Chestermere

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Chestermere is a lakeside city in southern Alberta, a short drive east of Calgary — the City's community profile puts it about 20 minutes from Calgary's city centre and 15 minutes from Calgary International Airport, beside Chestermere Lake with views of the Rocky Mountains. The profile describes Chestermere as one of Alberta's fastest-growing cities, with a population of more than 20,000 expected to grow to 50,000 within 20 years, and notes that the City levies no business tax.

Source: City of Chestermere — City of Chestermere, Community Profile 2020.

Combined chart

Chestermere property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–2026

Bars: City of Chestermere municipal property tax annual increase. The City does not publish an approved increase percentage, so the tax series has no bars; the two national lines are shown on their own.

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.

Bars — none: the City of Chestermere publishes no property-tax percentage (see the scope notes)
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)

Scope notes

All figures are the municipal portion only. The provincial education tax, which the municipality collects for the Province of Alberta and which forms a large part of an Alberta tax bill, is a separate levy with its own changes; it is not part of this series and is never added to the municipal figure.

Chestermere publishes its approved residential tax rate, not an increase headline. For 2026 the residential rate rose from 3.248 to 3.573 per $1,000 of assessed value (see the separate note below). The change of about +10.0% sometimes quoted for 2026 is derived from those two rates; it is not an official City headline, so it appears in the data tables only and is never charted. For the average family home (assessed $700,000) the City gives about +$227 per year (about $19 per month).

A year shown as “No data” has no bar for property tax and no line point for that series. A missing year breaks a line: no line segment crosses a gap, and no value is interpolated. Inflation for 2026 is not yet published as an annual average. Each Canadian dollar Real CEER value is the annual average of the 12 monthly total Real CEER values from the Bank of Canada (a computed annual average, not a figure the Bank publishes directly as an annual value). CEER is an index on a separate right axis and is not a percentage. CEER for 2026 is No data because the year is incomplete.

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 Chestermere 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	No data	1.9%	108.6
2020	No data	0.7%	108.0

Year	City of Chestermere 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	No data	3.4%	113.0
2022	No data	6.8%	113.0
2023	No data	3.9%	108.4
2024	No data	2.4%	107.6
2025	No data	2.1%	104.9
2026	No data	No data	No data

Sources for this chart:

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 — which this City publishes as tax rates, not as an increase percentage. 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	No data
2020	No data

Year	Figure
2021	No data
2022	No data
2023	No data
2024	No data
2025	No data
2026	No percentage published — residential rate 3.248 to 3.573 per $1,000 (rate-derived change about +10.0%, table only, not charted)

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.

Municipal residential rate per $1,000 of assessed value, from the City's published rates and tax rate bylaws. Note: the 2026 rate change (3.248 → 3.573) works out to about +10.0% — that percentage is reverse-calculated from the rate （百分比为税率反算、只进表不入图）: it appears in this section only, is not an official headline increase, and must not be charted or entered in the main table.

Year	Rate per $1,000	Scope	Source
2023	3.60916	municipal residential rate under Tax Rate Bylaw #013-23	City of Chestermere, Tax Rate Bylaw #013-23 (Alberta Municipal Affairs tax rate bylaw archive), http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/FinancialTaxRateSearch/pdf/tr_bylaws/2023_Bylaw_Chestermere_0356.pdf
2024	3.248244	municipal residential rate; the total 2024 residential rate including the provincial education tax (2.132501) was 5.380745	City of Chestermere, 2024 Updated Budget & Tax Rate, https://thecityofchestermere.ca/2024-updated-budget-tax-rate/
2025	3.248	municipal residential rate, as quoted as the prior-year rate in the City's 2026 tax-rates article	City of Chestermere, 2026 Tax Rates, https://thecityofchestermere.ca/2026-tax-rates/
2026	3.573	municipal residential rate; the City states the average household (assessed at $700,000) pays about $227/year more (about $19/month)	City of Chestermere, 2026 Tax Rates, https://thecityofchestermere.ca/2026-tax-rates/

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the municipal property tax increase — which this City publishes as tax rates, not as an increase percentage.

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

There are no bars on this page: the City of Chestermere does not publish a property-tax percentage. The 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 Chestermere introduction: City of Chestermere, Community Profile 2020
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 Chestermere source before relying on a figure.