Property Tax Guide for Canada

Kitchener

Ontario

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Kitchener is a lower-tier city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, and the largest of the region's three core cities. Its property tax bill combines the City of Kitchener portion with the Region of Waterloo and education portions; the City sets only its own portion through its annual budget, which it publishes with a plain-language summary of the city tax increase each year.

Source: City of Kitchener — City of Kitchener, Budget and financial reports — past budgets.

Combined chart

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

Bars: City of Kitchener tax rate 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.

Kitchener property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–20260%2%4%6%8%10%104106108110112114No data2015No data2016No data2017No data20182.25%20192.09%20200.95%20211.99%20224.8%20233.9%20243.9%20252.2%2026Increase (%)Canadian dollar Real CEER (1999=100)Year
  • Bars — Kitchener tax rate 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 Kitchener tax rate increaseCanada 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
20192.25%1.9%108.6
20202.09%0.7%108.0
YearCity of Kitchener tax rate increaseCanada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual averageCanadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
20210.95%3.4%113.0
20221.99%6.8%113.0
20234.8%3.9%108.4
20243.9%2.4%107.6
20253.9%2.1%104.9
20262.2%No dataNo data

Sources for this chart:

Housing property-tax historical trend

The trend uses one measure only: the City of Kitchener's own tax rate increase approved by Council. 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
20192.25%
20202.09%
YearFigure
20210.95%
20221.99%
20234.8%
20243.9%
20253.9%
20262.2%

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.

The City publishes a year-by-year breakdown of the residential tax bill (City / Region / education shares) on its Understanding your property taxes page, with separate tax-rate breakdown documents for 2021–2026. Those documents were identified, but no per-$1,000 series is stated here; none is reconstructed from third-party rate tables. Source page: City of Kitchener, Understanding your property taxes, https://www.kitchener.ca/taxes-utilities-and-finance/property-taxes/understanding-your-property-taxes/

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the City of Kitchener's own tax rate increase approved by Council.

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 Kitchener tax rate 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

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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 Kitchener source before relying on a figure.