Harris property tax rate 2025

Harris in short

$3,726 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,961 to Harris council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.08 points since 2019, or $414 a year more on a $500,000 home.

2025 is the newest year Harris 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 Harris's rate: Harris council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Harris has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 0.59% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Harris's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$2,961$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalHarris council	0.59%	$2,961	79%
County or regionNone in Harris	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	21%
Total	0.75%	$3,726	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 0.08 percentage points, from 0.66% to 0.75%. On a $500,000 home that is $414 a year more than in 2019.

20190.66%$3,312
20200.66%$3,322
20210.66%$3,322
20220.70%$3,501
20230.72%$3,583
20240.73%$3,668
2025^*0.75%$3,726

Total residential rate, and the tax on a $500,000 home, for each year. *2025 is Harris'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 $84M to $88M, 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	0.50%	—	0.16%	0.66%	—	$3,312
2020	0.51%	—	0.15%	0.66%	+0.00 pts	$3,322
2021	0.51%	—	0.15%	0.66%	+0.00 pts	$3,322
2022	0.55%	—	0.15%	0.70%	+0.04 pts	$3,501
2023	0.56%	—	0.15%	0.72%	+0.02 pts	$3,583
2024	0.58%	—	0.15%	0.73%	+0.02 pts	$3,668
2025*	0.59%	—	0.15%	0.75%	+0.01 pts	$3,726

Why are Harris property taxes so low?

Harris's total rate of 0.75% is 0.65 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. There is a lot of home value to spread the budget over (homes here are worth $87.8M in total for tax purposes and pay $654K in property tax), 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 $404,503 per household, 120% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $3,205 per household, 58% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on social housing (+$14), and less on roads and bridges (−$321) and running the municipality (−$266).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social housing+$14
Roads and bridges−$321
Running the municipality−$266

What it costs to live in Harris

Cost	Harris	Ontario middle
Rent, per monththe middle rent, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$452,000Higher than 57% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a home assessed at $500,0002025	$3,726Lower than 97% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	0.0%The lowest	15.0%
Household incomethe middle household, before tax, 2020	$105,000Higher than 85% 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 Harris

The 5 places closest to Harris 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
Harris this page	0.75%	$3,726
Alberton	1.13%	$5,640
Prince	1.14%	$5,700
Oliver Paipoonge2024 rate	1.19%	$5,960
Casey	1.39%	$6,949
Laird	1.54%	$7,692

Others in Timiskaming District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Harris
Hudson	0.99%	$4,946	+$1,220
Brethour2024 rate	1.05%	$5,245	+$1,519
Coleman	1.08%	$5,381	+$1,654
James2024 rate	1.25%	$6,272	+$2,545
Armstrong	1.26%	$6,283	+$2,557
Latchford	1.28%	$6,413	+$2,687
Harley	1.30%	$6,493	+$2,767
Casey	1.39%	$6,949	+$3,223

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Harris

All 5 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 5 classes Harris 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	0.65%	—	0.88%	1.53%
Pipeline	0.7	0.41%	—	0.88%	1.29%
Large Industrial	1.185	0.70%	—	0.52%	1.22%
Residential	1	0.59%	—	0.15%	0.75%
Farmland	0.25	0.15%	—	0.04%	0.19%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Harris 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 Harris's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 402 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 54014, MAH 90611
Limits: These are the figures Harris 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.

Harris property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 97% of the 414 Ontario municipalities