Schreiber property tax rate 2023

Schreiber in short

$25,040 a year on a $500,000 home: $24,275 to Schreiber council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.46 points since 2019, or $2,288 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $608 a month, home value $75,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Schreiber 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

Two bodies set Schreiber's rate: Schreiber council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Schreiber has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 4.86% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Schreiber's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$24,275

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalSchreiber council	4.86%	$24,275	97%
County or regionNone in Schreiber	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	3%
Total	5.01%	$25,040	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 every year since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.46 percentage points, from 4.55% to 5.01%. On a $500,000 home that is $2,288 a year more than in 2019.

20194.55%$22,752
20204.62%$23,101
20214.70%$23,499
20224.92%$24,613
20235.01%$25,040

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 $34M to $34M, and the residential levy collected went from $1M to $2M. 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	4.39%	—	0.16%	4.55%	—	$22,752
2020	4.47%	—	0.15%	4.62%	+0.07 pts	$23,101
2021	4.55%	—	0.15%	4.70%	+0.08 pts	$23,499
2022	4.77%	—	0.15%	4.92%	+0.22 pts	$24,613
2023	4.86%	—	0.15%	5.01%	+0.09 pts	$25,040

Why are Schreiber property taxes so high?

Schreiber's total rate of 5.01% is 3.61 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: $33.9M of taxable residential value funds $1.7M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $52,144 per household, 72% less than the middle ($183,474). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $7,509 per household, about the same as the middle ($7,558). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$571), running the municipality (+$566) and water and wastewater (+$508), and less on roads and bridges (−$351) and social and family services (−$184).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$571
Running the municipality+$566
Water and wastewater+$508
Roads and bridges−$351
Social and family services−$184

What it costs to live in Schreiber

Cost	Schreiber	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$608Lower than 97% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$75,000Lower than 99% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2023	$25,040Higher than 99% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.2%Lower than 74% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$75,500Lower than 69% 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 Schreiber

The 5 places closest to Schreiber 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
Fauquier-Strickland2024 rate	2.42%	$12,120
Rainy River2024 rate	3.03%	$15,154
Chapleau2024 rate	3.38%	$16,923
Atikokan2024 rate	3.83%	$19,158
Schreiber this page	5.01%	$25,040
Manitouwadge2023 rate	6.85%	$34,240

Others in Thunder Bay District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Schreiber
Shuniah	0.86%	$4,287	−$20,754
Neebing	1.04%	$5,207	−$19,833
Oliver Paipoonge2024 rate	1.19%	$5,960	−$19,080
O'Connor	1.52%	$7,611	−$17,429
Thunder Bay2024 rate	1.60%	$8,008	−$17,032
Conmee	1.64%	$8,200	−$16,841
Dorion2024 rate	1.67%	$8,371	−$16,669
Gillies2024 rate	1.82%	$9,114	−$15,927

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Schreiber

All 3 property classes, 2023

Residential is one of 3 classes Schreiber 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
Commercial	1.98	9.61%	—	0.88%	10.49%
Multi-Residential	1.5012	7.29%	—	0.15%	7.44%
Residential	1	4.86%	—	0.15%	5.01%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Schreiber 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 Schreiber's 2023 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 2 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 58051, MAH 89611
Limits: These are the figures Schreiber 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.

Schreiber property tax rate, 2023

Higher than 99% of the 414 Ontario municipalities