Property Tax Guide for Canada

Gatineau

Quebec

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Gatineau is the urban hub of the Outaouais region in western Quebec and the immediate neighbour of Canada's federal capital, lying directly across the Ottawa River from Ottawa. It is Quebec's fourth most populous municipality, and it forms the Quebec side of the Ottawa–Gatineau metropolitan region.

The present city is a « ville-MRC » created by the 2002 amalgamation of five former cities — Aylmer, Buckingham, Gatineau, Hull and Masson-Angers — which survive today as its five sectors. It stretches more than 55 km along the north shore of the Ottawa River, and although its territory of 341.84 km² is barely 1% of the Outaouais region, it is home to more than seven in ten of the region's residents.

Gatineau has a distinctive bilingual character for Quebec, with a bilingualism rate of about 65% alongside a francophone majority, and it is the province's second-largest immigration hub after the Montréal agglomeration. Its economy benefits from its strategic position next to the federal capital, notably the jobs offered by the federal public service.

Source: Ville de Gatineau — Portrait culturel de la Ville de Gatineau (Ville de Gatineau, février 2023).

Combined chart

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

Bars: City of Gatineau published residential tax 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.

Gatineau property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–20260%2%4%6%8%10%1041061081101121142.9%20152.9%20162.9%20172.9%20182.1%20192.1%20202.1%20211.9%20222.9%20232.9%20243.18%20253%2026Increase (%)Canadian dollar Real CEER (1999=100)Year
  • Bars — Gatineau residential 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)

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.

YearGatineau residential property tax increaseCanada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual averageCanadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
20152.9%1.1%110.0
20162.9%1.4%108.4
20172.9%1.6%110.0
20182.9%2.3%109.3
20192.1%1.9%108.6
20202.1%0.7%108.0
YearGatineau residential property tax increaseCanada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual averageCanadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
20212.1%3.4%113.0
20221.9%6.8%113.0
20232.9%3.9%108.4
20242.9%2.4%107.6
20253.18%2.1%104.9
20263.0%No dataNo data

Sources for this chart:

Housing property-tax historical trend

The trend uses one measure only: the tax increase the City of Gatineau itself publishes for the residential side of the tax bill in its adopted budget documents. 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
20152.9%
20162.9%
20172.9%
20182.9%
20192.1%
20202.1%
YearFigure
20212.1%
20221.9%
20232.9%
20242.9%
20253.18%
20263.0%

Separate note — tax rates, not the trend

This note is separate from the trend above and is not part of it. Quebec tax rates are set per $100 of assessed value, and a rate can move even when the bill increase is small, because the assessment base changes — Quebec reassesses on three-year rolls, so rates and bills routinely move in opposite directions. Rate figures are therefore not used as the trend, are not mixed into the increase chart, and are never converted into bill increases.

Gatineau publishes its tax rates per $1,000 of assessment in its adopted budget documents. The rates below are given per $100 of assessment with the published per-$1,000 figure in parentheses; the only change made is that unit restatement. Since 2024 the City taxes the residential category by neighbourhood unit (unité de voisinage), so no single city-wide residential rate exists for the most recent years.

2017 — Residential category: $0.8149 per $100 of assessment (published as $8.149 per $1,000)

Source: Budget 2017 (adopté le 6 décembre 2016), Taux de taxes 2017: https://www.gatineau.ca/docs/guichet_municipal/administration_municipale/budget/budget_2017/budget.fr-CA.pdf

2019 — Residential category: $0.8512 per $100 of assessment (published as $8.512 per $1,000)

Source: Budget 2019 (adopté le 11 décembre 2018), Taux de taxes 2019: https://www.gatineau.ca/docs/guichet_municipal/administration_municipale/budget/budget_2019/budget.fr-CA.pdf

2025 — No single residential rate: the adopted Budget 2025 sets the residential category rate « par unité de voisinage » (by neighbourhood unit); the six-or-more-dwellings category remains a single rate of $7.644 per $1,000 of assessment

Source: Budget 2025, Taux de taxes 2025: https://www.gatineau.ca/docs/guichet_municipal/administration_municipale/budget/budget_2025/budget.fr-CA.pdf

Residential rates for the other years are not individually recorded here. For 2026, the City's tax bylaw (Règlement 994-2025) likewise sets the residential (catégorie résiduelle) rates in its Annexe I by neighbourhood unit, so no single 2026 residential rate is recorded either.

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the tax increase the City of Gatineau itself publishes for the residential side of the tax bill in its adopted budget documents.

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 Gatineau residential 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 $100 of assessment 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 Ville de Gatineau source before relying on a figure.