Stirling-Rawdon property tax rate 2024

Stirling-Rawdon in short

$8,720 a year on a $500,000 home: $6,271 to Stirling-Rawdon council, $1,683 to Hastings County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.26 points since 2019, or $1,316 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $940 a month, home value $400,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

Stirling-Rawdon 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 Stirling-Rawdon's rate: Stirling-Rawdon council at 1.25%, Hastings County at 0.34%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 19% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$6,271$1,683$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalStirling-Rawdon council	1.25%	$6,271	72%
County or regionHastings County	0.34%	$1,683	19%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	9%
Total	1.74%	$8,720	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 0.26 points since 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.26 percentage points, from 1.48% to 1.74%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,316 a year more than in 2019.

20191.48%$7,403
20201.51%$7,571
20211.52%$7,622
20221.50%$7,523
20231.59%$7,927
20241.74%$8,720

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 $394M to $443M, 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	1.04%	0.28%	0.16%	1.48%	—	$7,403
2020	1.07%	0.29%	0.15%	1.51%	+0.03 pts	$7,571
2021	1.07%	0.30%	0.15%	1.52%	+0.01 pts	$7,622
2022	1.05%	0.31%	0.15%	1.50%	−0.02 pts	$7,523
2023	1.11%	0.32%	0.15%	1.59%	+0.08 pts	$7,927
2024	1.25%	0.34%	0.15%	1.74%	+0.16 pts	$8,720

Why are Stirling-Rawdon property taxes so high?

Stirling-Rawdon's total rate of 1.74% is 0.35 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: $442.7M of taxable residential value funds $7.7M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $213,463 per household, 22% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $5,593 per household, 30% more than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on roads and bridges (+$1,036), garbage and recycling (+$198) and fire (+$82), and less on parks and recreation (−$180) and water and wastewater (−$132).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Roads and bridges+$1,036
Garbage and recycling+$198
Fire+$82
Parks and recreation−$180
Water and wastewater−$132

What it costs to live in Stirling-Rawdon

Cost	Stirling-Rawdon	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$940Lower than 57% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$400,000The same as the middle	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$8,720Higher than 79% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	15.8%Higher than 56% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$81,000Lower than 55% 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 Stirling-Rawdon

The 5 places closest to Stirling-Rawdon 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
West Elgin	1.55%	$7,746
Southwest Middlesex2024 rate	1.59%	$7,940
Morris-Turnberry	1.66%	$8,284
Stirling-Rawdon this page	1.74%	$8,720
Dutton-Dunwich2024 rate	1.82%	$9,087
Bancroft	2.15%	$10,755

Others in Hastings County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Stirling-Rawdon
Belleville	1.23%	$6,135	−$2,585
Tweed2024 rate	1.33%	$6,669	−$2,051
Faraday	1.34%	$6,677	−$2,043
Tudor and Cashel	1.36%	$6,805	−$1,914
Madoc2023 rate	1.37%	$6,857	−$1,863
Hastings Highlands	1.41%	$7,067	−$1,652
Tyendinaga	1.43%	$7,168	−$1,552
Limerick	1.51%	$7,528	−$1,191

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Stirling-Rawdon

All 8 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 8 classes Stirling-Rawdon 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	1.1	1.38%	0.37%	0.88%	2.63%
Industrial	1.1	1.38%	0.37%	0.88%	2.63%
Parking Lot	1.1	1.38%	0.37%	0.88%	2.63%
Pipeline	0.8219	1.03%	0.28%	0.88%	2.19%
Multi-Residential	1	1.25%	0.34%	0.15%	1.74%
Residential	1	1.25%	0.34%	0.15%	1.74%
Farmland	0.25	0.31%	0.08%	0.04%	0.44%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.31%	0.08%	0.04%	0.44%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Stirling-Rawdon 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 Stirling-Rawdon's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 88 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 12017, MAH 51622
Limits: These are the figures Stirling-Rawdon 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.

Stirling-Rawdon property tax rate, 2024

Higher than 79% of the 414 Ontario municipalities