Kearney property tax rate 2024

Kearney in short

$5,809 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,044 to Kearney council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.16 points since 2019, or $792 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Kearney 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 Kearney's rate: Kearney council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Kearney has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.01% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Kearney's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,044$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalKearney council	1.01%	$5,044	87%
County or regionNone in Kearney	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	13%
Total	1.16%	$5,809	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

Up every year since 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.16 percentage points, from 1.00% to 1.16%. On a $500,000 home that is $792 a year more than in 2019.

20191.00%$5,017
20201.00%$5,009
20211.02%$5,077
20221.05%$5,247
20231.10%$5,479
20241.16%$5,809

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 $360M to $386M, and the residential levy collected went from $4M to $4M. 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	0.84%	—	0.16%	1.00%	—	$5,017
2020	0.85%	—	0.15%	1.00%	−0.00 pts	$5,009
2021	0.86%	—	0.15%	1.02%	+0.01 pts	$5,077
2022	0.90%	—	0.15%	1.05%	+0.03 pts	$5,247
2023	0.94%	—	0.15%	1.10%	+0.05 pts	$5,479
2024	1.01%	—	0.15%	1.16%	+0.07 pts	$5,809

Why are Kearney property taxes so low?

Kearney's total rate of 1.16% is 0.24 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 — $386.2M of residential value funds $4.5M 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 $323,150 per household, 76% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $4,278 per household, 43% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on garbage and recycling (+$131), snow and ice (+$111) and fire (+$77), and less on running the municipality (−$338) and parks and recreation (−$226).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Garbage and recycling+$131
Snow and ice+$111
Fire+$77
Running the municipality−$338
Parks and recreation−$226

What it costs to live in Kearney

Cost	Kearney	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$500,000Higher than 60% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$5,809Lower than 74% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	15.4%Higher than 52% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$68,000Lower than 86% 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 Kearney

The 5 places closest to Kearney 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
The Archipelago	0.41%	$2,051
Whitestone2024 rate	0.72%	$3,614
Carling	0.74%	$3,712
Kearney this page	1.16%	$5,809
Billings2024 rate	1.34%	$6,723
Ryerson	1.45%	$7,263

Others in Parry Sound District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Kearney
The Archipelago	0.41%	$2,051	−$3,759
Seguin	0.59%	$2,926	−$2,883
Whitestone2024 rate	0.72%	$3,614	−$2,195
Carling	0.74%	$3,712	−$2,097
McKellar	0.78%	$3,903	−$1,906
McDougall	0.83%	$4,149	−$1,660
Armour	0.96%	$4,804	−$1,006
Perry	0.97%	$4,839	−$970

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Kearney

All 6 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 6 classes Kearney 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	1.11%	—	0.60%	1.71%
Industrial	0.8805	0.89%	—	0.79%	1.68%
Multi-Residential	1	1.01%	—	0.15%	1.16%
Residential	1	1.01%	—	0.15%	1.16%
Farmland	0.25	0.25%	—	0.04%	0.29%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.25%	—	0.04%	0.29%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Kearney 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 Kearney's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 306 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 49018, MAH 86401
Limits: These are the figures Kearney 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.

Kearney property tax rate, 2024

Lower than 74% of the 414 Ontario municipalities