Truro

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Truro is situated centrally within Nova Scotia and the Maritime region of Canada, in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaw People. The Town's Community Plan describes how major rail and road networks developed with Truro as a key node, and how the town, central within the Municipality of Colchester, has become an urban core for shopping, business, health care, education, housing and recreation for the surrounding region. Its location along the Salmon River at the mouth of the Cobequid Basin adds to its natural attractiveness, though the same setting brings flood and storm-surge risk.

The Community Plan traces the town from a region long inhabited by Indigenous Peoples, through Acadian settlement and the arrival of British-loyal settlers, to its emergence by the mid-to-late 1800s as an important railway hub with a significant manufacturing sector. Truro was incorporated as a town in 1875, one of Nova Scotia's earliest incorporated towns, and became a regional education centre; today Victoria Park, a 3,000-acre natural woodland park in the heart of the community, is its best-known green space, and the town presents itself as keeping a small-town feel while offering a full range of amenities and services.

Source: Town of Truro — Town of Truro Community Plan, Part 2 — Our Community (Town of Truro).

Total residential tax rate chart

Truro total residential tax rate, 2019/20–2026/27

Bars: Truro total residential tax rate, by fiscal year, in dollars per $100 of assessment.

Bars only. No comparison lines are drawn: a tax rate is not a percentage change, so it cannot share the percent axis used on the other provinces' combined charts. The scope notes explain the calibre.

Bars — Truro total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)

Scope notes

All figures are the Town of Truro's total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre: dollars per $100 of assessment, combining the municipal general rate with the provincial mandatory and other items the provincial table rolls into the total.

For 2026/27 the Town's budget presentation states that residential and commercial rates are unchanged, but the specific 2026/27 rate number does not appear in the material extracted for this guide. The year is recorded as No data: the 2025/26 rate of 1.9025 is not repeated as a 2026/27 figure.

A tax rate is not a bill. The bill on a given property also moves with its assessed value, and Nova Scotia's Assessment Cap (CAP) limits the annual increase in the taxable assessment of eligible owner-occupied homes — so a flat rate does not mean a flat bill, and a higher rate does not raise every bill by the same amount. Nova Scotia's municipal fiscal year runs April 1 to March 31, which is why the years here are fiscal years. No comparison lines are drawn on this page's chart: inflation is a percentage change and an exchange-rate index is an index, while a tax rate is neither — putting a rate on a percent axis would present it as an increase %, which it is not.

Data behind the chart

The data table below carries one row per fiscal year, in order, with the total residential tax rate for that year, or “No data” where no rate was published.

Fiscal year	Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)
2019/20	1.850
2020/21	1.850
2021/22	1.9025
2022/23	1.9025

Fiscal year	Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)
2023/24	1.9025
2024/25	1.9025
2025/26	1.9025
2026/27	No data

Sources for this chart:

Total residential tax rate, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26: Government of Nova Scotia Open Data, Municipal Property Tax Rates, dataset ure8-3w7m

Total residential tax rate trend

The trend uses one measure only: the total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre. Each row is the rate for that fiscal year on that one measure. A year with no verified rate is shown as No data, and no earlier rate is ever repeated into a later year.

Fiscal year	Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)
2019/20	1.850
2020/21	1.850
2021/22	1.9025
2022/23	1.9025

Fiscal year	Total residential tax rate ($ per $100 of assessment)
2023/24	1.9025
2024/25	1.9025
2025/26	1.9025
2026/27	No data

Separate note — 2026/27 official points, not the rate series

This note is separate from the rate series above and is not part of it. It records official 2026/27 points that are stated on a different basis — general rates, average bill figures, or a class-wide budget wording — so they stay visible without being merged into the total residential rate series.

Residential and commercial tax rates unchanged for 2026/27: the Town's 2026-27 budget presentation states that the residential and commercial tax rates do not change. This is an official statement about the direction of the rates (unchanged), not a published rate figure: the presentation does not publish a specific 2026/27 total residential rate number, so this point stays out of the rate series and the series entry for 2026/27 remains No data. Source: Budget Presentation 2026-2027 (Town of Truro), https://Truro.ca/town-services/financial-statements-budget/budget-presentations/1971-budget-presentation-2026-2027/file.html

Method

This page uses one measure only, every year: the total residential tax rate in the provincial table's calibre (dollars per $100 of assessment).

The 2019/20–2025/26 values are the Government of Nova Scotia Open Data Municipal Property Tax Rates table, checked row by row for this municipality. The 2026/27 value, where one is shown, is from the municipality's own adopted budget or official tax-rate document for that year.

Nova Scotia's fiscal year runs April 1 to March 31. Eligible owner-occupied homes are under the provincial Assessment Cap (CAP), which limits the annual rise in taxable assessment; individual bills can therefore move differently from the rate.

How to read this page

Bars are the Truro total residential tax rate for each fiscal year. The axis is a rate axis, not a percentage axis.

A taller bar is a higher rate; it says nothing by itself about how any one household's bill changed, because bills also move with assessed values and the Assessment Cap.

A year shown as “No data” has no bar. No rate is carried forward from the year before, and no value is interpolated.

Official points stated on other bases (general rates, average bill figures) are kept in the separate note, never merged into the series.

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 Town of Truro source before relying on a figure.