Grey Highlands property tax rate 2025

Grey Highlands in short

$7,063 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,209 to Grey Highlands council, $2,089 to Grey County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.32 points since 2019, or $1,621 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $950 a month, home value $600,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Grey Highlands 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 Grey Highlands's rate: Grey Highlands council at 0.84%, Grey County at 0.42%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 30% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,209$2,089$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalGrey Highlands council	0.84%	$4,209	60%
County or regionGrey County	0.42%	$2,089	30%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.41%	$7,063	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 0.32 percentage points, from 1.09% to 1.41%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,621 a year more than in 2019.

20191.09%$5,442
20201.10%$5,522
20211.12%$5,606
20221.17%$5,858
20231.22%$6,088
20241.29%$6,470
2025^*1.41%$7,063

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Grey Highlands'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 $1,593M to $1,758M, and the residential levy collected went from $17M to $25M. 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	0.57%	0.36%	0.16%	1.09%	—	$5,442
2020	0.60%	0.36%	0.15%	1.10%	+0.02 pts	$5,522
2021	0.60%	0.36%	0.15%	1.12%	+0.02 pts	$5,606
2022	0.64%	0.37%	0.15%	1.17%	+0.05 pts	$5,858
2023	0.68%	0.38%	0.15%	1.22%	+0.05 pts	$6,088
2024	0.74%	0.40%	0.15%	1.29%	+0.08 pts	$6,470
2025*	0.84%	0.42%	0.15%	1.41%	+0.12 pts	$7,063

Why are Grey Highlands property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Grey Highlands's total rate of 1.41% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 52% of 414 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 $429,813 per household, 57% more than the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $6,625 per household, 54% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$1,064), running the municipality (+$634) and garbage and recycling (+$342), and less on water and wastewater (−$45) and fire (−$30).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$1,064
Running the municipality+$634
Garbage and recycling+$342
Water and wastewater−$45
Fire−$30

What it costs to live in Grey Highlands

Cost	Grey Highlands	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$950Lower than 54% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$600,000Higher than 74% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$7,063Higher than 52% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	18.8%Higher than 72% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$85,000Higher than 53% 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 Grey Highlands

The 5 places closest to Grey Highlands 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
Middlesex Centre	1.31%	$6,553
North Perth	1.41%	$7,047
Grey Highlands this page	1.41%	$7,063
Plympton-Wyoming	1.42%	$7,077
Shelburne	1.44%	$7,209
Lincoln	1.46%	$7,309

Others in Grey County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Grey Highlands
The Blue Mountains	0.99%	$4,975	−$2,089
Georgian Bluffs	1.28%	$6,391	−$672
Chatsworth2024 rate	1.37%	$6,831	−$233
West Grey2024 rate	1.38%	$6,891	−$172
Meaford2024 rate	1.49%	$7,426	+$363
Southgate2024 rate	1.54%	$7,680	+$617
Hanover2024 rate	1.60%	$8,014	+$951
Owen Sound2024 rate	1.91%	$9,551	+$2,488

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Grey Highlands

All 10 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 10 classes Grey Highlands 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	1.831	1.54%	0.76%	0.88%	3.19%
Large Industrial	1.831	1.54%	0.76%	0.88%	3.19%
Commercial	1.2969	1.09%	0.54%	0.88%	2.51%
Aggregate Extraction Property	1.489896	1.25%	0.62%	0.51%	2.39%
Pipeline	0.906848	0.76%	0.38%	0.88%	2.02%
Multi-Residential	1.1103	0.93%	0.46%	0.15%	1.55%
New Multi-Residential	1	0.84%	0.42%	0.15%	1.41%
Residential	1	0.84%	0.42%	0.15%	1.41%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.21%	0.10%	0.04%	0.35%
Farmland	0.218	0.18%	0.09%	0.04%	0.31%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Grey Highlands 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 Grey Highlands's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 197 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 42013, MAH 47623
Limits: These are the figures Grey Highlands 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.

Grey Highlands property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 52% of the 414 Ontario municipalities