City of North Vancouver
All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.
City introduction
The City of North Vancouver is a compact urban municipality on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, in Metro Vancouver. Incorporated in 1907, it grew up around the foot of Lonsdale Avenue as the North Shore's transportation and industrial hub, with ferry and streetcar links to Vancouver and a major shipbuilding industry at the waterfront. The District of North Vancouver surrounds the City on three sides.
Today the City is the denser, more urban of the two North Vancouver municipalities, centred on Lonsdale and the Lower Lonsdale waterfront. The former shipyard lands at The Shipyards have been redeveloped as a public waterfront destination, while port and industrial activity continues along the shore. The City describes its recent direction as urban renewal, cultural expansion and environmental innovation, alongside a working port economy.
Source: City of North Vancouver — City of North Vancouver, State of the City Address 2025 (Mayor Linda Buchanan).
Combined chart
City of North Vancouver property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–2026
Bars: City of North Vancouver municipal property tax annual increase.
Lines: Canada inflation (Canada CPI annual average, Statistics Canada) and Canadian dollar Real CEER (Bank of Canada). CEER is on the separate right axis and is not a percentage.
- Line — Canada inflation (Statistics Canada CPI annual average)
- Line — Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
Data behind the chart
The data table below carries one row per year, in year order, with the tax increase, the inflation value and the CEER value for that year, or “No data” where a series has no verified figure.
| Year | City of North Vancouver municipal property tax increase | Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual average | Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | No data | 1.1% | 110.0 |
| 2016 | No data | 1.4% | 108.4 |
| 2017 | No data | 1.6% | 110.0 |
| 2018 | No data | 2.3% | 109.3 |
| 2019 | 4.25% | 1.9% | 108.6 |
| 2020 | 2.00% | 0.7% | 108.0 |
| Year | City of North Vancouver municipal property tax increase | Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual average | Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3.98% | 3.4% | 113.0 |
| 2022 | 3.75% | 6.8% | 113.0 |
| 2023 | 5.24% | 3.9% | 108.4 |
| 2024 | 6.9% | 2.4% | 107.6 |
| 2025 | 5.95% | 2.1% | 104.9 |
| 2026 | 2.92% | No data | No data |
Sources for this chart:
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2019: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2020: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2021: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2022: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2023: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2024: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2025: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- City of North Vancouver property tax increase, 2026: City of North Vancouver — official publication
- Canada inflation, 2015–2025: Statistics Canada, Table 18-10-0005-01, CPI annual average. The 2026 annual average is not yet published.
- Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–2025: Bank of Canada, Valet series CEER_BROADM, total index (1999=100), source file; explainer, Canadian effective exchange rates. Each value is the annual average of the 12 monthly total Real CEER values (a computed annual average, not a figure the Bank publishes directly as an annual value). CEER for 2026 is No data because the year is incomplete.
Housing property-tax historical trend
The trend uses one measure only: the municipal property tax increase, in the City's own wording for each year. Each row is the figure for that year on that one measure. A year with no verified figure on that measure is shown as No data.
| Year | Figure |
|---|---|
| 2015 | No data |
| 2016 | No data |
| 2017 | No data |
| 2018 | No data |
| 2019 | 4.25% |
| 2020 | 2.00% |
| Year | Figure |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 3.98% |
| 2022 | 3.75% |
| 2023 | 5.24% |
| 2024 | 6.9% |
| 2025 | 5.95% |
| 2026 | 2.92% |
Separate note — tax rates, not the trend
This note is separate from the trend above and is not part of it. A residential tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value can move even when the levy increase is small, because the assessment base changes. Rate figures are therefore not used as the trend and are not mixed into the increase chart.
2026, Class 1 Residential, dollars of tax per $1,000 of taxable value (City of North Vancouver Tax Rates Bylaw 2026, No. 9150, adopted May 11, 2026, and the City's 2026 tax rate summary):
| Component | Rate per $1,000 |
|---|---|
| Municipal general | 1.89202 |
| Storm drainage levy (Bylaw 9150, Schedule B) | 0.10697 |
| Eco levy (Bylaw 9150, Schedule C) | 0.02965 |
| Total tax rate in the City's 2026 summary (municipal general plus school tax, TransLink, Metro Vancouver, BC Assessment and Municipal Finance Authority; storm and eco levies are levied under separate schedules) | 3.34028 |
Source:: https://www.cnv.org/-/media/City-of-North-Vancouver/Documents/Bylaws/Keep/9150.pdf
Method
This trend uses one metric only, every year: the municipal property tax increase, in the City's own wording for each year.
Where a city publishes an increase as components, the components are recorded in the scope notes; a total is used only where the city itself publishes it.
Canada inflation is Statistics Canada, Table 18-10-0005-01, CPI annual average. Canadian dollar Real CEER is Bank of Canada, Valet series CEER_BROADM, total index (1999=100); each value is the annual average of the 12 monthly total Real CEER values (a computed annual average, not a figure the Bank publishes directly as an annual value).
How to read this page
Bars are the City of North Vancouver municipal property tax increase. Lines are Canada inflation and Canadian dollar Real CEER.
The left axis is a percentage axis shared by the bars and the inflation line. The right axis is a separate index axis for Canadian dollar Real CEER only. CEER is an index and is not a percentage.
A year shown as “No data” has no bar for property tax and no line point for that series, and a missing year breaks a line.
Tax rates per $1,000 are separate from the trend and are not charted.
Sources
- City of North Vancouver introduction: City of North Vancouver, State of the City Address 2025 (Mayor Linda Buchanan)
- City of North Vancouver: City of North Vancouver, Community Profile brochure
- City of North Vancouver: official source
- City of North Vancouver: official source
- City of North Vancouver: official source
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- City of North Vancouver: official source
- Statistics Canada, Table 18-10-0005-01: CPI annual average
- Bank of Canada, Valet series CEER_BROADM: Real CEER source file
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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 City of North Vancouver source before relying on a figure.