Mattawa property tax rate 2025

Mattawa in short

$10,897 a year on a $500,000 home: $10,132 to Mattawa council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.10 points since 2019, or $494 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $750 a month, home value $200,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Mattawa 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 Mattawa's rate: Mattawa council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Mattawa has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 2.03% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Mattawa's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$10,132

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalMattawa council	2.03%	$10,132	93%
County or regionNone in Mattawa	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	7%
Total	2.18%	$10,897	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 0.06 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.10 percentage points, from 2.08% to 2.18%. On a $500,000 home that is $494 a year more than in 2019.

20192.08%$10,403
20202.07%$10,346
20212.10%$10,478
20222.09%$10,455
20232.13%$10,669
20242.14%$10,719
2025^*2.18%$10,897

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Mattawa'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 $88M to $91M, and the residential levy collected went from $2M to $2M. 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	1.92%	—	0.16%	2.08%	—	$10,403
2020	1.92%	—	0.15%	2.07%	−0.01 pts	$10,346
2021	1.94%	—	0.15%	2.10%	+0.03 pts	$10,478
2022	1.94%	—	0.15%	2.09%	−0.00 pts	$10,455
2023	1.98%	—	0.15%	2.13%	+0.04 pts	$10,669
2024	1.99%	—	0.15%	2.14%	+0.01 pts	$10,719
2025*	2.03%	—	0.15%	2.18%	+0.04 pts	$10,897

Why are Mattawa property taxes so high?

Mattawa's total rate of 2.18% is 0.78 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: $91.0M of taxable residential value funds $2.0M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $105,789 per household, 42% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $9,011 per household, 19% more than the middle ($7,558). It spends more on planning and development (+$1,088), running the municipality (+$817) and garbage and recycling (+$654), and less on water and wastewater (−$124) and snow and ice (−$120).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Planning and development+$1,088
Running the municipality+$817
Garbage and recycling+$654
Water and wastewater−$124
Snow and ice−$120

What it costs to live in Mattawa

Cost	Mattawa	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$750Lower than 86% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$200,000Lower than 88% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$10,897Higher than 92% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	21.6%Higher than 84% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$53,200Lower than 99% 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 Mattawa

The 5 places closest to Mattawa 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
Cornwall2024 rate	1.84%	$9,212
Smiths Falls2024 rate	1.95%	$9,746
Thessalon	1.97%	$9,828
Gore Bay	2.14%	$10,719
Mattawa this page	2.18%	$10,897
Hornepayne2024 rate	5.30%	$26,489

Others in Nipissing District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Mattawa
Temagami	1.13%	$5,633	−$5,264
South Algonquin	1.14%	$5,689	−$5,208
East Ferris	1.17%	$5,874	−$5,023
Papineau-Cameron	1.35%	$6,763	−$4,133
West Nipissing2024 rate	1.35%	$6,765	−$4,132
Chisholm2024 rate	1.42%	$7,113	−$3,784
Calvin2024 rate	1.45%	$7,266	−$3,631
Bonfield	1.50%	$7,504	−$3,393

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Mattawa

All 6 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 6 classes Mattawa 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	2.1688	4.39%	—	0.88%	5.27%
Commercial	1.5976	3.24%	—	0.88%	4.12%
Pipeline	1.1764	2.38%	—	0.88%	3.26%
Multi-Residential	1.4053	2.85%	—	0.15%	3.00%
New Multi-Residential	1.1	2.23%	—	0.15%	2.38%
Residential	1	2.03%	—	0.15%	2.18%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Mattawa 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 Mattawa's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 31 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 48021, MAH 85403
Limits: These are the figures Mattawa 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.

Mattawa property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 92% of the 414 Ontario municipalities