1.46%of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year
$7,309 a yearon a $500,000 home, or about $609 a month
Higher than 58% of the 414 Ontario municipalities
Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Further right is higher.
Lincoln 1.46%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
Lincoln
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
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Lincoln
Lincoln in short
$7,309 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,901 to Lincoln council, $3,642 to Niagara Region and $765 to schools.
Up 0.30 points since 2019, or $1,489 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,180 a month, home value $695,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.
2025 is the newest year Lincoln 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 Lincoln's rate: Lincoln council at 0.58%, Niagara Region at
0.73%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is
50% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.
$2,901$3,642$765
Portion
Rate
On $500,000
Share
MunicipalLincoln council
0.58%
$2,901
40%
County or regionNiagara Region
0.73%
$3,642
50%
EducationProvince of Ontario
0.15%
$765
10%
Total
1.46%
$7,309
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 0.30 percentage points, from 1.16% to 1.46%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,489 a year more than in 2019.
20191.16%$5,820
20201.18%$5,886
20211.19%$5,975
20221.22%$6,114
20231.28%$6,380
20241.36%$6,784
2025*1.46%$7,309
Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Lincoln'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 $3,091M to
$3,589M, and the residential levy collected went from $34M
to $52M. 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
0.44%
0.57%
0.16%
1.16%
—
$5,820
2020
0.45%
0.58%
0.15%
1.18%
+0.01 pts
$5,886
2021
0.45%
0.59%
0.15%
1.19%
+0.02 pts
$5,975
2022
0.47%
0.60%
0.15%
1.22%
+0.03 pts
$6,114
2023
0.50%
0.62%
0.15%
1.28%
+0.05 pts
$6,380
2024
0.54%
0.67%
0.15%
1.36%
+0.08 pts
$6,784
2025*
0.58%
0.73%
0.15%
1.46%
+0.10 pts
$7,309
Why are Lincoln property taxes so high?
They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Lincoln's total rate of 1.46% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 58% of 414 municipalities. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.
Home values
Homes here are assessed at $335,281 per household, 22% more than the middle ($274,250).
Spending
It spends $5,544 per household, 29% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on running the municipality (+$672), water and wastewater (+$387) and parks and recreation (+$281), and less on snow and ice (−$60) and social and family services (−$18).
← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality+$672
Water and wastewater+$387
Parks and recreation+$281
Snow and ice−$60
Social and family services−$18
More on why
Who gets the money
Of that rate, 0.73% goes to Niagara Region and 0.15% to schools; 0.58% is set by Lincoln itself.
Across Ontario
Across the 241 towns inside a county or region, the tax rate follows home values much more closely than spending: where homes are worth more, rates tend to be lower (rank correlation −0.70 for home values, 0.45 for spending). A pattern, not proof of cause.
What it costs to live in Lincoln
Cost
Lincoln
Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021
$1,180Higher than 80% of 354
$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021
$695,000Higher than 83% of 412
$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025
$7,309Higher than 58% of 414
$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021
15.1%Higher than 51% of 400
15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020
$102,000Higher than 80% 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 Lincoln
The 5 places closest to Lincoln on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.
Residential is one of 11 classes Lincoln 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
Industrial
2.63
1.53%
1.92%
0.88%
4.32%
Aggregate Extraction Property
2.140048
1.24%
1.56%
0.51%
3.31%
Commercial
1.7349
1.01%
1.26%
0.88%
3.15%
Parking Lot
1.7349
1.01%
1.26%
0.88%
3.15%
Shopping Centre
1.7349
1.01%
1.26%
0.88%
3.15%
Pipeline
1.7021
0.99%
1.24%
0.88%
3.11%
Multi-Residential
1.97
1.14%
1.44%
0.15%
2.73%
New Multi-Residential
1
0.58%
0.73%
0.15%
1.46%
Residential
1
0.58%
0.73%
0.15%
1.46%
Farmland
0.25
0.15%
0.18%
0.04%
0.37%
Managed Forest
0.25
0.15%
0.18%
0.04%
0.37%
Sources and method
Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Lincoln 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 Lincoln's 2025 total
residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 173 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 26057, MAH 18403
Limits
These are the figures Lincoln 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.