Property Tax Guide for Canada

Grande Prairie

Alberta

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, in the heart of the Peace Region. It is the largest city north of Edmonton and the largest city in Treaty 8 territory. The city received its charter in 1958 and is known as the "Home of the Trumpeter Swan." Its economy rests on four pillars: oil and gas, forestry, agriculture, and retail trade, and it serves as the regional service centre for the surrounding Peace Country — including the separate rural municipality, the County of Grande Prairie, which surrounds it.

Source: City of Grande Prairie — City of Grande Prairie, About Grande Prairie.

Combined chart

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

Bars: City of Grande Prairie total tax annual increase (municipal operations plus police tax; components in the scope notes).

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.

Grande Prairie property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–20260%2%4%6%8%10%104106108110112114No data2015No data2016No data2017No data2018No data20190% (verified)20200.15%20211.16%20221.71%20233.97%20242.28%20254.34%2026Increase (%)Canadian dollar Real CEER (1999=100)Year
  • Bars — Grande Prairie total tax increase
  • 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.

YearCity of Grande Prairie total tax increase (municipal operations + police tax)Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual averageCanadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
2015No data1.1%110.0
2016No data1.4%108.4
2017No data1.6%110.0
2018No data2.3%109.3
2019No data1.9%108.6
20200% (verified)0.7%108.0
YearCity of Grande Prairie total tax increase (municipal operations + police tax)Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual averageCanadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
20210.15%3.4%113.0
20221.16%6.8%113.0
20231.71%3.9%108.4
20243.97%2.4%107.6
20252.28%2.1%104.9
20264.34%No dataNo data

Sources for this chart:

Housing property-tax historical trend

The trend uses one measure only: the total tax increase approved by Council, with its municipal-operations and police-tax components always shown separately. 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.

YearFigure
2015No data
2016No data
2017No data
2018No data
2019No data
20200%
YearFigure
20210.15%
20221.16%
20231.71%
20243.97%
20252.28%
20264.34% total — municipal operations 2.42% plus GPPS police tax 1.92%

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.

No data — searched: City of Grande Prairie property tax and bylaw pages (cityofgp.com) publish no residential rate table. Alberta Municipal Affairs' tax rate bylaw archive lists a 2026 City of Grande Prairie tax rate bylaw file (2026_Bylaw_GRANDE_PRAIRIE_0132.pdf; archive search portal: http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/mc_financial_tax_bylaws?fuseaction=FinancialStatementsTaxRatesSearch), but the bylaw document itself could not be read, so no rate is shown. Third-party rate compilations are not used, and the County of Grande Prairie's bylaw rates must never be substituted for the City's.

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the total tax increase approved by Council, with its municipal-operations and police-tax components always shown separately.

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 Grande Prairie total 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. A verified 0% increase sits at the zero line and is marked “0% (verified)”.

Tax rates per $1,000 are separate from the trend and are not charted.

Sources

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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 Grande Prairie source before relying on a figure.