1.82%of the assessed value on your MPAC notice, each year
$9,104 a yearon a $500,000 home, or about $759 a month
Higher than 85% of the 283 Ontario municipalities that have filed 2025
Each dot is one municipality, placed by its 2025 rate. Further right is higher. The rest file 2025 later in the year.
Woodstock 1.82%
Middle 1.39%4 more, up to 4.40%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
Woodstock
Middle 1.39%4 more, to 4.40%
0.5%1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
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Woodstock
Woodstock in short
$9,104 a year on a $500,000 home: $5,968 to Woodstock council, $2,372 to Oxford County and $765 to schools.
Up 0.34 points since 2019, or $1,701 a year more on a $500,000 home.
Rent $1,190 a month, home value $536,000 in the 2021 Census, against an Ontario middle of $980 and $400,000.
2025 is the newest year Woodstock has filed, so this page uses it.
283 of Ontario’s 386 municipalities have filed 2025 so far, and Woodstock is compared with them.
In 2024, when all of them had filed, Woodstock was higher than 81% at 1.72%.
Who sets the rate
Three bodies set Woodstock's rate: Woodstock council at 1.19%, Oxford County at
0.47%, and the Province of Ontario for schools. The county portion is
26% of the bill, set by a council you vote for separately.
$5,968$2,372
Portion
Rate
On $500,000
Share
MunicipalWoodstock council
1.19%
$5,968
66%
County or regionOxford County
0.47%
$2,372
26%
EducationProvince of Ontario
0.15%
$765
8%
Total
1.82%
$9,104
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 0.34 percentage points, from 1.48% to 1.82%. On a $500,000 home that is $1,701 a year more than in 2019.
20191.48%$7,404
20201.47%$7,365
20211.50%$7,484
20221.53%$7,653
20231.59%$7,935
20241.72%$8,603
2025*1.82%$9,104
Total residential rate, with the tax on a $500,000 home underneath. *2025 is Woodstock'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 $3,692M to
$4,254M, and the residential levy collected went from $54M
to $77M. 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
0.95%
0.37%
0.16%
1.48%
—
$7,404
2020
0.95%
0.37%
0.15%
1.47%
−0.01 pts
$7,365
2021
0.98%
0.37%
0.15%
1.50%
+0.02 pts
$7,484
2022
1.00%
0.38%
0.15%
1.53%
+0.03 pts
$7,653
2023
1.04%
0.39%
0.15%
1.59%
+0.06 pts
$7,935
2024
1.12%
0.45%
0.15%
1.72%
+0.13 pts
$8,603
2025*
1.19%
0.47%
0.15%
1.82%
+0.10 pts
$9,104
Why are Woodstock property taxes so high?
Woodstock's total rate of 1.82% is 0.43 percentage points above the provincial middle (1.39%). A rate that high usually means the assessment base is small relative to what the budget must cover: $4.25B of taxable residential value funds $77.5M in levy here.
Home values
Homes here are assessed at $208,237 per household, 24% less than the middle ($275,612). Lower values mean it needs a higher rate to raise the same money.
Spending
It spends $4,965 per household, 20% more than the middle ($4,124). It spends more on police (+$839), planning and development (+$439) and fire (+$283), and less on water and wastewater (−$742) and roads and bridges (−$523).
← Less than the middleMore than the middle →
Police+$839
Planning and development+$439
Fire+$283
Water and wastewater−$742
Roads and bridges−$523
More on why
Who gets the money
Of that rate, 0.45% goes to Oxford County and 0.15% to schools; 1.12% is set by Woodstock itself.
Across Ontario
Across the 226 towns inside a county or region, the tax rate follows home values much more closely than spending: where homes are worth more, rates tend to be lower (rank correlation −0.72 for home values, 0.45 for spending). A pattern, not proof of cause.
What it costs to live in Woodstock
Cost
Woodstock
Ontario middle
Rent, per monthmedian, 2021
$1,190Higher than 81% of 329
$980
Home valueowners’ estimate, 2021
$536,000Higher than 70% of 384
$400,000
Property tax on a $500,000 assessment2025
$9,104Higher than 85% of 283
$6,964
Households spending 30% or more on housingshare of income, 2021
21.6%Higher than 85% of 373
14.9%
Household incomemedian, before tax, 2020
$82,000Lower than 54% of 377
$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 Woodstock
The 5 places closest to Woodstock on total tax rate, assessment / household, spending per household, population, 5-year growth, people per household, among towns inside a county or region.
Municipalities that share Woodstock's county or district that have filed 2025. Rates compare most cleanly between places whose assessments sit at similar levels.
Residential is one of 13 classes Woodstock 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
3.14%
1.25%
0.88%
5.27%
Large Industrial
2.63
3.14%
1.25%
0.88%
5.27%
Aggregate Extraction Property
2.140048
2.55%
1.02%
0.51%
4.08%
Commercial
1.9018
2.27%
0.90%
0.88%
4.05%
Office Building
1.9018
2.27%
0.90%
0.88%
4.05%
Parking Lot
1.9018
2.27%
0.90%
0.88%
4.05%
Shopping Centre
1.9018
2.27%
0.90%
0.88%
4.05%
Multi-Residential
2
2.39%
0.95%
0.15%
3.49%
Pipeline
1.2593
1.50%
0.60%
0.88%
2.98%
New Multi-Residential
1
1.19%
0.47%
0.15%
1.82%
Residential
1
1.19%
0.47%
0.15%
1.82%
Managed Forest
0.25
0.30%
0.12%
0.04%
0.46%
Farmland
0.2177
0.26%
0.10%
0.04%
0.40%
Sources and method
Tax rates and spending come from the Financial Information Return that Woodstock 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 Woodstock's 2025 total
residential rate with all 283 Ontario municipalities: 42 of the other 282 charge more. The five colours split them into fifths.
Municipality ID
MunID 32042, MAH 37101
Limits
These are the figures Woodstock 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.