Residential Benchmarking
Each year, the city of Edmonton gathers information from cities across Canada to compile a Residential Property Tax & Utility Charges Survey.
Summaries of three measures from this survey - Typical Home Taxes, Average Home Taxes and Median Home Taxes - are provided below.
Typical Home Taxes – compares taxes on similar 3-bedroom bungalows across Canada. The typical bungalow is described as “a 25-30 year-old detached 3-bedroom bungalow with a main floor area of 1,200 square feet, finished full basement and a double car garage, on a 6,000 square foot lot.”
Average Home Taxes – compares the average tax bill on all single-family homes. This is the easiest of the three residential benchmarks to calculate, but does not differentiate between cities with newer or larger homes and cities with smaller or older homes.
Median Home Taxes – compares the tax bill on the median single-family home in each city. The median home is in the “middle” of the group, i.e. half the homes in the city pay lower property taxes than the median home and half the homes pay higher taxes than the median home. This is good measure to inform people whether they are in the lower or upper half of their group. For property taxes, the median value is usually lower than the average value.
Residential
Property Tax Comparison
Property Tax for a Single-Family House in 2010
in Selected Canadian Cities (dollars) |
| |
| City |
Average Tax
on a Typical
1,200 sq.ft. home1 |
Average Tax
per home2 |
Median Tax
per home2 |
| Burnaby, BC |
2,868 |
N/A |
N/A |
| Surrey, BC |
1,682 |
2,040 |
N/A |
| Vancouver, BC |
2,721 |
2,721 |
N/A |
| Victoria, BC |
2,696 |
2,874 |
N/A |
| Calgary, AB |
2,114 |
2,467 |
2,197 |
| Edmonton, AB |
2,366 |
2,640 |
2,421 |
| Grande Prairie, AB |
2,783 |
3,044 |
2,967 |
| Lethbridge, AB |
2,226 |
2,376 |
2,226 |
| Medicine Hat, AB |
1,806 |
1,986 |
1,805 |
| Red Deer, AB |
2,063 |
2,578 |
2,390 |
| Regina, SK |
2,485 |
2,485 |
2,326 |
| Saskatoon, SK |
2,684 |
2,684 |
2,556 |
| Winnipeg, MB |
2,078 |
2,256 |
2,078 |
| Toronto, ON |
2,999 |
4281 |
4839 |
| Laval, QC |
3,161 |
2,503 |
N/A |
| Montreal, QC |
3,083 |
3,740 |
3,148 |
| Fredericton, NB |
2,790 |
2,774 |
2,540 |
| Saint John, NB |
2,701 |
2,619 |
2,403 |
| Halifax, NS |
2,332 |
2,318 |
2,061 |
| St. John's, NL |
1,422 |
1,838 |
1,838 |
| Average |
2,453 |
2,643 |
2,520 |
2010 Survey
Source: The City of Edmonton, Planning and Development Department, Planning and Policy Services Branch, November 2010.
Notes:
- The typical home is defined as a 25 to 30 year-old detached 3-bedroom bungalow with a main floor area of 1,200 square feet, finished full basement and a double car garage, on a 6,000 square foot lot;
- The average property tax is the average property tax levy for all single detached houses in the city. The median property tax is the median property tax levy for all single detached houses in the city.
Related Charts
Property Tax on a Typical Home – 2010
Graph in .pdf format
Property Tax on an Average Home - 2010
Graph in .pdf format
Property Tax on a Median Home - 2010
Graph in .pdf format
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