Huron Shores property tax rate 2025

Huron Shores in short

$10,065 a year on a $500,000 home: $9,300 to Huron Shores council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.48 points since 2019, or $2,379 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $730 a month, home value $200,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Huron Shores 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 Huron Shores's rate: Huron Shores council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Huron Shores has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.86% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Huron Shores's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$9,300

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalHuron Shores council	1.86%	$9,300	92%
County or regionNone in Huron Shores	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	8%
Total	2.01%	$10,065	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 0.48 percentage points, from 1.54% to 2.01%. On a $500,000 home that is $2,379 a year more than in 2019.

20191.54%$7,686
20201.57%$7,853
20211.60%$8,006
20221.69%$8,446
20231.79%$8,958
20241.91%$9,540
2025^*2.01%$10,065

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Huron Shores'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 $219M to $229M, and the residential levy collected went from $3M to $5M. 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	1.38%	—	0.16%	1.54%	—	$7,686
2020	1.42%	—	0.15%	1.57%	+0.03 pts	$7,853
2021	1.45%	—	0.15%	1.60%	+0.03 pts	$8,006
2022	1.54%	—	0.15%	1.69%	+0.09 pts	$8,446
2023	1.64%	—	0.15%	1.79%	+0.10 pts	$8,958
2024	1.75%	—	0.15%	1.91%	+0.12 pts	$9,540
2025*	1.86%	—	0.15%	2.01%	+0.10 pts	$10,065

Why are Huron Shores property taxes so high?

Huron Shores's total rate of 2.01% is 0.61 percentage points above the provincial middle (1.40%). A rate that high usually means the assessment base is small relative to what the budget must cover: $228.9M of taxable residential value funds $4.6M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $195,437 per household, 7% more than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $5,293 per household, 30% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on running the municipality (+$538), roads and bridges (+$387) and social housing (+$27), and less on parks and recreation (−$466) and social and family services (−$136).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality+$538
Roads and bridges+$387
Social housing+$27
Parks and recreation−$466
Social and family services−$136

What it costs to live in Huron Shores

Cost	Huron Shores	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$730Lower than 90% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$200,000Lower than 88% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$10,065Higher than 90% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	9.3%Lower than 89% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$67,500Lower than 87% 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 Huron Shores

The 5 places closest to Huron Shores 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
Central Manitoulin2023 rate	1.47%	$7,365
Sables-Spanish Rivers	1.66%	$8,287
Black River - Matheson	1.93%	$9,625
Moonbeam2024 rate	1.99%	$9,943
Huron Shores this page	2.01%	$10,065
Blind River	2.39%	$11,961

Others in Algoma District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Huron Shores
Jocelyn2023 rate	0.99%	$4,957	−$5,108
Hilton	1.11%	$5,552	−$4,513
Prince	1.14%	$5,700	−$4,365
St Joseph	1.26%	$6,297	−$3,768
Tarbutt	1.32%	$6,605	−$3,460
Laird	1.54%	$7,692	−$2,372
Macdonald Meredith et al	1.64%	$8,222	−$1,842
The North Shore	1.70%	$8,517	−$1,548

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Huron Shores

All 9 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 9 classes Huron Shores 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	1.2408	2.31%	—	0.88%	3.19%
Large Industrial	1.2408	2.31%	—	0.88%	3.19%
Commercial	1.1	2.05%	—	0.88%	2.93%
Aggregate Extraction Property	1.009647	1.88%	—	0.51%	2.39%
Pipeline	0.7	1.30%	—	0.88%	2.18%
Residential	1	1.86%	—	0.15%	2.01%
Multi-Residential	0.85	1.58%	—	0.15%	1.73%
Farmland	0.25	0.46%	—	0.04%	0.50%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.46%	—	0.04%	0.50%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Huron Shores 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 Huron Shores's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 42 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 57023, MAH 80620
Limits: These are the figures Huron Shores 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.

Huron Shores property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 90% of the 414 Ontario municipalities