Machin property tax rate 2025

Machin in short

$6,644 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,879 to Machin council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.15 points since 2019, or $733 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $725 a month, home value $200,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Machin 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

Two bodies set Machin's rate: Machin council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Machin has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.18% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Machin's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$5,879$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalMachin council	1.18%	$5,879	88%
County or regionNone in Machin	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	12%
Total	1.33%	$6,644	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 2021. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.15 percentage points, from 1.18% to 1.33%. On a $500,000 home that is $733 a year more than in 2019.

20191.18%$5,911
20201.17%$5,871
20211.17%$5,871
20221.20%$6,019
20231.25%$6,237
20241.29%$6,443
2025^*1.33%$6,644

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Machin'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 $106M to $111M, and the residential levy collected went from $1M to $1M. 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	1.02%	—	0.16%	1.18%	—	$5,911
2020	1.02%	—	0.15%	1.17%	−0.01 pts	$5,871
2021	1.02%	—	0.15%	1.17%	+0.00 pts	$5,871
2022	1.05%	—	0.15%	1.20%	+0.03 pts	$6,019
2023	1.09%	—	0.15%	1.25%	+0.04 pts	$6,237
2024	1.14%	—	0.15%	1.29%	+0.04 pts	$6,443
2025*	1.18%	—	0.15%	1.33%	+0.04 pts	$6,644

Why are Machin property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Machin's total rate of 1.33% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 60% 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 $163,567 per household, 11% less than the middle ($183,474).

Spending

It spends $5,802 per household, 23% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$346), water and wastewater (+$166) and social and family services (+$145), and less on running the municipality (−$620) and roads and bridges (−$279).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$346
Water and wastewater+$166
Social and family services+$145
Running the municipality−$620
Roads and bridges−$279

What it costs to live in Machin

Cost	Machin	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$725Lower than 90% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$200,000Lower than 88% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$6,644Lower than 60% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	4.5%Lower than 96% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$77,500Lower than 64% 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 Machin

The 5 places closest to Machin 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
Dawson	1.22%	$6,116
James2024 rate	1.25%	$6,272
Machin this page	1.33%	$6,644
Northeastern Manitoulin & The Isl	1.35%	$6,773
Baldwin	1.39%	$6,964
La Vallee	1.63%	$8,146

Others in Kenora District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Machin
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	0.93%	$4,626	−$2,018
Kenora	1.62%	$8,077	+$1,433
Red Lake2024 rate	1.68%	$8,397	+$1,753
Dryden	1.97%	$9,834	+$3,190
Sioux Lookout2024 rate	2.22%	$11,121	+$4,477
Ear Falls2024 rate	2.45%	$12,228	+$5,584
Ignace2021 rate	2.63%	$13,155	+$6,511
Pickle Lake	3.73%	$18,665	+$12,021

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Machin

All 6 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 6 classes Machin 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	1.612918	1.90%	—	0.88%	2.78%
Pipeline	1.395561	1.64%	—	0.88%	2.52%
Industrial	1.130188	1.33%	—	0.53%	1.86%
Multi-Residential	1	1.18%	—	0.15%	1.33%
Residential	1	1.18%	—	0.15%	1.33%
Farmland	0.25	0.29%	—	0.04%	0.33%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Machin 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 Machin's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 248 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 60021, MAH 82603
Limits: These are the figures Machin 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.

Machin property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 60% of the 414 Ontario municipalities