Harley property tax rate 2025

Harley in short

$6,493 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,728 to Harley council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.06 points since 2019, or $322 a year more on a $500,000 home.

2025 is the newest year Harley 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 Harley's rate: Harley council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Harley has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.15% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Harley's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,728$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalHarley council	1.15%	$5,728	88%
County or regionNone in Harley	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	12%
Total	1.30%	$6,493	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 2021. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.06 percentage points, from 1.23% to 1.30%. On a $500,000 home that is $322 a year more than in 2019.

20191.23%$6,171
20201.19%$5,961
20211.19%$5,961
20221.21%$6,039
20231.24%$6,212
20241.28%$6,381
2025^*1.30%$6,493

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Harley'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 $47M to $51M, 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	1.07%	—	0.16%	1.23%	—	$6,171
2020	1.04%	—	0.15%	1.19%	−0.04 pts	$5,961
2021	1.04%	—	0.15%	1.19%	+0.00 pts	$5,961
2022	1.05%	—	0.15%	1.21%	+0.02 pts	$6,039
2023	1.09%	—	0.15%	1.24%	+0.03 pts	$6,212
2024	1.12%	—	0.15%	1.28%	+0.03 pts	$6,381
2025*	1.15%	—	0.15%	1.30%	+0.02 pts	$6,493

Why are Harley property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Harley's total rate of 1.30% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 63% 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 $253,009 per household, 38% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $9,531 per household, 26% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$2,249), running the municipality (+$1,294) and snow and ice (+$774), and less on parks and recreation (−$422) and social and family services (−$174).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$2,249
Running the municipality+$1,294
Snow and ice+$774
Parks and recreation−$422
Social and family services−$174

What it costs to live in Harley

Cost	Harley	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$348,000Lower than 61% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$6,493Lower than 63% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	8.8%Lower than 91% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$95,000Higher than 70% 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 Harley

The 5 places closest to Harley 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
Harley this page	1.30%	$6,493
Tarbutt	1.32%	$6,605
Burpee and Mills	1.33%	$6,634
Kerns	1.43%	$7,155
Nairn and Hyman	1.64%	$8,209
Assiginack2024 rate	1.70%	$8,499

Others in Timiskaming District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Harley
Harris	0.75%	$3,726	−$2,767
Hudson	0.99%	$4,946	−$1,547
Brethour2024 rate	1.05%	$5,245	−$1,248
Coleman	1.08%	$5,381	−$1,113
James2024 rate	1.25%	$6,272	−$222
Armstrong	1.26%	$6,283	−$210
Latchford	1.28%	$6,413	−$80
Casey	1.39%	$6,949	+$455

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Harley

All 5 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 5 classes Harley 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	1.1	1.26%	—	0.88%	2.14%
Industrial	1.1	1.26%	—	0.88%	2.14%
Large Industrial	1.1	1.26%	—	0.88%	2.14%
Residential	1	1.15%	—	0.15%	1.30%
Farmland	0.25	0.29%	—	0.04%	0.32%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Harley 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 Harley's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 261 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 54026, MAH 90610
Limits: These are the figures Harley 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.

Harley property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 63% of the 414 Ontario municipalities