South Bruce property tax rate 2024

South Bruce in short

$7,923 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,652 to South Bruce council, $2,507 to Bruce County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.28 points since 2019, or $1,401 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $830 a month, home value $448,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

South Bruce 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 South Bruce's rate: South Bruce council at 0.93%, Bruce County at 0.50%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 32% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,652$2,507$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalSouth Bruce council	0.93%	$4,652	59%
County or regionBruce County	0.50%	$2,507	32%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	10%
Total	1.58%	$7,923	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 0.28 percentage points, from 1.30% to 1.58%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,401 a year more than in 2019.

20191.30%$6,522
20201.30%$6,521
20211.35%$6,740
20221.40%$7,012
20231.50%$7,481
20241.58%$7,923

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 $445M to $484M, and the residential levy collected went from $6M to $8M. 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	0.75%	0.39%	0.16%	1.30%	—	$6,522
2020	0.75%	0.40%	0.15%	1.30%	−0.00 pts	$6,521
2021	0.78%	0.41%	0.15%	1.35%	+0.04 pts	$6,740
2022	0.81%	0.44%	0.15%	1.40%	+0.05 pts	$7,012
2023	0.87%	0.47%	0.15%	1.50%	+0.09 pts	$7,481
2024	0.93%	0.50%	0.15%	1.58%	+0.09 pts	$7,923

Why are South Bruce property taxes so high?

South Bruce's total rate of 1.58% is 0.19 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: $483.8M of taxable residential value funds $7.7M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $189,363 per household, 31% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $6,465 per household, 50% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$957), water and wastewater (+$204) and snow and ice (+$174), and less on running the municipality (−$115) and planning and development (−$72).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$957
Water and wastewater+$204
Snow and ice+$174
Running the municipality−$115
Planning and development−$72

What it costs to live in South Bruce

Cost	South Bruce	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$830Lower than 76% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$448,000Higher than 54% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$7,923Higher than 69% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	12.8%Lower than 68% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$88,000Higher than 59% 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 South Bruce

The 5 places closest to South Bruce on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.

Place	Newest rate	On $500,000
South Bruce this page	1.58%	$7,923
Southwest Middlesex2024 rate	1.59%	$7,940
Brooke-Alvinston	1.59%	$7,948
Petrolia	1.70%	$8,494
Goderich	1.75%	$8,773
Deep River	1.78%	$8,879

Others in Bruce County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs South Bruce
Northern Bruce Peninsula2024 rate	1.16%	$5,800	−$2,123
The South Bruce Peninsula	1.31%	$6,541	−$1,382
Huron-Kinloss2024 rate	1.38%	$6,890	−$1,033
Saugeen Shores2024 rate	1.40%	$7,008	−$915
Arran-Elderslie2024 rate	1.55%	$7,757	−$166
Kincardine	1.62%	$8,092	+$169
Brockton2024 rate	1.67%	$8,375	+$452

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on South Bruce

All 7 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 7 classes South Bruce 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
Industrial	1.7477	1.63%	0.88%	0.88%	3.38%
Commercial	1.2331	1.15%	0.62%	0.88%	2.65%
Pipeline	1.0164	0.95%	0.51%	0.88%	2.34%
Multi-Residential	1	0.93%	0.50%	0.15%	1.58%
Residential	1	0.93%	0.50%	0.15%	1.58%
Farmland	0.25	0.23%	0.13%	0.04%	0.40%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.23%	0.13%	0.04%	0.40%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that South Bruce 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 South Bruce's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 130 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 41004, MAH 41626
Limits: These are the figures South Bruce 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.

South Bruce property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 69% of the 414 Ontario municipalities