Antigonish
All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.
City introduction
Antigonish presents itself to newcomers as a welcoming community with a highly educated workforce and a growing population, where economic stability is provided by the educational and health services. The Town points to a central location, time-zone benefits, proximity to the largest city in Atlantic Canada and competitive business costs as advantages for entrepreneurs, and to a local school network running from primary to grade twelve alongside St. Francis Xavier University. The Antigonish Town and County Library, popularly known as the People's Place, is described as a hub of community activities, culture and learning.
The Town also operates its own municipal electric utility, which gives it the independence to generate renewable energy for residents and earn revenue for the Town; the utility serves over 3,000 residential customers and more than 500 commercial customers in the town and bordering areas, with electricity sales of over $12 million a year. In 2014 Antigonish joined with Berwick and Mahone Bay — the other Nova Scotia towns with their own municipal electric utilities — to create the wholly municipally owned Alternative Resource Energy Authority (AREA), whose projects include the Ellershouse Wind Farm and a 1.65 MW community solar garden for Antigonish, enough to power 187 homes a year; the Town notes it was ahead of schedule in meeting Nova Scotia's 40% renewable energy deadline by 2020.
Source: Town of Antigonish — New to Antigonish? | Community (Town of Antigonish).
Total residential tax rate chart
Antigonish total residential tax rate, 2019/20–2026/27
Bars: Antigonish total residential tax rate, by fiscal year, in dollars per $100 of assessment.
Bars only. No comparison lines are drawn: a tax rate is not a percentage change, so it cannot share the percent axis used on the other provinces' combined charts. The scope notes explain the calibre.
- Bars — Antigonish total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)
Data behind the chart
The data table below carries one row per fiscal year, in order, with the total residential tax rate for that year, or “No data” where no rate was published.
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 1.090 |
| 2020/21 | 1.090 |
| 2021/22 | 1.100 |
| 2022/23 | 1.110 |
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 1.110 |
| 2024/25 | 1.130 |
| 2025/26 | 1.300 |
| 2026/27 | 1.300 |
Sources for this chart:
- Total residential tax rate, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26: Government of Nova Scotia Open Data, Municipal Property Tax Rates, dataset ure8-3w7m
- Total residential tax rate, 2026/27: Town of Antigonish, Finances & Tax Rates
Total residential tax rate trend
The trend uses one measure only: the total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre. Each row is the rate for that fiscal year on that one measure. A year with no verified rate is shown as No data, and no earlier rate is ever repeated into a later year.
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 1.090 |
| 2020/21 | 1.090 |
| 2021/22 | 1.100 |
| 2022/23 | 1.110 |
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 1.110 |
| 2024/25 | 1.130 |
| 2025/26 | 1.300 |
| 2026/27 | 1.300 |
Separate note — 2026/27 official points, not the rate series
This note is separate from the rate series above and is not part of it. It records official 2026/27 points that are stated on a different basis — general rates, average bill figures, or a class-wide budget wording — so they stay visible without being merged into the total residential rate series.
Antigonish Town Council approved a $19.5 million capital budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, with over $7 million coming from other funding sources (the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, the Province of Nova Scotia and the Government of Canada) and $7.6 million from the Town's water, electric and sewer utilities (Town of Antigonish, Antigonish Town Council Approves Capital Budget for 2026-2027, https://townofantigonish.ca/antigonish-town-council-approves-capital-budget-for-2026-2027.html).
The Town's Finances & Tax Rates page, read on 2026-11-03, states “The tax rate set for 2026-2027 is $1.30 for residential and resource and $2.90 for commercial properties per $100 of taxable assessment”, and that the Town also applies a Fire Levy of 4.4 cents per $100 of assessment. The 2026/27 entry in the series above (1.300) is that published rate — the same value as 2025/26, published by the Town as the 2026/27 rate, not carried forward. (Town of Antigonish, Finances & Tax Rates, https://www.townofantigonish.ca/finances-and-tax-rates.html)
Method
This page uses one measure only, every year: the total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre (dollars per $100 of assessment).
The 2019/20–2025/26 values are the Government of Nova Scotia Open Data Municipal Property Tax Rates table, checked row by row for this municipality. The 2026/27 value, where one is shown, is from the municipality's own adopted budget or official tax-rate document for that year.
Nova Scotia's fiscal year runs April 1 to March 31. Eligible owner-occupied homes are under the provincial Assessment Cap (CAP), which limits the annual rise in taxable assessment; individual bills can therefore move differently from the rate.
How to read this page
Bars are the Antigonish total residential tax rate for each fiscal year. The axis is a rate axis, not a percentage axis.
A taller bar is a higher rate; it says nothing by itself about how any one household's bill changed, because bills also move with assessed values and the Assessment Cap.
A year shown as “No data” has no bar. No rate is carried forward from the year before, and no value is interpolated.
Official points stated on other bases (general rates, average bill figures) are kept in the separate note, never merged into the series.
Sources
- Town of Antigonish introduction: New to Antigonish? | Community (Town of Antigonish)
- Town of Antigonish: Net Zero | Town Hall (Town of Antigonish)
- Government of Nova Scotia Open Data, Municipal Property Tax Rates, dataset ure8-3w7m
- Town of Antigonish, Finances & Tax Rates
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This page is an independent guide. It is not a government site and it is not an official site. It is general information only and is not tax advice. Check the official Town of Antigonish source before relying on a figure.