0.98%of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year
$4,915 a yearon a $500,000 home, or about $410 a month
Lower than 88% of the 414 Ontario municipalities
Each dot is one municipality, placed by its newest filed rate. Further right is higher.
Oro-Medonte 0.98%
Middle 1.40%10 more, up to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
Oro-Medonte
Middle 1.40%10 more, to 6.85%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
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Oro-Medonte
Oro-Medonte in short
$4,915 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,652 to Oro-Medonte council, $1,497 to Simcoe County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.12 points since 2019, or $588 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,250 a month, home value $800,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.
Oro-Medonte 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 Oro-Medonte's rate: Oro-Medonte council at 0.53%, Simcoe County at
0.30%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is
30% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.
$2,652$1,497$765
Portion
Rate
On $500,000
Share
MunicipalOro-Medonte council
0.53%
$2,652
54%
County or regionSimcoe County
0.30%
$1,497
30%
EducationProvince of Ontario
0.15%
$765
16%
Total
0.98%
$4,915
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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.12 percentage points, from 0.87% to 0.98%. On a $500,000 home that is $588 a year more than in 2019.
20190.87%$4,326
20200.86%$4,284
20210.87%$4,374
20220.90%$4,501
20230.94%$4,703
20240.98%$4,915
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 $4,396M to
$4,867M, and the residential levy collected went from $37M
to $48M. 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
0.43%
0.28%
0.16%
0.87%
—
$4,326
2020
0.43%
0.27%
0.15%
0.86%
−0.01 pts
$4,284
2021
0.45%
0.27%
0.15%
0.87%
+0.02 pts
$4,374
2022
0.47%
0.28%
0.15%
0.90%
+0.03 pts
$4,501
2023
0.50%
0.29%
0.15%
0.94%
+0.04 pts
$4,703
2024
0.53%
0.30%
0.15%
0.98%
+0.04 pts
$4,915
Why are Oro-Medonte property taxes so low?
Oro-Medonte's total rate of 0.98% is 0.42 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. The taxable value is large next to what the budget must cover — $4.87B of residential value funds $47.8M in levy here — so a lower percentage raises enough, and the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.
Home values
Homes here are assessed at $563,606 per household, 106% more than the middle ($274,250). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.
Spending
It spends $4,001 per household, 7% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$515), running the municipality (+$137) and fire (+$65), and less on water and wastewater (−$654) and parks and recreation (−$238).
← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$515
Running the municipality+$137
Fire+$65
Water and wastewater−$654
Parks and recreation−$238
More on why
Who gets the money
Of that rate, 0.30% goes to Simcoe County and 0.15% to schools; 0.53% is set by Oro-Medonte itself.
Across Ontario
Across the 241 towns inside a county or region, the tax rate follows home values much more closely than spending: where homes are worth more, rates tend to be lower (rank correlation −0.70 for home values, 0.45 for spending). A pattern, not proof of cause.
What it costs to live in Oro-Medonte
Cost
Oro-Medonte
Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021
$1,250Higher than 86% of 354
$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021
$800,000Higher than 91% of 412
$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024
$4,915Lower than 88% of 414
$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021
13.6%Lower than 60% of 400
15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020
$114,000Higher than 92% 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 Oro-Medonte
The 5 places closest to Oro-Medonte on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.
Residential is one of 9 classes Oro-Medonte 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
1.2966
0.69%
0.39%
0.88%
1.96%
Commercial
1.2223
0.65%
0.37%
0.88%
1.89%
Parking Lot
1.2223
0.65%
0.37%
0.88%
1.89%
Shopping Centre
1.2223
0.65%
0.37%
0.88%
1.89%
Industrial
1.1925
0.63%
0.36%
0.88%
1.87%
Multi-Residential
1
0.53%
0.30%
0.15%
0.98%
Residential
1
0.53%
0.30%
0.15%
0.98%
Farmland
0.25
0.13%
0.07%
0.04%
0.25%
Managed Forest
0.25
0.13%
0.07%
0.04%
0.25%
Sources and method
Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Oro-Medonte 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 Oro-Medonte's 2024 total
residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 364 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 43047, MAH 70621
Limits
These are the figures Oro-Medonte 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.