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2025 filed rates · Southwest Ontario

LaSalle vs Windsor: property tax compared

LaSalle1.89% $9,432 a year on a $500,000 home

Windsor2.10% $10,476 a year on a $500,000 home

Windsor is +0.21 pts higher: $1,045 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Where the two sit among Ontario's 414 municipalities

Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. LaSalle is higher than 85%; Windsor is higher than 91%.

LaSalle 1.89%
Windsor 2.10%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
LaSalle
Windsor
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
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LaSalle has the lower property tax rate: 1.89% against Windsor's 2.10% for 2025, a gap of 0.21 percentage points. On a $500,000 assessment that is $9,432 versus $10,476 a year — a difference of $1,045.

Side by side

Assessed valueLaSalleWindsorDifference
$300,000$5,659$6,286$627
$500,000$9,432$10,476$1,045
$750,000$14,147$15,715$1,567
$1,000,000$18,863$20,953$2,090

Assessed value, not market price. Ontario assessments still reference 2016 valuations, and the two places may sit at different distances from current market value — which is why a rate gap is not the same as a bill gap for comparable houses.

Where the difference comes from

The two are set up differently. Windsor has no county above it, while LaSalle is a town inside Essex County, paying 0.56% to the county on top of its own rate. Comparing municipal rates alone would be misleading here; only the totals are comparable.

PortionLaSalleWindsorOn $500,000
Municipal1.17%1.94%$3,845
County or region0.56%none$-2,800
Education0.15%0.15%$0
Total1.89%2.10%$1,045

2019–2025: has the gap widened?

YearLaSalleWindsorGap
20191.61%1.79%+0.18 pts
20201.61%1.78%+0.17 pts
20211.63%1.82%+0.19 pts
20221.65%1.85%+0.20 pts
20231.72%1.94%+0.22 pts
20241.80%2.03%+0.23 pts
20251.89%2.10%+0.21 pts

Which is cheaper, LaSalle or Windsor?

LaSalle, on rate. 1.89% against 2.10% means $1,045 less per year on a $500,000 assessment. Whether it is cheaper for the same house depends on how each place assesses it, which the rate alone does not tell you.

Sources and method

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
Method
Dollar figures are the rate times the assessed value shown. Gaps between two rates are in percentage points. Both figures are as filed with the province for the tax year shown.
Limits
Reference, not tax advice. An individual bill can include area-specific charges that a municipality-wide rate does not capture.