Whitestone property tax rate 2024

Whitestone in short

$3,614 a year on a $500,000 home: $2,849 to Whitestone council and $765 to schools.
Up 0.10 points since 2019, or $483 a year more on a $500,000 home.

Whitestone 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

Two bodies set Whitestone's rate: Whitestone council and the Province of Ontario, for schools. Whitestone has no county above it, so there is no county or region portion: its own rate of 0.57% already pays for services that a county would run elsewhere. That is also why comparing Whitestone's municipal rate directly against a township's understates what the township actually pays.

$2,849$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalWhitestone council	0.57%	$2,849	79%
County or regionNone in Whitestone	0.00%	$0	0%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	21%
Total	0.72%	$3,614	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 2019. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.10 percentage points, from 0.63% to 0.72%. On a $500,000 home that is $483 a year more than in 2019.

20190.63%$3,131
20200.63%$3,144
20210.63%$3,168
20220.65%$3,252
20230.68%$3,413
20240.72%$3,614

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 $593M to $631M, and the residential levy collected went from $4M to $5M. 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	0.47%	—	0.16%	0.63%	—	$3,131
2020	0.48%	—	0.15%	0.63%	+0.00 pts	$3,144
2021	0.48%	—	0.15%	0.63%	+0.00 pts	$3,168
2022	0.50%	—	0.15%	0.65%	+0.02 pts	$3,252
2023	0.53%	—	0.15%	0.68%	+0.03 pts	$3,413
2024	0.57%	—	0.15%	0.72%	+0.04 pts	$3,614

Why are Whitestone property taxes so low?

Whitestone's total rate of 0.72% is 0.68 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 — $631.5M of residential value funds $4.6M 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 $315,412 per household, 72% more than the middle ($183,474). Higher values let it raise the same money per household at a lower rate.

Spending

It spends $2,775 per household, 63% less than the middle ($7,558). It spends less on running the municipality (−$625) and parks and recreation (−$415).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Running the municipality−$625
Parks and recreation−$415

What it costs to live in Whitestone

Cost	Whitestone	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	—Not published	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$500,000Higher than 60% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2024	$3,614Lower than 99% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	17.9%Higher than 69% of 400	15.0%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020	$62,800Lower than 93% 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 Whitestone

The 5 places closest to Whitestone 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
The Archipelago	0.41%	$2,051
Whitestone this page	0.72%	$3,614
Carling	0.74%	$3,712
McKellar	0.78%	$3,903
Shuniah	0.86%	$4,287
Kearney2024 rate	1.16%	$5,809

Others in Parry Sound District

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Whitestone
The Archipelago	0.41%	$2,051	−$1,564
Seguin	0.59%	$2,926	−$688
Carling	0.74%	$3,712	+$98
McKellar	0.78%	$3,903	+$289
McDougall	0.83%	$4,149	+$534
Armour	0.96%	$4,804	+$1,189
Perry	0.97%	$4,839	+$1,225
Magnetawan	1.00%	$5,020	+$1,406

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Whitestone

All 5 property classes, 2024

Residential is one of 5 classes Whitestone 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	0.57%	—	0.88%	1.45%
Commercial	1	0.57%	—	0.59%	1.16%
Residential	1	0.57%	—	0.15%	0.72%
Farmland	0.25	0.14%	—	0.04%	0.18%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.14%	—	0.04%	0.18%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Whitestone 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 Whitestone's 2024 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 407 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 49039, MAH 86606
Limits: These are the figures Whitestone 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.

Whitestone property tax rate, 2024

Lower than 99% of the 414 Ontario municipalities