Yarmouth (town)
All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.
City introduction
Yarmouth is a port town in southwestern Nova Scotia. The Town's own history dates its founding to 1761: Champlain had arrived in 1604, naming Cape Forchu and exploring the harbour, and in 1761 and the following years the area was settled by New Englanders from Massachusetts, drawn by free land grants. The early settlers first made their homestead at Chebogue, and as more New Englanders followed, the settlement moved steadily northward through Kelly's Cove and Sand Beach to Church Hill and Yarmouth itself.
The rocky land pushed Yarmouth's people toward the sea, which provided fish and a highway to carry fish to market, while the forest supplied lumber and shipbuilding material. As local skills in shipbuilding, navigation and business grew, so did Yarmouth's fleet: at its peak as a ship-owning port in 1879, the Town's history records, Yarmouth was the second-largest port of registry in Canada in tonnage. Fishing remained the backbone of the town's prosperity, and tourism later grew out of steamship lines to Boston and the railway connection that made Yarmouth the changeover point known as the "Gateway to Nova Scotia"; post-war additions included a new ferry terminal, new public wharves and modernized fish processing plants.
Source: Town of Yarmouth — Brief History of Yarmouth (Town of Yarmouth).
Total residential tax rate chart
Yarmouth (town) total residential tax rate, 2019/20–2026/27
Bars: Yarmouth (town) total residential tax rate, by fiscal year, in dollars per $100 of assessment.
Bars only. No comparison lines are drawn: a tax rate is not a percentage change, so it cannot share the percent axis used on the other provinces' combined charts. The scope notes explain the calibre.
- Bars — Yarmouth (town) total residential tax rate ($ 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 $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 1.660 |
| 2020/21 | 1.660 |
| 2021/22 | 1.670 |
| 2022/23 | 1.690 |
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 1.690 |
| 2024/25 | 1.690 |
| 2025/26 | 1.710 |
| 2026/27 | 1.71 |
Sources for this chart:
- Total residential tax rate, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26: Government of Nova Scotia Open Data, Municipal Property Tax Rates (dataset ure8-3w7m)
- Total residential tax rate, 2026/27: Council Approves 2026-27 Operating Budget (Town of Yarmouth)
Total residential tax rate trend
The trend uses one measure only: the total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre. Each row is the rate for that fiscal year on that one measure. A year with no verified rate is shown as No data, and no earlier rate is ever repeated into a later year.
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 1.660 |
| 2020/21 | 1.660 |
| 2021/22 | 1.670 |
| 2022/23 | 1.690 |
| Fiscal year | Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment) |
|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 1.690 |
| 2024/25 | 1.690 |
| 2025/26 | 1.710 |
| 2026/27 | 1.71 |
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.
Commercial tax rate, 2026-27: $4.35 per $100, stated by the Town as unchanged, in the same operating budget approval announcement as the residential rate; a commercial rate, not part of the residential series above. Source: Council Approves 2026-27 Operating Budget (Town of Yarmouth), https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/council-approves-2026-27-operating-budget.html
Total operating budget, 2026-27: a balanced operating budget of $28,710,919 in projected revenues and expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, including $6,000,000 in donations received for the Mariners Centre expansion and a corresponding $6,000,000 payment toward that project (the budget excluding those pass-through amounts is $22,710,919). Source: Council Approves 2026-27 Operating Budget (Town of Yarmouth), https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/council-approves-2026-27-operating-budget.html
Garbage rate, 2026-27: unchanged at $205 per residential unit (the Town collects residential waste from buildings with up to four units); a flat charge, not a rate per $100 of assessment. Sewer rates and garbage rates were both stated as unchanged, and Town transit remains free. Source: Council Approves 2026-27 Operating Budget (Town of Yarmouth), https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/council-approves-2026-27-operating-budget.html
Assessment context, 2026-27: the Town reports residential assessments increased by 7.41% and commercial assessments by 5.63% overall, providing approximately $867,718 in additional revenue, and notes that individual assessments and resulting tax bills may vary — which is why the unchanged rate above is not presented as an unchanged bill. Source: Council Approves 2026-27 Operating Budget (Town of Yarmouth), https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/council-approves-2026-27-operating-budget.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 Yarmouth (town) 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
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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 Yarmouth source before relying on a figure.