Madawaska Valley property tax rate 2025

Madawaska Valley in short

$5,294 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,353 to Madawaska Valley council, $2,177 to Renfrew County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.02 points since 2019, or $99 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $755 a month, home value $332,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Madawaska Valley 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 Madawaska Valley's rate: Madawaska Valley council at 0.47%, Renfrew County at 0.44%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 41% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$2,353$2,177$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalMadawaska Valley council	0.47%	$2,353	44%
County or regionRenfrew County	0.44%	$2,177	41%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	14%
Total	1.06%	$5,294	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.02 percentage points, from 1.04% to 1.06%. On a $500,000 home that is $99 a year more than in 2019.

20191.04%$5,196
20201.03%$5,174
20211.05%$5,275
20221.07%$5,366
20231.09%$5,465
20241.13%$5,653
2025^*1.06%$5,294

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Madawaska Valley'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 $708M to $768M, 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	0.51%	0.36%	0.16%	1.04%	—	$5,196
2020	0.52%	0.37%	0.15%	1.03%	−0.00 pts	$5,174
2021	0.53%	0.38%	0.15%	1.05%	+0.02 pts	$5,275
2022	0.54%	0.38%	0.15%	1.07%	+0.02 pts	$5,366
2023	0.55%	0.39%	0.15%	1.09%	+0.02 pts	$5,465
2024	0.57%	0.41%	0.15%	1.13%	+0.04 pts	$5,653
2025*	0.47%	0.44%	0.15%	1.06%	−0.07 pts	$5,294

Why are Madawaska Valley property taxes so low?

Madawaska Valley's total rate of 1.06% is 0.34 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. The taxable value is large next to what the budget must cover — $767.6M of residential value funds $8.1M in levy here — so a lower percentage raises enough, and the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $230,379 per household, 16% less than the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $3,334 per household, 23% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$62), garbage and recycling (+$47) and snow and ice (+$20), and less on water and wastewater (−$369) and parks and recreation (−$160).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$62
Garbage and recycling+$47
Snow and ice+$20
Water and wastewater−$369
Parks and recreation−$160

What it costs to live in Madawaska Valley

Cost	Madawaska Valley	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$755Lower than 86% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$332,000Lower than 69% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$5,294Lower than 83% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	15.6%Higher than 53% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$62,800Lower than 93% 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 Madawaska Valley

The 5 places closest to Madawaska Valley 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
Frontenac Islands2024 rate	1.00%	$5,003
Madawaska Valley this page	1.06%	$5,294
Tay Valley2024 rate	1.07%	$5,344
Laurentian Valley	1.12%	$5,590
Front of Yonge	1.20%	$6,016
North Algona-Wilberforce	1.39%	$6,933

Others in Renfrew County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Madawaska Valley
Head, Clara and Maria2023 rate	0.75%	$3,764	−$1,530
Petawawa2024 rate	1.05%	$5,273	−$21
Greater Madawaska	1.10%	$5,485	+$191
Laurentian Valley	1.12%	$5,590	+$296
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan	1.21%	$6,038	+$743
Horton	1.21%	$6,075	+$780
McNab-Braeside	1.31%	$6,552	+$1,257
Laurentian Hills	1.33%	$6,652	+$1,357

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Madawaska Valley

All 7 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 7 classes Madawaska Valley 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	2.466904	1.16%	1.07%	0.88%	3.11%
Commercial	1.8147	0.85%	0.79%	0.88%	2.52%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.007336	0.94%	0.87%	0.51%	2.33%
Multi-Residential	1.9436	0.91%	0.85%	0.15%	1.91%
Residential	1	0.47%	0.44%	0.15%	1.06%
Farmland	0.25	0.12%	0.11%	0.04%	0.26%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.12%	0.11%	0.04%	0.26%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Madawaska Valley 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 Madawaska Valley's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 341 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 47023, MAH 69634
Limits: These are the figures Madawaska Valley 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.

Madawaska Valley property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 83% of the 414 Ontario municipalities