Greater Sudbury property tax rate 2025

Greater Sudbury in short

$7,287 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,522 to Greater Sudbury council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.24 points since 2019, or $1,200 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,000 a month, home value $348,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Greater Sudbury has filed, so this page uses it. 283 of Ontario’s 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far, and Greater Sudbury is compared with them. In 2024, when all of them had filed, Greater Sudbury was higher than 59% at 1.41%.

Who sets the rate

Two bodies set Greater Sudbury's rate: Greater Sudbury council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Greater Sudbury has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.30% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Greater Sudbury's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$6,522$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalGreater Sudbury council	1.30%	$6,522	90%
County or regionNone in Greater Sudbury	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	10%
Total	1.46%	$7,287	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 0.24 percentage points, from 1.22% to 1.46%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,200 a year more than in 2019.

20191.22%$6,087
20201.23%$6,141
20211.27%$6,355
20221.31%$6,528
20231.36%$6,814
20241.41%$7,051
2025^*1.46%$7,287

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Greater Sudbury'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 $14,552M to $15,286M, and the residential levy collected went from $175M to $223M. 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	1.06%	—	0.16%	1.22%	—	$6,087
2020	1.08%	—	0.15%	1.23%	+0.01 pts	$6,141
2021	1.12%	—	0.15%	1.27%	+0.04 pts	$6,355
2022	1.15%	—	0.15%	1.31%	+0.03 pts	$6,528
2023	1.21%	—	0.15%	1.36%	+0.06 pts	$6,814
2024	1.26%	—	0.15%	1.41%	+0.05 pts	$7,051
2025*	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.46%	+0.05 pts	$7,287

Why are Greater Sudbury property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Greater Sudbury's total rate of 1.46% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.39%: higher than 60% of 283 municipalities. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $196,842 per household, 8% more than the middle ($182,514).

Spending

It spends $9,852 per household, 37% more than the middle ($7,212). It spends more on social and family services (+$1,955), police (+$663) and social housing (+$416), and less on roads and bridges (−$369) and running the municipality (−$350).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social and family services+$1,955
Police+$663
Social housing+$416
Roads and bridges−$369
Running the municipality−$350

What it costs to live in Greater Sudbury

Cost	Greater Sudbury	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,000Higher than 53% of 329	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$348,000Lower than 62% of 384	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$7,287Higher than 60% of 283	$6,964
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	17.2%Higher than 66% of 373	14.9%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$84,000The same as the middle	$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 Sudbury

The 5 places closest to Greater Sudbury on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among places with no county above them.

Place	2025 rate	On $500,000
Kingston	1.33%	$6,661
Greater Sudbury this page	1.46%	$7,287
Brantford	1.54%	$7,682
Norfolk County	1.57%	$7,869
St Thomas	1.72%	$8,610
Peterborough	1.77%	$8,846

Closest rates in Northeast Ontario

The nearest rates in Northeast Ontario that have filed 2025. Rates compare most cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels.

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Greater Sudbury
Ryerson	1.45%	$7,263	−$24
Powassan	1.48%	$7,379	+$92
Chamberlain	1.43%	$7,161	−$126
Kerns	1.43%	$7,155	−$132
Bonfield	1.50%	$7,504	+$218
Temiskaming Shores	1.41%	$7,050	−$236

All 283 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Greater Sudbury

All 13 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 13 classes Greater Sudbury 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	3.932421	5.04%	—	0.88%	5.92%
Industrial	3.387738	4.34%	—	0.88%	5.22%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.809508	3.60%	—	0.51%	4.11%
Pipeline	2.179489	2.84%	—	0.88%	3.72%
Commercial	1.912	2.49%	—	0.88%	3.37%
Office Building	1.912	2.49%	—	0.88%	3.37%
Parking Lot	1.912	2.49%	—	0.88%	3.37%
Shopping Centre	1.912	2.49%	—	0.88%	3.37%
Multi-Residential	1.965	2.56%	—	0.15%	2.72%
New Multi-Residential	1	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.46%
Residential	1	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.46%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.33%	—	0.04%	0.36%
Farmland	0.2	0.26%	—	0.04%	0.30%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Greater Sudbury 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 Sudbury's 2025 total residential rate with all 283 Ontario municipalities: 113 of the other 282 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 53005, MAH 23103
Limits: These are the figures Greater Sudbury 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 Sudbury property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 60% of the 283 Ontario municipalities that have filed 2025