Township · Eastern Ontario · Leeds and Grenville UCo
At 1.1127%, Rideau Lakes sits 90 of 386 Ontario municipalities ranked cheapest to most expensive — 18% below the provincial median of 1.3516%. On a $500,000 assessment that works out to $5,563 a year, or $464 a month.
Rideau Lakes has already filed 2025: 1.1653% total, +4.73% against 2024 — $5,826 on a $500,000 assessment. Rankings on this site still use 2024, because only 282 of 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far and a partial year would make every rank meaningless.
Rideau Lakes is a lower-tier municipality within Leeds and Grenville UCo. Two councils tax the same property: Rideau Lakes at 0.5306% and Leeds and Grenville UCo at 0.4291%. The county portion is 39% of the total bill, and it is set by a council you vote for separately.
| Portion | Set by | Rate | On $500,000 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal | Rideau Lakes council | 0.5306% | $2,653 | 47.7% |
| Upper-tier | Leeds and Grenville UCo | 0.4291% | $2,146 | 38.6% |
| Education | Province of Ontario | 0.1530% | $765 | 13.8% |
| Total | 1.1127% | $5,563 | 100% |
Since 2019 the total rate here has risen 11.4%. Over the same period the assessment base moved from $2,245M to $2,342M, so the levy collected grew from $22M to $26M. 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.
| Year | Municipal | Upper-tier | Education | Total | Change | On $500,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 0.4670% | 0.3709% | 0.1610% | 0.9989% | — | $4,994 |
| 2020 | 0.4763% | 0.3696% | 0.1530% | 0.9990% | +0.0% | $4,995 |
| 2021 | 0.4811% | 0.3695% | 0.1530% | 1.0036% | +0.5% | $5,018 |
| 2022 | 0.4940% | 0.3783% | 0.1530% | 1.0254% | +2.2% | $5,127 |
| 2023 | 0.5126% | 0.4043% | 0.1530% | 1.0699% | +4.3% | $5,350 |
| 2024 | 0.5306% | 0.4291% | 0.1530% | 1.1127% | +4.0% | $5,563 |
| 2025 | 0.5612% | 0.4510% | 0.1530% | 1.1653% | +4.7% | $5,826 |
Rates only compare cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels. These are the municipalities most directly comparable to Rideau Lakes, which share the same upper-tier government.
| Municipality | Total rate | On $500,000 | vs Rideau Lakes | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 1.0532% | $5,266 | −$298 | 72 |
| Leeds and the Thousand Islands | 1.0869% | $5,434 | −$129 | 83 |
| Front of Yonge | 1.1536% | $5,768 | +$205 | 111 |
| North Grenville | 1.2350% | $6,175 | +$611 | 138 |
| Elizabethtown-Kitley | 1.2413% | $6,207 | +$643 | 141 |
| Augusta | 1.2923% | $6,462 | +$898 | 160 |
| Edwardsburgh-Cardinal | 1.3139% | $6,569 | +$1,006 | 176 |
| Merrickville-Wolford | 1.4703% | $7,351 | +$1,788 | 247 |
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Residential is one of 7 classes Rideau Lakes reported this year. The tax ratio column 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 | Upper-tier | Education | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial | 1.8114 | 0.9611% | 0.7773% | 0.8800% | 2.6184% |
| Pipeline | 1.6551 | 0.8781% | 0.7102% | 0.8800% | 2.4684% |
| Commercial | 1.3464 | 0.7144% | 0.5778% | 0.8800% | 2.1721% |
| Multi-Residential | 1 | 0.5306% | 0.4291% | 0.1530% | 1.1127% |
| Residential | 1 | 0.5306% | 0.4291% | 0.1530% | 1.1127% |
| Farmland | 0.25 | 0.1326% | 0.1073% | 0.0382% | 0.2782% |
| Managed Forest | 0.25 | 0.1326% | 0.1073% | 0.0382% | 0.2782% |
Rideau Lakes's total rate of 1.1127% sits 18% below the provincial median, which is not the same as a small bill. A large assessment base — $2.34B here — funds the same services at a lower percentage, so the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.
Rideau Lakes’s total residential tax rate is 1.11%, 14% below the middle lower-tier municipality (1.30%).
Of that rate, 0.43% goes to Leeds and Grenville UCo and 0.15% to schools; 0.53% is set by Rideau Lakes itself.
Homes here carry $292,947 of assessed value per household, 6% above the middle ($275,612).
It spends $2,207 per household in total, 46% below the middle ($4,124). Below: parks and recreation (−$300), roads and bridges (−$289).
Across 226 lower-tier municipalities, rates move more with home values (rank correlation -0.72) than with spending per household (0.45). That is a pattern, not proof of cause.
Closest on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among municipalities of the same tier.
Rideau Lakes reported a residential assessment base of $2B for 2024 and collected $26M in residential property tax against it. Assessment is the figure on the MPAC notice, still based on 2016 valuations province-wide, which is why it usually differs from what a house would sell for today.
These are the figures Rideau Lakes 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.
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