House tax by municipality
$3.72 municipal tax per $1,000 of house value
10% Rising
Up 10% in a year.
Who decides what
Main decision-maker: City of Victoria Council Show all
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw | Last decision | Next decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Victoria Council | Adopts the financial plan by bylaw each year, then sets property tax rates by bylaw before May 15. | Community Charter, s. 165 Community Charter, s. 197 | Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026 (No. 26-040) and 2026 tax rates adopted May 7, 2026 | 2027 financial plan, then tax rate bylaw before May 15, 2027 |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52.
The first row is the main decision-maker. Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
Over time
2026 Municipal tax per $1,000 of house value, by year
- $3.72 municipal tax per $1,000 of house value
M municipal election: Oct 17, 2026
Ticks on the top edge mark general election days for the governments listed under “Who decides what”. Results often lag decisions by years. About these ticks
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $3.72 |
| 2025 | $3.37 |
In plain words
The general municipal tax on the Province’s representative house in the City of Victoria, per $1,000 of the house’s value. Every Capital Region municipality is in the table below.
How we decide “Rising”
The change is 10.3% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.
Victoria, 2026: general municipal tax $4,557 on a representative house valued at $1,223,948 = $3.72 per $1,000. 2025: $4,065 on $1,204,449 = $3.37.
Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.
Keep in mind
Why it matters. It puts the City’s tax beside its neighbours’ on the same basis. Shown for context, without a better or worse label.
- The Province’s Schedule 704 shows the taxes and charges on a representative house in each municipality, with the house value it uses for that municipality. The file does not define the representative house; the Province’s statistics page explains it.
- Per $1,000 of house value is calculated here: general municipal tax ÷ house value × 1,000. It lets municipalities with very different house values be compared.
- House values differ a lot between municipalities, so the dollar amounts in the table are for different houses.
- Each council sets its own general municipal tax. School, regional district and hospital levies are set by other bodies.
By municipality
Taxes and charges on a representative house, Capital Region, 2026
| Municipality | House value | General municipal tax | Per $1,000 | Whole bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Saanich | 1,178,286 | 3,347 | 2.8 | 6,990 |
| Colwood | 1,045,718 | 2,796 | 2.7 | 5,457 |
| Esquimalt | 1,048,326 | 4,133 | 3.9 | 6,575 |
| Highlands | 1,313,498 | 2,694 | 2.0 | 5,672 |
| Langford | 992,336 | 2,938 | 3.0 | 5,295 |
| Metchosin | 1,259,740 | 2,276 | 1.8 | 4,899 |
| North Saanich | 1,598,220 | 2,171 | 1.4 | 6,261 |
| Oak Bay | 1,973,082 | 6,749 | 3.4 | 12,931 |
| Saanich | 1,293,249 | 4,235 | 3.3 | 8,454 |
| Sidney | 1,069,109 | 2,669 | 2.5 | 6,020 |
| Sooke | 807,310 | 2,210 | 2.7 | 4,929 |
| Victoria | 1,223,948 | 4,557 | 3.7 | 8,213 |
| View Royal | 1,151,900 | 2,699 | 2.3 | 5,617 |
Rows with RD = “CAP” in the Province’s Schedule 704. Dollars. Per $1,000 is calculated here.
Which places
Area: City of Victoria
The City of Victoria municipality only, all neighbourhoods.
Included
- All City of Victoria neighbourhoods, including Downtown, James Bay, Fairfield, Fernwood, Oaklands, Hillside/Quadra, North Park, Burnside, Victoria West, Rockland, Jubilee and Gonzales
Not included
- Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford and every other municipality in the region
Official definition
How the agency describes it: City of Victoria, with every Capital Region municipality in the Province’s Schedule 704.
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Published by
- Province of B.C., Local Government Statistics, Schedule 704: Taxes and Charges on a Representative House
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Yearly (Province of B.C., each summer); latest release Not stated by the agency
- Retrieved
- Nov 11, 2026, 8:35 PM B.C. time
Source: Province of B.C., Local Government Statistics, Schedule 704: Taxes and Charges on a Representative House. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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