Wainfleet property tax rate 2025

Wainfleet in short

$8,780 a year on a $500,000 home: $4,372 to Wainfleet council, $3,642 to Niagara Region and $765 to schools.
Up 0.42 points since 2019, or $2,096 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,000 a month, home value $650,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Wainfleet has filed. Every municipality on this site is compared at its newest filed rate: 283 have filed 2025, and the other 131 are at their newest year, mostly 2024.

Who sets the rate

Three bodies set Wainfleet's rate: Wainfleet council at 0.87%, Niagara Region at 0.73%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 41% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$4,372$3,642$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalWainfleet council	0.87%	$4,372	50%
County or regionNiagara Region	0.73%	$3,642	41%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	9%
Total	1.76%	$8,780	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 0.42 percentage points, from 1.34% to 1.76%. On a $500,000 home that is $2,096 a year more than in 2019.

20191.34%$6,684
20201.37%$6,837
20211.42%$7,082
20221.50%$7,505
20231.56%$7,805
20241.65%$8,243
2025^*1.76%$8,780

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Wainfleet'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 $907M to $973M, and the residential levy collected went from $12M to $17M. 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	0.61%	0.57%	0.16%	1.34%	—	$6,684
2020	0.64%	0.58%	0.15%	1.37%	+0.03 pts	$6,837
2021	0.68%	0.59%	0.15%	1.42%	+0.05 pts	$7,082
2022	0.74%	0.60%	0.15%	1.50%	+0.08 pts	$7,505
2023	0.78%	0.62%	0.15%	1.56%	+0.06 pts	$7,805
2024	0.83%	0.67%	0.15%	1.65%	+0.09 pts	$8,243
2025*	0.87%	0.73%	0.15%	1.76%	+0.11 pts	$8,780

Why are Wainfleet property taxes so high?

Wainfleet's total rate of 1.76% is 0.36 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: $973.3M of taxable residential value funds $17.1M in levy here.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $295,939 per household, 8% more than the middle ($274,250).

Spending

It spends $3,497 per household, 19% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on fire (+$399), roads and bridges (+$260) and planning and development (+$242), and less on running the municipality (−$392) and parks and recreation (−$89).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Fire+$399
Roads and bridges+$260
Planning and development+$242
Running the municipality−$392
Parks and recreation−$89

What it costs to live in Wainfleet

Cost	Wainfleet	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,000Higher than 53% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$650,000Higher than 82% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$8,780Higher than 80% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	13.1%Lower than 64% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$96,000Higher than 72% 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 Wainfleet

The 5 places closest to Wainfleet 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
Champlain	1.38%	$6,904
Augusta	1.40%	$7,007
Brighton2024 rate	1.45%	$7,265
Stone Mills	1.46%	$7,291
Centre Hastings	1.76%	$8,776
Wainfleet this page	1.76%	$8,780

Others in Niagara Region

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Wainfleet
Grimsby2024 rate	1.14%	$5,695	−$3,084
Niagara-on-the-Lake	1.16%	$5,809	−$2,970
West Lincoln	1.33%	$6,628	−$2,152
Lincoln	1.46%	$7,309	−$1,471
St Catharines2024 rate	1.46%	$7,318	−$1,461
Niagara Falls2024 rate	1.49%	$7,469	−$1,310
Thorold	1.56%	$7,823	−$957
Pelham	1.60%	$8,006	−$774

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Wainfleet

All 8 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 8 classes Wainfleet 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	2.63	2.30%	1.92%	0.88%	5.10%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.140048	1.87%	1.56%	0.51%	3.94%
Commercial	1.7349	1.52%	1.26%	0.88%	3.66%
Pipeline	1.7021	1.49%	1.24%	0.88%	3.61%
Multi-Residential	1.97	1.72%	1.44%	0.15%	3.31%
Residential	1	0.87%	0.73%	0.15%	1.76%
Farmland	0.25	0.22%	0.18%	0.04%	0.44%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.22%	0.18%	0.04%	0.44%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Wainfleet 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 Wainfleet's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 83 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 26014, MAH 18601
Limits: These are the figures Wainfleet 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.

Wainfleet property tax rate, 2025

Higher than 80% of the 414 Ontario municipalities