Ignace property tax rate 2021

Ignace in short

$13,155 a year on a $500,000 home: $12,390 to Ignace council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.05 points since 2019, or $231 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $775 a month, home value $134,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Ignace has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2021, the newest year it has filed. Every municipality is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 of the 414 have filed 2025.

Who sets the rate

Two bodies set Ignace's rate: Ignace council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Ignace has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 2.48% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Ignace's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$12,390

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalIgnace council	2.48%	$12,390	94%
County or regionNone in Ignace	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	6%
Total	2.63%	$13,155	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, 2019–2021

Up 0.05 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.05 percentage points, from 2.58% to 2.63%. On a $500,000 home that is $231 a year more than in 2019.

20192.58%$12,924
20202.58%$12,884
20212.63%$13,155

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $53M to $53M, 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	2.42%	—	0.16%	2.58%	—	$12,924
2020	2.42%	—	0.15%	2.58%	−0.01 pts	$12,884
2021	2.48%	—	0.15%	2.63%	+0.05 pts	$13,155

Why are Ignace property taxes so high?

Ignace's total rate of 2.63% is 1.23 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: $52.6M of taxable residential value funds $1.4M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $95,649 per household, 48% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $12,956 per household, 71% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on planning and development (+$2,269), running the municipality (+$1,844) and water and wastewater (+$1,279), and less on social and family services (−$129) and social housing (−$110).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Planning and development+$2,269
Running the municipality+$1,844
Water and wastewater+$1,279
Social and family services−$129
Social housing−$110

What it costs to live in Ignace

Cost	Ignace	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$775Lower than 83% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$134,000Lower than 95% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2021	$13,155Higher than 96% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	13.6%Lower than 60% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$69,000Lower than 83% 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 Ignace

The 5 places closest to Ignace 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
Hearst	2.22%	$11,110
Moosonee2024 rate	2.33%	$11,654
Ignace this page	2.63%	$13,155
Val Rita-Harty2024 rate	2.72%	$13,602
Terrace Bay	3.37%	$16,835
Dubreuilville	3.48%	$17,388

Others in Kenora District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Ignace
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	0.93%	$4,626	−$8,529
Machin	1.33%	$6,644	−$6,511
Kenora	1.62%	$8,077	−$5,078
Red Lake2024 rate	1.68%	$8,397	−$4,758
Dryden	1.97%	$9,834	−$3,321
Sioux Lookout2024 rate	2.22%	$11,121	−$2,035
Ear Falls2024 rate	2.45%	$12,228	−$927
Pickle Lake	3.73%	$18,665	+$5,510

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Ignace

All 8 property classes, 2021

Residential is one of 8 classes Ignace 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	1.4746000000000001	3.65%	—	0.88%	4.53%
Commercial, NConstr.	1.4746000000000001	3.65%	—	0.88%	4.53%
Parking Lot	1.4746000000000001	3.65%	—	0.88%	4.53%
Multi-Residential	1.6837	4.17%	—	0.15%	4.33%
Pipeline	1.1009	2.73%	—	0.85%	3.58%
Industrial	1.0695000000000001	2.65%	—	0.88%	3.53%
Industrial, NConstr.	1.0695000000000001	2.65%	—	0.88%	3.53%
Residential	1	2.48%	—	0.15%	2.63%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Ignace 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; 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 Ignace's 2021 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 18 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 60001, MAH 82601
Limits: These are the figures Ignace 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.

Ignace property tax rate, 2021

Higher than 96% of the 414 Ontario municipalities