Greater Madawaska property tax rate 2025

Greater Madawaska in short

$5,485 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,543 to Greater Madawaska council, $2,177 to Renfrew County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.17 points since 2019, or $859 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,000 a month, home value $476,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Greater Madawaska 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 Greater Madawaska's rate: Greater Madawaska council at 0.51%, Renfrew County at 0.44%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 40% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$2,543$2,177$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalGreater Madawaska council	0.51%	$2,543	46%
County or regionRenfrew County	0.44%	$2,177	40%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	14%
Total	1.10%	$5,485	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.17 percentage points, from 0.93% to 1.10%. On a $500,000 home that is $859 a year more than in 2019.

20190.93%$4,626
20200.92%$4,606
20210.94%$4,695
20220.96%$4,783
20230.99%$4,974
20241.05%$5,240
2025^*1.10%$5,485

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Greater Madawaska'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 $778M to $862M, and the residential levy collected went from $7M to $9M. 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	0.40%	0.36%	0.16%	0.93%	—	$4,626
2020	0.40%	0.37%	0.15%	0.92%	−0.00 pts	$4,606
2021	0.41%	0.38%	0.15%	0.94%	+0.02 pts	$4,695
2022	0.42%	0.38%	0.15%	0.96%	+0.02 pts	$4,783
2023	0.45%	0.39%	0.15%	0.99%	+0.04 pts	$4,974
2024	0.48%	0.41%	0.15%	1.05%	+0.05 pts	$5,240
2025*	0.51%	0.44%	0.15%	1.10%	+0.05 pts	$5,485

Why are Greater Madawaska property taxes so low?

Greater Madawaska's total rate of 1.10% is 0.30 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 — $862.3M of residential value funds $9.5M 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 $286,494 per household, about the same as the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $2,532 per household, 41% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on planning and development (+$34), and less on parks and recreation (−$316) and fire (−$150).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Planning and development+$34
Parks and recreation−$316
Fire−$150

What it costs to live in Greater Madawaska

Cost	Greater Madawaska	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,000Higher than 53% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$476,000Higher than 60% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$5,485Lower than 80% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	16.5%Higher than 61% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$81,000Lower than 55% 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 Greater Madawaska

The 5 places closest to Greater Madawaska 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
Highlands East2024 rate	0.97%	$4,831
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen2024 rate	1.08%	$5,416
Greater Madawaska this page	1.10%	$5,485
North Frontenac	1.16%	$5,780
Northern Bruce Peninsula2024 rate	1.16%	$5,800
Horton	1.21%	$6,075

Others in Renfrew County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Greater Madawaska
Head, Clara and Maria2023 rate	0.75%	$3,764	−$1,721
Petawawa2024 rate	1.05%	$5,273	−$212
Madawaska Valley	1.06%	$5,294	−$191
Laurentian Valley	1.12%	$5,590	+$105
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan	1.21%	$6,038	+$553
Horton	1.21%	$6,075	+$590
McNab-Braeside	1.31%	$6,552	+$1,066
Laurentian Hills	1.33%	$6,652	+$1,167

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Greater Madawaska

All 6 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 6 classes Greater Madawaska 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	2.466904	1.25%	1.07%	0.88%	3.21%
Commercial	1.8147	0.92%	0.79%	0.88%	2.59%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.007336	1.02%	0.87%	0.51%	2.41%
Residential	1	0.51%	0.44%	0.15%	1.10%
Farmland	0.25	0.13%	0.11%	0.04%	0.27%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.13%	0.11%	0.04%	0.27%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Greater Madawaska 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 Greater Madawaska's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 329 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 47007, MAH 69637
Limits: These are the figures Greater Madawaska 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.

Greater Madawaska property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 80% of the 414 Ontario municipalities