North Middlesex property tax rate 2023

North Middlesex in short

$7,045 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,124 to North Middlesex council, $2,156 to Middlesex County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.03 points since 2019, or $154 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $665 a month, home value $500,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

North Middlesex has not filed 2025 with the province yet, so this page uses 2023, 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 North Middlesex's rate: North Middlesex council at 0.82%, Middlesex County at 0.43%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 31% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,124$2,156$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalNorth Middlesex council	0.82%	$4,124	59%
County or regionMiddlesex County	0.43%	$2,156	31%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.41%	$7,045	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, 2019–2023

Up 0.03 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.03 percentage points, from 1.38% to 1.41%. On a $500,000 home that is $154 a year more than in 2019.

20191.38%$6,891
20201.37%$6,870
20211.34%$6,717
20221.36%$6,796
20231.41%$7,045

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 $551M to $593M, 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	0.83%	0.39%	0.16%	1.38%	—	$6,891
2020	0.83%	0.39%	0.15%	1.37%	−0.00 pts	$6,870
2021	0.79%	0.40%	0.15%	1.34%	−0.03 pts	$6,717
2022	0.81%	0.40%	0.15%	1.36%	+0.02 pts	$6,796
2023	0.82%	0.43%	0.15%	1.41%	+0.05 pts	$7,045

Why are North Middlesex property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. North Middlesex's total rate of 1.41% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: higher than 51% 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 $248,085 per household, 10% less than the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $6,823 per household, 58% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on water and wastewater (+$1,291), roads and bridges (+$757) and planning and development (+$290), and less on snow and ice (−$95) and libraries (−$82).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Water and wastewater+$1,291
Roads and bridges+$757
Planning and development+$290
Snow and ice−$95
Libraries−$82

What it costs to live in North Middlesex

Cost	North Middlesex	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$665Lower than 95% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$500,000Higher than 60% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2023	$7,045Higher than 51% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.3%Lower than 73% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$89,000Higher 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 North Middlesex

The 5 places closest to North Middlesex 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
Adelaide-Metcalfe	1.39%	$6,951
North Middlesex this page	1.41%	$7,045
Minto	1.44%	$7,188
Merrickville-Wolford	1.54%	$7,699
Southwest Middlesex2024 rate	1.59%	$7,940
Malahide	1.65%	$8,228

Others in Middlesex County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs North Middlesex
Thames Centre2023 rate	1.05%	$5,266	−$1,779
Middlesex Centre	1.31%	$6,553	−$492
Lucan Biddulph	1.32%	$6,624	−$421
Adelaide-Metcalfe	1.39%	$6,951	−$94
Strathroy-Caradoc	1.42%	$7,098	+$53
Newbury2023 rate	1.56%	$7,819	+$774
Southwest Middlesex2024 rate	1.59%	$7,940	+$895
London	1.68%	$8,382	+$1,337

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on North Middlesex

All 8 property classes, 2023

Residential is one of 8 classes North Middlesex 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	1.7451	1.44%	0.75%	0.88%	3.07%
Multi-Residential	1.7697	1.46%	0.76%	0.15%	2.38%
Commercial	1.1449	0.94%	0.49%	0.88%	2.32%
Pipeline	1.0555	0.87%	0.46%	0.88%	2.21%
New Multi-Residential	1	0.82%	0.43%	0.15%	1.41%
Residential	1	0.82%	0.43%	0.15%	1.41%
Farmland	0.25	0.21%	0.11%	0.04%	0.35%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.21%	0.11%	0.04%	0.35%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that North Middlesex 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; 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 North Middlesex's 2023 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 202 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 39041, MAH 59619
Limits: These are the figures North Middlesex 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.

North Middlesex property tax rate, 2023

Higher than 51% of the 414 Ontario municipalities