James property tax rate 2024

James in short

$6,272 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,507 to James council and $765 to schools.
Down 0.06 points since 2019, or $322 a year less on a $500,000 home.
Rent $572 a month, home value $200,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

James has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2024, 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 James's rate: James council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. James has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.10% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing James's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,507$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalJames council	1.10%	$5,507	88%
County or regionNone in James	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	12%
Total	1.25%	$6,272	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, 2019–2024

Down 0.06 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has fallen by 0.06 percentage points, from 1.32% to 1.25%. On a $500,000 home that is $322 a year less than in 2019.

20191.32%$6,593
20201.15%$5,771
20211.15%$5,771
20221.15%$5,771
20231.20%$5,980
20241.25%$6,272

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 $38M to $39M, and the residential levy collected went from $0M to $0M. 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	1.16%	—	0.16%	1.32%	—	$6,593
2020	1.00%	—	0.15%	1.15%	−0.16 pts	$5,771
2021	1.00%	—	0.15%	1.15%	+0.00 pts	$5,771
2022	1.00%	—	0.15%	1.15%	+0.00 pts	$5,771
2023	1.04%	—	0.15%	1.20%	+0.04 pts	$5,980
2024	1.10%	—	0.15%	1.25%	+0.06 pts	$6,272

Why are James property taxes so low?

James's total rate of 1.25% is 0.14 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. The taxable value is large next to what the budget must cover — $39.1M of residential value funds $491K in levy here — 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 $148,220 per household, 19% less than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $6,717 per household, 11% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on running the municipality (+$942), libraries (+$236) and garbage and recycling (+$33), and less on parks and recreation (−$280) and social and family services (−$239).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality+$942
Libraries+$236
Garbage and recycling+$33
Parks and recreation−$280
Social and family services−$239

What it costs to live in James

Cost	James	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$572Lower than 99% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$200,000Lower than 88% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$6,272Lower than 66% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	16.7%Higher than 63% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$66,000Lower than 89% 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 James

The 5 places closest to James 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
Dawson	1.22%	$6,116
James this page	1.25%	$6,272
Machin	1.33%	$6,644
Baldwin	1.39%	$6,964
Chamberlain	1.43%	$7,161
La Vallee	1.63%	$8,146

Others in Timiskaming District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs James
Harris	0.75%	$3,726	−$2,545
Hudson	0.99%	$4,946	−$1,325
Brethour2024 rate	1.05%	$5,245	−$1,026
Coleman	1.08%	$5,381	−$891
Armstrong	1.26%	$6,283	+$12
Latchford	1.28%	$6,413	+$142
Harley	1.30%	$6,493	+$222
Casey	1.39%	$6,949	+$677

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on James

All 6 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 6 classes James 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
Large Industrial	7.304088	7.83%	—	0.88%	8.71%
Industrial	4.794385	5.14%	—	0.88%	6.02%
Commercial	2.73521	2.93%	—	0.88%	3.81%
Multi-Residential	2.419631	2.52%	—	0.15%	2.68%
Residential	1	1.10%	—	0.15%	1.25%
Farmland	0.25	0.28%	—	0.04%	0.31%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that James 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; 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 James's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 272 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 54042, MAH 90614
Limits: These are the figures James 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.

James property tax rate, 2024

Lower than 66% of the 414 Ontario municipalities