Property tax levy: 5-year growth (constant dollars)
Compound annual growth in finance.levy.own_purposes over approximately 5 years, in constant 2024 dollars.
total · 2024
- Minden Hills2.1% a year
- Dysart et al2.0% a year
- Algonquin Highlands1.9% a year
- Highlands East1.4% a year
1.5× between the largest and the smallest.
What these figures carry
- Deflated by Ontario all-items annual average CPI to constant 2024 dollars. CPI measures consumer prices, not municipal input costs; construction and fuel have moved differently.
Dysart et al
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 57% of the whole change happened between 2023 and 2024. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Minden Hills
- Measured 2018 to 2023, a span of 5 years.
Highlands East
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 93% of the whole change happened between 2019 and 2020. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Algonquin Highlands
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 55% of the whole change happened between 2023 and 2024. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Which way is better
Contested. A lower levy is better for the household paying it and worse for the municipality that has to rebuild a bridge. The atlas reports it and declines to rank it. Nothing on this page is ranked, and the bars are ordered by size rather than by merit.
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