 0.94% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Gordon-Barrie Island's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$4,693$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalGordon-Barrie Island council	0.94%	$4,693	86%
County or regionNone in Gordon-Barrie Island	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	14%
Total	1.09%	$5,458	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 0.16 percentage points, from 0.93% to 1.09%. On a $500,000 home that is $814 a year more than in 2019.

20190.93%$4,644
20200.94%$4,681
20210.96%$4,779
20220.99%$4,955
20231.03%$5,146
20241.06%$5,322
2025^*1.09%$5,458

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Gordon-Barrie Island'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 $126M to $135M, 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	0.77%	—	0.16%	0.93%	—	$4,644
2020	0.78%	—	0.15%	0.94%	+0.01 pts	$4,681
2021	0.80%	—	0.15%	0.96%	+0.02 pts	$4,779
2022	0.84%	—	0.15%	0.99%	+0.04 pts	$4,955
2023	0.88%	—	0.15%	1.03%	+0.04 pts	$5,146
2024	0.91%	—	0.15%	1.06%	+0.04 pts	$5,322
2025*	0.94%	—	0.15%	1.09%	+0.03 pts	$5,458

Why are Gordon-Barrie Island property taxes so low?

Gordon-Barrie Island's total rate of 1.09% is 0.31 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 — $135.3M of residential value funds $1.5M 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 $458,717 per household, 150% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $9,422 per household, 25% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on social and family services (+$2,075), roads and bridges (+$784) and running the municipality (+$524), and less on parks and recreation (−$383) and libraries (−$80).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social and family services+$2,075
Roads and bridges+$784
Running the municipality+$524
Parks and recreation−$383
Libraries−$80

What it costs to live in Gordon-Barrie Island

Cost	Gordon-Barrie Island	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$300,000Lower than 70% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$5,458Lower than 80% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	11.8%Lower than 76% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$68,500Lower than 85% 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 Gordon-Barrie Island

The 5 places closest to Gordon-Barrie Island 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
Coleman	1.08%	$5,381
Gordon-Barrie Island this page	1.09%	$5,458
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634
Casey	1.39%	$6,949
Chamberlain	1.43%	$7,161
Joly	1.61%	$8,046

Others in Manitoulin District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Gordon-Barrie Island
Cockburn Island2024 rate	1.30%	$6,513	+$1,055
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634	+$1,176
Billings2024 rate	1.34%	$6,723	+$1,265
Northeastern Manitoulin & The Isl	1.35%	$6,773	+$1,315
Central Manitoulin2023 rate	1.47%	$7,365	+$1,907
Assiginack2024 rate	1.70%	$8,499	+$3,040
Tehkummah2022 rate	1.80%	$9,011	+$3,553
Gore Bay	2.14%	$10,719	+$5,260

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Gordon-Barrie Island

All 7 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 7 classes Gordon-Barrie Island 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
Commercial	1.0286	0.97%	—	0.88%	1.85%
Office Building	1.0286	0.97%	—	0.88%	1.85%
Industrial	0.614	0.58%	—	0.88%	1.46%
Residential	1	0.94%	—	0.15%	1.09%
Aggregate Extraction Property	0.499616	0.47%	—	0.51%	0.98%
Farmland	0.25	0.23%	—	0.04%	0.27%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.23%	—	0.04%	0.27%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Gordon-Barrie Island 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 Gordon-Barrie Island's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 331 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 51025, MAH 83614
Limits: These are the figures Gordon-Barrie Island 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.

Gordon-Barrie Island property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 80% of the 414 Ontario municipalities