Wasaga Beach property tax rate 2025

Wasaga Beach in short

$5,937 a year on a $500,000 home: $3,621 to Wasaga Beach council, $1,552 to Simcoe County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.21 points since 2019, or $1,034 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,410 a month, home value $600,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Wasaga Beach 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 Wasaga Beach's rate: Wasaga Beach council at 0.72%, Simcoe County at 0.31%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 26% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$3,621$1,552$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalWasaga Beach council	0.72%	$3,621	61%
County or regionSimcoe County	0.31%	$1,552	26%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	13%
Total	1.19%	$5,937	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 0.21 percentage points, from 0.98% to 1.19%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,034 a year more than in 2019.

20190.98%$4,903
20200.99%$4,933
20211.00%$5,017
20221.03%$5,130
20231.09%$5,436
20241.15%$5,743
2025^*1.19%$5,937

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Wasaga Beach'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 $4,047M to $4,837M, and the residential levy collected went from $39M to $57M. 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	0.54%	0.28%	0.16%	0.98%	—	$4,903
2020	0.56%	0.27%	0.15%	0.99%	+0.01 pts	$4,933
2021	0.58%	0.27%	0.15%	1.00%	+0.02 pts	$5,017
2022	0.59%	0.28%	0.15%	1.03%	+0.02 pts	$5,130
2023	0.65%	0.29%	0.15%	1.09%	+0.06 pts	$5,436
2024	0.70%	0.30%	0.15%	1.15%	+0.06 pts	$5,743
2025*	0.72%	0.31%	0.15%	1.19%	+0.04 pts	$5,937

Why are Wasaga Beach property taxes so low?

Wasaga Beach's total rate of 1.19% is 0.21 percentage points below the provincial middle (1.40%), which is not the same as a small bill. The taxable value is large next to what the budget must cover — $4.84B of residential value funds $57.4M in levy here — so a lower percentage raises enough, and the dollar amount on an expensive house can still be high.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $326,451 per household, 19% more than the middle ($274,250). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $4,313 per household, about the same as the middle ($4,313). It spends more on parks and recreation (+$244), fire (+$84) and libraries (+$73), and less on roads and bridges (−$331) and garbage and recycling (−$205).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Parks and recreation+$244
Fire+$84
Libraries+$73
Roads and bridges−$331
Garbage and recycling−$205

What it costs to live in Wasaga Beach

Cost	Wasaga Beach	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$1,410Higher than 92% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$600,000Higher than 74% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$5,937Lower than 73% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	20.0%Higher than 78% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$76,000Lower than 68% 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 Wasaga Beach

The 5 places closest to Wasaga Beach 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
Huntsville	0.98%	$4,904
Ramara	1.09%	$5,450
Mississippi Mills2024 rate	1.13%	$5,659
Wasaga Beach this page	1.19%	$5,937
Collingwood2024 rate	1.19%	$5,951
Saugeen Shores2024 rate	1.40%	$7,008

Others in Simcoe County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Wasaga Beach
Bradford West Gwillimbury	0.81%	$4,028	−$1,909
Essa	0.82%	$4,086	−$1,852
Adjala-Tosorontio2024 rate	0.84%	$4,219	−$1,719
Tiny2024 rate	0.85%	$4,235	−$1,703
Severn2024 rate	0.86%	$4,321	−$1,617
Springwater2024 rate	0.89%	$4,448	−$1,489
Oro-Medonte2024 rate	0.98%	$4,915	−$1,023
New Tecumseth	1.08%	$5,400	−$537

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Wasaga Beach

All 9 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 9 classes Wasaga Beach 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
Pipeline	1.2966	0.94%	0.40%	0.88%	2.22%
Commercial	1.2223	0.89%	0.38%	0.88%	2.14%
Parking Lot	1.2223	0.89%	0.38%	0.88%	2.14%
Shopping Centre	1.2223	0.89%	0.38%	0.88%	2.14%
Multi-Residential	1	0.72%	0.31%	0.15%	1.19%
New Multi-Residential	1	0.72%	0.31%	0.15%	1.19%
Residential	1	0.72%	0.31%	0.15%	1.19%
Farmland	0.25	0.18%	0.08%	0.04%	0.30%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.18%	0.08%	0.04%	0.30%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Wasaga Beach 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 Wasaga Beach's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 300 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 43064, MAH 70408
Limits: These are the figures Wasaga Beach 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.

Wasaga Beach property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 73% of the 414 Ontario municipalities