What is St. Catharines' residential property tax rate for 2026?

For 2026 the City's table lists a residential urban rate of 1.842187%, which it says most properties pay and which includes allotments for streetlights and transit, and a general rate of 1.833408%. The City publishes the blended rate; Niagara Region's By-law 2026-16 sets the Region's part for St. Catharines homes at 0.774131% for general purposes, 0.073070% for waste management and 0.136960% for transit, 0.984161% in all, and the City's rates and the provincial education rate make up the remaining 0.858026% of the urban rate.

The City's example multiplies an assessed value of $258,000 by 1.842187% for a 2026 total of $4,752.85; local improvement levies are added on the final bill. An asking price is not an assessed value, and a rate is not a bill. The actual bill for a home, and any amount owing on it, sit with its current owner and the City.

• Tax Payments and Rates: the City's 2026 general and urban rates by property class, and its worked example
• Niagara Region By-law 2026-16: the Region's 2026 general, waste management and transit tax rates for each city and town (PDF)

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.

Free check: pick “Property tax rate” See the sample report