Town · Eastern Ontario · Lennox and Addington County
At 1.3304%, Greater Napanee sits 181 of 386 Ontario municipalities ranked cheapest to most expensive — within a couple of percent of the provincial median of 1.3516%. On a $500,000 assessment that works out to $6,652 a year, or $554 a month.
Greater Napanee has already filed 2025: 1.3891% total, +4.41% against 2024 — $6,945 on a $500,000 assessment. Rankings on this site still use 2024, because only 282 of 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far and a partial year would make every rank meaningless.
Greater Napanee is a lower-tier municipality within Lennox and Addington County. Two councils tax the same property: Greater Napanee at 0.5978% and Lennox and Addington County at 0.5796%. The county portion is 44% of the total bill, and it is set by a council you vote for separately.
| Portion | Set by | Rate | On $500,000 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal | Greater Napanee council | 0.5978% | $2,989 | 44.9% |
| Upper-tier | Lennox and Addington County | 0.5796% | $2,898 | 43.6% |
| Education | Province of Ontario | 0.1530% | $765 | 11.5% |
| Total | 1.3304% | $6,652 | 100% |
Since 2019 the total rate here has risen 17.1%. Over the same period the assessment base moved from $906M to $969M, so the levy collected grew from $10M to $13M. 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.
| Year | Municipal | Upper-tier | Education | Total | Change | On $500,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 0.4965% | 0.4782% | 0.1610% | 1.1357% | — | $5,679 |
| 2020 | 0.5033% | 0.4797% | 0.1530% | 1.1360% | +0.0% | $5,680 |
| 2021 | 0.5219% | 0.4973% | 0.1530% | 1.1722% | +3.2% | $5,861 |
| 2022 | 0.5544% | 0.5382% | 0.1530% | 1.2456% | +6.3% | $6,228 |
| 2023 | 0.5611% | 0.5635% | 0.1530% | 1.2776% | +2.6% | $6,388 |
| 2024 | 0.5978% | 0.5796% | 0.1530% | 1.3304% | +4.1% | $6,652 |
| 2025 | 0.6327% | 0.6034% | 0.1530% | 1.3891% | +4.4% | $6,945 |
Rates only compare cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels. These are the municipalities most directly comparable to Greater Napanee, which share the same upper-tier government.
| Municipality | Total rate | On $500,000 | vs Greater Napanee | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Mills | 1.4038% | $7,019 | +$367 | 226 |
| Addington Highlands | 1.4375% | $7,187 | +$535 | 234 |
| Loyalist | 1.5963% | $7,981 | +$1,329 | 283 |
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Residential is one of 12 classes Greater Napanee reported this year. The tax ratio column 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 | Upper-tier | Education | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Industrial | 2.73 | 1.7934% | 1.5822% | 0.8800% | 4.2556% |
| Industrial | 2.17 | 1.4255% | 1.2577% | 0.8800% | 3.5632% |
| Commercial | 1.417467 | 0.9312% | 0.8215% | 0.8800% | 2.6327% |
| Office Building | 1.417467 | 0.9312% | 0.8215% | 0.8800% | 2.6327% |
| Parking Lot | 1.417467 | 0.9312% | 0.8215% | 0.8800% | 2.6327% |
| Shopping Centre | 1.417467 | 0.9312% | 0.8215% | 0.8800% | 2.6327% |
| Multi-Residential | 2 | 1.3139% | 1.1592% | 0.1530% | 2.6261% |
| Pipeline | 1.2972000000000001 | 0.7755% | 0.7518% | 0.8800% | 2.4073% |
| New Multi-Residential | 1 | 0.6569% | 0.5796% | 0.1530% | 1.3895% |
| Residential | 1 | 0.5978% | 0.5796% | 0.1530% | 1.3304% |
| Farmland | 0.25 | 0.1495% | 0.1449% | 0.0382% | 0.3326% |
| Managed Forest | 0.25 | 0.1495% | 0.1449% | 0.0382% | 0.3326% |
They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Greater Napanee's total rate of 1.3304% sits close to the Ontario median of 1.3516%, ranking 181 of 386. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.
Greater Napanee’s total residential tax rate is 1.33%, close to the middle lower-tier municipality (1.30%).
Of that rate, 0.58% goes to Lennox and Addington County and 0.15% to schools; 0.60% is set by Greater Napanee itself.
Homes here carry $127,284 of assessed value per household, 54% below the middle ($275,612). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.
It spends $4,214 per household in total, close to the middle ($4,124). The biggest gaps above the middle: police (+$185), running the municipality (+$64), fire (+$62). Below: water and wastewater (−$87), parks and recreation (−$75).
Across 226 lower-tier municipalities, rates move more with home values (rank correlation -0.72) than with spending per household (0.45). That is a pattern, not proof of cause.
Closest on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among municipalities of the same tier.
Greater Napanee reported a residential assessment base of $1B for 2024 and collected $13M in residential property tax against it. Assessment is the figure on the MPAC notice, still based on 2016 valuations province-wide, which is why it usually differs from what a house would sell for today.
These are the figures Greater Napanee 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.
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