Town in Northeast Ontario, with no county above it
Kirkland Lake property tax rate, 2024
2.25%of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year
$11,245 a yearon a $500,000 home, or about $937 a month
Higher than 93% of the 414 Ontario municipalities
Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Further right is higher.
Kirkland Lake 2.25%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
Kirkland Lake
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
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Kirkland Lake
Kirkland Lake in short
$11,245 a year on a $500,000 home: $10,480 to Kirkland Lake council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.08 points since 2019, or $397 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $750 a month, home value $150,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.
Kirkland Lake 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 Kirkland Lake's rate: Kirkland Lake council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Kirkland Lake has no
county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 2.10%
already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Kirkland Lake's
municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.
$10,480
Portion
Rate
On $500,000
Share
MunicipalKirkland Lake council
2.10%
$10,480
93%
County or regionNone in Kirkland Lake
0.00%
$0
0%
EducationProvince of Ontario
0.15%
$765
7%
Total
2.25%
$11,245
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 2021. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.08 percentage points, from 2.17% to 2.25%. On a $500,000 home that is $397 a year more than in 2019.
20192.17%$10,848
20202.23%$11,140
20212.02%$10,097
20222.06%$10,322
20232.13%$10,666
20242.25%$11,245
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 $351M to
$356M, and the residential levy collected went from $7M
to $8M. 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
2.01%
—
0.16%
2.17%
—
$10,848
2020
2.08%
—
0.15%
2.23%
+0.06 pts
$11,140
2021
1.87%
—
0.15%
2.02%
−0.21 pts
$10,097
2022
1.91%
—
0.15%
2.06%
+0.05 pts
$10,322
2023
1.98%
—
0.15%
2.13%
+0.07 pts
$10,666
2024
2.10%
—
0.15%
2.25%
+0.12 pts
$11,245
Why are Kirkland Lake property taxes so high?
Kirkland Lake's total rate of 2.25% is 0.85 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: $355.9M of taxable residential value funds $8.0M in levy here.
Home values
Homes here are assessed at $94,416 per household, 49% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.
Spending
It spends $10,959 per household, 45% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on social and family services (+$2,912), water and wastewater (+$572) and parks and recreation (+$469), and less on running the municipality (−$327) and snow and ice (−$112).
← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Social and family services+$2,912
Water and wastewater+$572
Parks and recreation+$469
Running the municipality−$327
Snow and ice−$112
More on why
Provincial money
Social services and social housing are partly paid for by provincial transfers, so they do not map one-to-one onto the tax bill.
Across Ontario
Across the 167 places with no county above them, the tax rate follows home values much more closely than spending: where homes are worth more, rates tend to be lower (rank correlation −0.82 for home values, 0.53 for spending). A pattern, not proof of cause.
What it costs to live in Kirkland Lake
Cost
Kirkland Lake
Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021
$750Lower than 86% of 354
$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021
$150,000Lower than 92% of 412
$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024
$11,245Higher than 93% of 414
$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021
19.0%Higher than 73% of 400
15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020
$62,400Lower than 94% 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 Kirkland Lake
The 5 places closest to Kirkland Lake on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among places with no county above them.
Residential is one of 10 classes Kirkland Lake 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
3.801845
15.82%
—
1.79%
17.62%
Pipeline
2.039965
4.28%
—
0.88%
5.16%
Commercial
1.975667
4.14%
—
0.88%
5.02%
Office Building
1.975667
4.14%
—
0.88%
5.02%
Parking Lot
1.975667
4.14%
—
0.88%
5.02%
Shopping Centre
1.975667
4.14%
—
0.88%
5.02%
Multi-Residential
1.19626
2.51%
—
0.15%
2.66%
New Multi-Residential
1.1
2.31%
—
0.15%
2.46%
Residential
1
2.10%
—
0.15%
2.25%
Industrial
3.801845
1.42%
—
0.16%
1.59%
Sources and method
Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Kirkland Lake 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 Kirkland Lake's 2024 total
residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 27 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 54068, MAH 90405
Limits
These are the figures Kirkland Lake 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.