Oakville

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Oakville is a town in the Regional Municipality of Halton. The Town delivers more than 60 programs and services; under the 2026 budget, of every property tax dollar collected in Oakville about 44 cents go to Town services, 38 cents to Halton Region and 18 cents to education. Council's stated budget direction is to keep the overall property tax increase in line with inflation, and the Town's adopted increases have been the lowest among its Halton neighbours in recent years.

Source: Town of Oakville — Town of Oakville, "Oakville Council approves 2026 budget with focus on resilience and sustainability".

Combined chart

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

Bars: Town of Oakville property tax annual increase (Town portion).

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 — Oakville property 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)

Scope notes

All figures are the municipal (lower-tier) portion only. The regional municipality's portion and the provincial education tax are set by those bodies, appear on the same bill, and are never part of this series or added to the municipal figure.

The whole-bill increases the Town also publishes (for example 4.17% overall for 2026, with the Town contributing about 0.47 points of it) combine the Town with Halton Region and education; they are recorded in this page's research notes and are never charted here. The Town also carried a 1% hospital levy in this period; it is headlined separately from the Town portion increase and is not added into it.

The Town's approved budget books for 2017–2020 do not state an adopted Town-portion figure in a form that could be verified here, so 2015–2020 are No data rather than figures taken from later summaries or third-party compilations.

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	Town of Oakville property tax increase (Town portion)	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	Town of Oakville property tax increase (Town portion)	Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual average	Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
2021	2.29%	3.4%	113.0
2022	1.67%	6.8%	113.0
2023	6.07%	3.9%	108.4
2024	5.86%	2.4%	107.6
2025	6.0%	2.1%	104.9
2026	0.47%	No data	No data

Sources for this chart:

Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2021: Town of Oakville — official publication
Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2022: Town of Oakville — official publication
Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2023: Town of Oakville — official publication
Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2024: Town of Oakville — official publication
Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2025: Town of Oakville — official publication
Town of Oakville property tax increase, 2026: Town of Oakville — 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 percentage increase to the Town of Oakville's portion of the property tax bill (the Town's tax levy), as adopted 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.

Year	Figure
2015	No data
2016	No data
2017	No data
2018	No data
2019	No data
2020	No data

Year	Figure
2021	2.29%
2022	1.67%
2023	6.07%
2024	5.86%
2025	6.0%
2026	0.47%

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 — no Town of Oakville official tax-rate schedule stating a residential tax rate is published, and no rate was taken from a third-party source.

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the percentage increase to the Town of Oakville's portion of the property tax bill (the Town's tax levy), as adopted 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 Oakville 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

Town of Oakville introduction: Town of Oakville, "Oakville Council approves 2026 budget with focus on resilience and sustainability"
Town of Oakville: official source
Town of Oakville: official source
Town of Oakville: official source
Town of Oakville: official source
Town of Oakville: official source
Town of Oakville: 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 Town of Oakville source before relying on a figure.