Orillia property tax rate 2025

Orillia in short

$7,559 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,794 to Orillia council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.13 points since 2019, or $634 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,180 a month, home value $552,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Orillia 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 Orillia's rate: Orillia council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Orillia has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.36% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Orillia's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$6,794$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalOrillia council	1.36%	$6,794	90%
County or regionNone in Orillia	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	10%
Total	1.51%	$7,559	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 2021. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.13 percentage points, from 1.39% to 1.51%. On a $500,000 home that is $634 a year more than in 2019.

20191.39%$6,925
20201.39%$6,933
20211.39%$6,927
20221.42%$7,114
20231.46%$7,278
20241.48%$7,392
2025^*1.51%$7,559

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Orillia'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 $3,201M to $3,634M, and the residential levy collected went from $43M to $55M. 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	1.22%	—	0.16%	1.39%	—	$6,925
2020	1.23%	—	0.15%	1.39%	+0.00 pts	$6,933
2021	1.23%	—	0.15%	1.39%	−0.00 pts	$6,927
2022	1.27%	—	0.15%	1.42%	+0.04 pts	$7,114
2023	1.30%	—	0.15%	1.46%	+0.03 pts	$7,278
2024	1.33%	—	0.15%	1.48%	+0.02 pts	$7,392
2025*	1.36%	—	0.15%	1.51%	+0.03 pts	$7,559

Why are Orillia property taxes so high?

Orillia's total rate of 1.51% is 0.11 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: $3.63B of taxable residential value funds $54.9M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $226,020 per household, 23% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $7,759 per household, about the same as the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$614), fire (+$393) and police (+$195), and less on roads and bridges (−$625) and running the municipality (−$535).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$614
Fire+$393
Police+$195
Roads and bridges−$625
Running the municipality−$535

What it costs to live in Orillia

Cost	Orillia	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,180Higher than 80% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$552,000Higher than 72% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$7,559Higher than 62% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	26.7%Higher than 97% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$71,000Lower than 79% 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 Orillia

The 5 places closest to Orillia 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
Belleville	1.23%	$6,135
Haldimand County2024 rate	1.31%	$6,535
Orillia this page	1.51%	$7,559
Norfolk County	1.57%	$7,869
London	1.68%	$8,382
North Bay	1.75%	$8,761

Others in Simcoe County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Orillia
Bradford West Gwillimbury	0.81%	$4,028	−$3,530
Essa	0.82%	$4,086	−$3,473
Adjala-Tosorontio2024 rate	0.84%	$4,219	−$3,340
Tiny2024 rate	0.85%	$4,235	−$3,324
Severn2024 rate	0.86%	$4,321	−$3,238
Springwater2024 rate	0.89%	$4,448	−$3,111
Oro-Medonte2024 rate	0.98%	$4,915	−$2,644
New Tecumseth	1.08%	$5,400	−$2,159

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Orillia

All 11 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 11 classes Orillia 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
Pipeline	2.855968	3.88%	—	0.88%	4.76%
Industrial	1.842	2.50%	—	0.88%	3.38%
Large Industrial	1.842	2.50%	—	0.88%	3.38%
Commercial	1.833	2.12%	—	0.83%	2.95%
Office Building	1.833	2.12%	—	0.83%	2.95%
Parking Lot	1.833	2.12%	—	0.83%	2.95%
Shopping Centre	1.833	2.12%	—	0.83%	2.95%
Multi-Residential	1.378	1.87%	—	0.15%	2.03%
New Multi-Residential	1.1	1.49%	—	0.15%	1.65%
Residential	1	1.36%	—	0.15%	1.51%
Farmland	0.25	0.34%	—	0.04%	0.38%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Orillia 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 Orillia's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 156 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 43052, MAH 70102
Limits: These are the figures Orillia 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.

Orillia property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 62% of the 414 Ontario municipalities