Whitewater Region property tax rate 2025

Whitewater Region in short

$6,834 a year on a $500,000 home: $3,892 to Whitewater Region council, $2,177 to Renfrew County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.21 points since 2019, or $1,059 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $920 a month, home value $302,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.

2025 is the newest year Whitewater Region 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 Whitewater Region's rate: Whitewater Region council at 0.78%, Renfrew County at 0.44%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is 32% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.

$3,892$2,177$765

Portion	Rate	On $500,000	Share
MunicipalWhitewater Region council	0.78%	$3,892	57%
County or regionRenfrew County	0.44%	$2,177	32%
EducationProvince of Ontario	0.15%	$765	11%
Total	1.37%	$6,834	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 2020. Since 2019 the total rate here has risen by 0.21 percentage points, from 1.15% to 1.37%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,059 a year more than in 2019.

20191.15%$5,775
20201.15%$5,733
20211.18%$5,894
20221.20%$5,990
20231.25%$6,271
20241.30%$6,491
2025^*1.37%$6,834

Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Whitewater Region'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 $745M to $827M, and the residential levy collected went from $8M to $11M. 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	0.63%	0.36%	0.16%	1.15%	—	$5,775
2020	0.63%	0.37%	0.15%	1.15%	−0.01 pts	$5,733
2021	0.65%	0.38%	0.15%	1.18%	+0.03 pts	$5,894
2022	0.66%	0.38%	0.15%	1.20%	+0.02 pts	$5,990
2023	0.71%	0.39%	0.15%	1.25%	+0.06 pts	$6,271
2024	0.73%	0.41%	0.15%	1.30%	+0.04 pts	$6,491
2025*	0.78%	0.44%	0.15%	1.37%	+0.07 pts	$6,834

Why are Whitewater Region property taxes so high?

They are not, measured against the rest of the province. Whitewater Region's total rate of 1.37% sits close to the Ontario middle of 1.40%: lower than 54% of 414 municipalities. A bill can still feel high when the assessment is high, because the rate is only half of the calculation.

Home values

Homes here are assessed at $220,430 per household, 20% less than the middle ($274,250). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.

Spending

It spends $3,576 per household, 17% less than the middle ($4,313). It spends more on garbage and recycling (+$80) and snow and ice (+$63), and less on parks and recreation (−$271) and water and wastewater (−$211).

← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Garbage and recycling+$80
Snow and ice+$63
Parks and recreation−$271
Water and wastewater−$211

What it costs to live in Whitewater Region

Cost	Whitewater Region	Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021	$920Lower than 62% of 354	$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021	$302,000Lower than 70% of 412	$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025	$6,834Lower than 54% of 414	$6,992
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021	13.2%Lower than 62% 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 Whitewater Region

The 5 places closest to Whitewater Region 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
Lanark Highlands	1.24%	$6,193
The South Bruce Peninsula	1.31%	$6,541
Laurentian Hills	1.33%	$6,652
Alfred and Plantagenet2024 rate	1.37%	$6,832
Whitewater Region this page	1.37%	$6,834
Central Frontenac2024 rate	1.39%	$6,940

Others in Renfrew County

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

Municipality	Rate	On $500,000	vs Whitewater Region
Head, Clara and Maria2023 rate	0.75%	$3,764	−$3,070
Petawawa2024 rate	1.05%	$5,273	−$1,560
Madawaska Valley	1.06%	$5,294	−$1,539
Greater Madawaska	1.10%	$5,485	−$1,349
Laurentian Valley	1.12%	$5,590	−$1,244
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan	1.21%	$6,038	−$796
Horton	1.21%	$6,075	−$759
McNab-Braeside	1.31%	$6,552	−$282

All 414 Ontario municipalities in one table

More on Whitewater Region

All 9 property classes, 2025

Residential is one of 9 classes Whitewater Region 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
Large Industrial	2.7	2.10%	1.18%	0.88%	4.16%
Industrial	2.466904	1.92%	1.07%	0.88%	3.87%
Commercial	1.8147	1.41%	0.79%	0.88%	3.08%
Aggregate Extraction Property	2.007336	1.56%	0.87%	0.51%	2.95%
Multi-Residential	1.9436	1.51%	0.85%	0.15%	2.51%
Pipeline	1.3328	1.04%	0.58%	0.88%	2.50%
Residential	1	0.78%	0.44%	0.15%	1.37%
Farmland	0.25	0.19%	0.11%	0.04%	0.34%
Managed Forest	0.25	0.19%	0.11%	0.04%	0.34%

Sources and method

Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Whitewater Region 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 Whitewater Region's 2025 total residential rate with all 414 Ontario municipalities: 223 of the other 413 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID: MunID 47050, MAH 69636
Limits: These are the figures Whitewater Region 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.

Whitewater Region property tax rate, 2025

Lower than 54% of the 414 Ontario municipalities