Sault Ste Marie property tax rate 2025

Sault Ste Marie in short

$8,687 a year on a $500,000 home: $7,922 to Sault Ste Marie council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.27 points since 2019, or $1,331 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $890 a month, home value $250,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Sault Ste Marie has filed, so this page uses it. 283 of Ontario’s 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far, and Sault Ste Marie is compared with them. In 2024, when all of them had filed, Sault Ste Marie was higher than 81% at 1.71%.

Who sets the rate

Two bodies set Sault Ste Marie's rate: Sault Ste Marie council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Sault Ste Marie has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 1.58% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Sault Ste Marie's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$7,922$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalSault Ste Marie council	1.58%	$7,922	91%
County or regionNone in Sault Ste Marie	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	9%
Total	1.74%	$8,687	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 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.27 percentage points, from 1.47% to 1.74%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,331 a year more than in 2019.

20191.47%$7,356
20201.47%$7,367
20211.53%$7,644
20221.59%$7,939
20231.65%$8,256
20241.71%$8,534
2025^*1.74%$8,687

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Sault Ste Marie'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 $5,502M to $5,695M, and the residential levy collected went from $79M to $99M. 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	1.31%	—	0.16%	1.47%	—	$7,356
2020	1.32%	—	0.15%	1.47%	+0.00 pts	$7,367
2021	1.38%	—	0.15%	1.53%	+0.06 pts	$7,644
2022	1.43%	—	0.15%	1.59%	+0.06 pts	$7,939
2023	1.50%	—	0.15%	1.65%	+0.06 pts	$8,256
2024	1.55%	—	0.15%	1.71%	+0.06 pts	$8,534
2025*	1.58%	—	0.15%	1.74%	+0.03 pts	$8,687

Why are Sault Ste Marie property taxes so high?

Sault Ste Marie's total rate of 1.74% is 0.34 percentage points above the provincial middle (1.39%). A rate that high usually means the assessment base is small relative to what the budget must cover: $5.70B of taxable residential value funds $98.9M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $171,047 per household, 6% less than the middle ($182,514).

Spending

It spends $7,288 per household, about the same as the middle ($7,212). It spends more on police (+$973), social and family services (+$400) and public transit (+$328), and less on roads and bridges (−$519) and running the municipality (−$339).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Police+$973
Social and family services+$400
Public transit+$328
Roads and bridges−$519
Running the municipality−$339

What it costs to live in Sault Ste Marie

Cost	Sault Ste Marie	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$890Lower than 67% of 329	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$250,000Lower than 81% of 384	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$8,687Higher than 81% of 283	$6,964
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	16.1%Higher than 59% of 373	14.9%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$73,000Lower than 75% of 377	$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 Sault Ste Marie

The 5 places closest to Sault Ste Marie on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among places with no county above them.

Place	2025 rate	On $500,000
Orillia	1.51%	$7,559
Quinte West	1.53%	$7,645
Sault Ste Marie this page	1.74%	$8,687
Chatham-Kent	1.75%	$8,759
North Bay	1.75%	$8,761
Espanola	1.90%	$9,516

Others in Algoma District

Municipalities that share Sault Ste Marie's county or district that have filed 2025. Rates compare most cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels.

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Sault Ste Marie
Hilton	1.11%	$5,552	−$3,135
Prince	1.14%	$5,700	−$2,987
St Joseph	1.26%	$6,297	−$2,390
Tarbutt	1.32%	$6,605	−$2,082
Laird	1.54%	$7,692	−$995
Macdonald Meredith et al	1.64%	$8,222	−$465
The North Shore	1.70%	$8,517	−$170
Spanish	1.82%	$9,110	+$423

All 283 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Sault Ste Marie

All 13 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 13 classes Sault Ste Marie 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
Large Industrial	6.792239	10.70%	—	0.88%	11.58%
Industrial	3.824401	6.02%	—	0.88%	6.90%
Aggregate Extraction Property	3.453236	5.44%	—	0.51%	5.95%
Office Building	2.680286	4.25%	—	0.88%	5.13%
Pipeline	2.09391	3.32%	—	0.88%	4.20%
Shopping Centre	2.046725	3.24%	—	0.88%	4.12%
Commercial	1.928025	3.05%	—	0.88%	3.93%
Parking Lot	1.425444	2.26%	—	0.88%	3.14%
Multi-Residential	1.082	1.71%	—	0.15%	1.87%
New Multi-Residential	1.082	1.71%	—	0.15%	1.87%
Residential	1	1.58%	—	0.15%	1.74%
Farmland	0.25	0.40%	—	0.04%	0.43%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.40%	—	0.04%	0.43%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Sault Ste Marie 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 Sault Ste Marie's 2025 total residential rate with all 283 Ontario municipalities: 54 of the other 282 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 57061, MAH 80101
Limits: These are the figures Sault Ste Marie 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.

Sault Ste Marie property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 81% of the 283 Ontario municipalities that have filed 2025