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2024 and 2025 filed rates · Central Ontario

Milton vs Halton Hills: property tax compared

Milton0.77% $3,870 a year on a $500,000 home

Halton Hills0.95% $4,755 a year on a $500,000 home

Halton Hills is +0.18 pts higher: $885 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Where the two sit among Ontario's 414 municipalities

Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Milton is lower than 96%; Halton Hills is lower than 90%.

Milton 0.77%
Halton Hills 0.95%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
Milton
Halton Hills
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
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Milton has the lower property tax rate: 0.77% against Halton Hills's 0.95% (Milton 2024, Halton Hills 2025, the newest each has filed), a gap of 0.18 percentage points. On a $500,000 assessment that is $3,870 versus $4,755 a year — a difference of $885.

Side by side

Assessed valueMiltonHalton HillsDifference
$300,000$2,322$2,853$531
$500,000$3,870$4,755$885
$750,000$5,805$7,132$1,327
$1,000,000$7,740$9,510$1,769

Assessed value, not market price. Ontario assessments still reference 2016 valuations, and the two places may sit at different distances from current market value — which is why a rate gap is not the same as a bill gap for comparable houses.

Where the difference comes from

Both are towns inside a county or region, both in Halton Region, so they pay the same county rate of 0.30% and the entire difference comes from their own councils.

PortionMiltonHalton HillsOn $500,000
Municipal0.32%0.48%$792
County or region0.30%0.32%$93
Education0.15%0.15%$0
Total0.77%0.95%$885

2019–2025: has the gap widened?

YearMiltonHalton HillsGap
20190.68%0.78%+0.09 pts
20200.67%0.75%+0.08 pts
20210.68%0.77%+0.09 pts
20220.70%0.79%+0.09 pts
20230.73%0.83%+0.09 pts
20240.77%0.89%+0.12 pts
2025—0.95%—

Milton has not filed 2025 yet, so the comparison above sets its 2024 rate against Halton Hills’s 2025 rate.

Which is cheaper, Milton or Halton Hills?

Milton, on rate. 0.77% against 0.95% means $885 less per year on a $500,000 assessment. Whether it is cheaper for the same house depends on how each place assesses it, which the rate alone does not tell you.

Sources and method

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
Method
Dollar figures are the rate times the assessed value shown. Gaps between two rates are in percentage points. Both figures are as filed with the province for the tax year shown.
Limits
Reference, not tax advice. An individual bill can include area-specific charges that a municipality-wide rate does not capture.