Leamington property tax rate 2025

Leamington in short

$9,479 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,914 to Leamington council, $2,800 to Essex County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.25 points since 2019, or $1,238 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,060 a month, home value $400,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Leamington has filed. Every municipality on this site is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 have filed 2025, and the other 131 are at their newest year, mostly 2024.

Who sets the rate

Three bodies set Leamington's rate: Leamington council at 1.18%, Essex County at 0.56%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 30% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$5,914$2,800

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalLeamington council	1.18%	$5,914	62%
County or regionEssex County	0.56%	$2,800	30%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	8%
Total	1.90%	$9,479	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, 2019–2025

Up every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.25 percentage points, from 1.65% to 1.90%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,238 a year more than in 2019.

20191.65%$8,242
20201.66%$8,312
20211.66%$8,324
20221.70%$8,514
20231.76%$8,786
20241.82%$9,116
2025^*1.90%$9,479

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Leamington's own filing; 104 municipalities have not filed 2025 yet.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $1,868M to $2,242M, and the residential levy collected went from $30M to $43M. 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	1.00%	0.48%	0.16%	1.65%	—	$8,242
2020	1.02%	0.49%	0.15%	1.66%	+0.01 pts	$8,312
2021	1.02%	0.49%	0.15%	1.66%	+0.00 pts	$8,324
2022	1.05%	0.50%	0.15%	1.70%	+0.04 pts	$8,514
2023	1.09%	0.52%	0.15%	1.76%	+0.05 pts	$8,786
2024	1.13%	0.54%	0.15%	1.82%	+0.07 pts	$9,116
2025*	1.18%	0.56%	0.15%	1.90%	+0.07 pts	$9,479

Why are Leamington property taxes so high?

Leamington's total rate of 1.90% is 0.50 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: $2.24B of taxable residential value funds $42.5M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $199,122 per household, 27% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $5,711 per household, 32% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on water and wastewater (+$423), planning and development (+$351) and parks and recreation (+$331), and less on roads and bridges (−$226) and libraries (−$80).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Water and wastewater+$423
Planning and development+$351
Parks and recreation+$331
Roads and bridges−$226
Libraries−$80

What it costs to live in Leamington

Cost	Leamington	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,060Higher than 66% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$400,000The same as the middle	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$9,479Higher than 85% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	18.6%Higher than 71% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$79,000Lower than 61% 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 Leamington

The 5 places closest to Leamington on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.

Place	Newest rate	On $500,000
Niagara Falls2024 rate	1.49%	$7,469
Thorold	1.56%	$7,823
Essex	1.65%	$8,243
Welland	1.71%	$8,568
Woodstock	1.82%	$9,104
Leamington this page	1.90%	$9,479

Others in Essex County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Leamington
Lakeshore2024 rate	1.38%	$6,882	−$2,597
Kingsville	1.57%	$7,842	−$1,638
Tecumseh	1.59%	$7,951	−$1,528
Essex	1.65%	$8,243	−$1,236
Pelee2024 rate	1.84%	$9,199	−$281
Amherstburg	1.85%	$9,252	−$228
LaSalle	1.89%	$9,432	−$48
Windsor	2.10%	$10,476	+$997

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Leamington

All 13 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 13 classes Leamington 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	2.6861	3.18%	1.50%	0.88%	5.56%
Industrial	1.9425	2.30%	1.09%	0.88%	4.27%
Aggregate Extraction Property	1.580625	1.87%	0.89%	0.51%	3.27%
Pipeline	1.303	1.54%	0.73%	0.88%	3.15%
Commercial	1.082044	1.28%	0.61%	0.88%	2.77%
Office Building	1.082044	1.28%	0.61%	0.88%	2.77%
Shopping Centre	1.082044	1.28%	0.61%	0.88%	2.77%
Multi-Residential	1.1	1.30%	0.62%	0.15%	2.07%
New Multi-Residential	1.1	1.30%	0.62%	0.15%	2.07%
Residential	1	1.18%	0.56%	0.15%	1.90%
Parking Lot	0.5825	0.69%	0.33%	0.63%	1.65%
Farmland	0.25	0.30%	0.14%	0.04%	0.47%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.30%	0.14%	0.04%	0.47%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Leamington 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, 2025; 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 Leamington's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 60 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 37003, MAH 45413
Limits: These are the figures Leamington 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.

Leamington property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 85% of the 414 Ontario municipalities