Cambridge: questions buyers ask
What is the 2026 residential property tax rate in Cambridge?
The City's 2026 Property Tax Rates table on its taxes page.
Sources checked October 28, 2026
About 1.51% of assessed value: Cambridge's 2026 residential rate, from Cambridge tax rate by-law, 2026 (checked 6 Oct 2026).
31st highest of 61 towns. Lowest: Markham, 0.72%.
- The recordProperty tax for 2026
- Where to read itTaxes
- The free check reads itPick “Property tax rate”
What the record shows
The City's table writes the rates as decimals. For residential property (class RT) in 2026 it shows 0.0051735 for the City of Cambridge, 0.0084183 for the Region of Waterloo and 0.0015300 for education, a total of 0.0151218, or 1.51218% of assessed value.
The City's page says the tax is the combined rate multiplied by the current value assessment set by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), that the City's and the Region's rates come from the annual budget, and that the Province sets the school board rates. An asking price is not an assessed value, and the class matters: the same table puts multi-residential property at 0.0280341.
Where to read it yourself
- Taxes: the City's page: how the tax is calculated and the 2026 rates by class
What OfferDue covers in Cambridge
Property tax rate is in the free check from our hand-kept table of municipal rates, with a link to the City's page; the full report adds water and sewer rates. It is a published rate, not a tax certificate, an arrears search or the bill for a particular home.
Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. Records change and can be incomplete, and this page describes the records, not any particular home. What we cover, city by city.