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City residential tax rate

Public, not open-licensedArea: City of Victoria Tax year 2026 · Where this covers

$3.7229 per $1,000 of assessed value

For context

General 2.1708, debt 0.1739, police 1.3782

Source: City of Victoria, Tax year 2026 · Full source

What it measures

The City’s residential property tax rate for the year: dollars of City tax for each $1,000 of a home’s assessed value, split into general, debt and police.

Why it matters

The rate times the assessed value gives the City part of a property tax bill. School and regional taxes on the same bill are set by other bodies.

Over time

Reading this page

Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label. The rate moves with assessments: when values rise, the rate can fall while bills rise. Schedule 1 of Tax Bylaw No. 26-030 sets the residential municipal rate at 3.7229 dollars per $1,000 of taxable value: general 2.1708, debt 0.1739 and police 1.3782. A home assessed at $1,000,000 pays $3,723 in City tax at this rate. The rules.

Source

Period
Tax year 2026
Licence
Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
Updated by agency
Annually (tax bylaw adopted each spring); latest release not stated
Retrieved
Nov 11, 2026, 1:19 AM B.C. time

Source: City of Victoria, Tax Bylaw No. 26-030, Schedule 1. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.

Text checked in the agency’s document

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  • Residential General 31,490,813,084 2.1708 0.1739 1.3782 3.7229
Show the numbers as a table
City residential tax rate, City of Victoria (newest first)
PeriodValue
2026$3.7229

Keep in mind

  • City (municipal) rate only. School, regional district, hospital and other rates on the same bill are set by other bodies.
  • Rates are not comparable across years without allowing for changes in assessed values.

Where this covers

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 (municipality).

Connected to: Municipal (tax bylaw). This is a label, not a judgement.

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