Meaford property tax rate 2024

Meaford in short

$7,426 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,640 to Meaford council, $2,021 to Grey County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.19 points since 2019, or $952 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $950 a month, home value $600,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Meaford has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2024, the newest year it has filed. Every municipality is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 of the 414 have filed 2025.

Who sets the rate

Three bodies set Meaford's rate: Meaford council at 0.93%, Grey County at 0.40%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 27% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,640$2,021$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalMeaford council	0.93%	$4,640	62%
County or regionGrey County	0.40%	$2,021	27%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	10%
Total	1.49%	$7,426	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, 2019–2024

Up every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.19 percentage points, from 1.29% to 1.49%. On a $500,000 home that is $952 a year more than in 2019.

20191.29%$6,474
20201.30%$6,519
20211.34%$6,686
20221.39%$6,939
20231.43%$7,171
20241.49%$7,426

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath.

Each part of the rate, year by year

Over the same years the residential assessment base moved from $1,542M to $1,665M, and the residential levy collected went from $20M to $25M. 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	0.78%	0.36%	0.16%	1.29%	—	$6,474
2020	0.79%	0.36%	0.15%	1.30%	+0.01 pts	$6,519
2021	0.82%	0.36%	0.15%	1.34%	+0.03 pts	$6,686
2022	0.86%	0.37%	0.15%	1.39%	+0.05 pts	$6,939
2023	0.90%	0.38%	0.15%	1.43%	+0.05 pts	$7,171
2024	0.93%	0.40%	0.15%	1.49%	+0.05 pts	$7,426

Why are Meaford property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Meaford's total rate of 1.49% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher 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 $274,250 per household, about the same as the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $4,733 per household, 10% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on running the municipality (+$285), libraries (+$134) and snow and ice (+$60), and less on water and wastewater (−$246) and parks and recreation (−$97).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality+$285
Libraries+$134
Snow and ice+$60
Water and wastewater−$246
Parks and recreation−$97

What it costs to live in Meaford

Cost	Meaford	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$950Lower than 54% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$600,000Higher than 74% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$7,426Higher than 60% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	18.9%Higher than 73% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$79,500Lower than 60% 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 Meaford

The 5 places closest to Meaford 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
Lambton Shores	1.24%	$6,191
Huron-Kinloss2024 rate	1.38%	$6,890
Meaford this page	1.49%	$7,426
Huron East	1.49%	$7,451
Kincardine	1.62%	$8,092
Trent Hills	1.67%	$8,362

Others in Grey County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Meaford
The Blue Mountains	0.99%	$4,975	−$2,451
Georgian Bluffs	1.28%	$6,391	−$1,035
Chatsworth2024 rate	1.37%	$6,831	−$595
West Grey2024 rate	1.38%	$6,891	−$535
Grey Highlands	1.41%	$7,063	−$363
Southgate2024 rate	1.54%	$7,680	+$254
Hanover2024 rate	1.60%	$8,014	+$588
Owen Sound2024 rate	1.91%	$9,551	+$2,125

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Meaford

All 8 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 8 classes Meaford 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	1.831	1.70%	0.74%	0.88%	3.32%
Commercial	1.2969	1.20%	0.52%	0.88%	2.61%
Shopping Centre	1.2969	1.20%	0.52%	0.88%	2.61%
Pipeline	0.906848	0.84%	0.37%	0.88%	2.09%
Multi-Residential	1.2206	1.13%	0.49%	0.15%	1.78%
Residential	1	0.93%	0.40%	0.15%	1.49%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.23%	0.10%	0.04%	0.37%
Farmland	0.218	0.20%	0.09%	0.04%	0.33%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Meaford 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; 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 Meaford's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 166 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 42047, MAH 47406
Limits: These are the figures Meaford 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.

Meaford property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 60% of the 414 Ontario municipalities