Spruce Grove

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Spruce Grove is a vibrant, dynamic city located approximately 11 kilometres west of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It offers a mix of city conveniences — shops, restaurants, a range of housing options, schools, medical facilities and a diverse business community — side by side with recreation and leisure options, including more than 40 kilometres of all-weather trails connecting many of the city's neighbourhoods, playgrounds and parks. The City's most recent municipal census, completed in 2023, counted a population of 38,985.

Source: City of Spruce Grove — City of Spruce Grove, About Spruce Grove.

Combined chart

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

Bars: City of Spruce Grove 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.

Bars — Spruce Grove 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 portion only. The provincial education tax, which the municipality collects for the Province of Alberta and which forms a large part of an Alberta tax bill, is a separate levy with its own changes; it is not part of this series and is never added to the municipal figure.

Spruce Grove's published figure is a single tax increase in the City's budget material; the City does not split it into municipal and whole-bill parts, and it is recorded here in that same wording. For 2025 the City's approved 2025 Budget Highlights and the approved 2025–2027 Corporate Plan give a municipal tax increase of 3.9%, which is the figure recorded; a 3.66% figure circulated in third-party draft summaries is not used. The 2016–2020 figures are the approved values in the City's approved 2020–2022 Corporate Plan.

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	City of Spruce Grove tax increase	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	3.90%	1.4%	108.4
2017	2.90%	1.6%	110.0
2018	3.90%	2.3%	109.3
2019	3.50%	1.9%	108.6
2020	3.90%	0.7%	108.0

Year	City of Spruce Grove tax increase	Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual average	Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
2021	No data	3.4%	113.0
2022	No data	6.8%	113.0
2023	4.9%	3.9%	108.4
2024	5.12%	2.4%	107.6
2025	3.9%	2.1%	104.9
2026	4.68%	No data	No data

Sources for this chart:

City of Spruce Grove property tax increase, 2016–2020: City of Spruce Grove, 2020–2022 Approved Corporate Plan
City of Spruce Grove property tax increase, 2023: City of Spruce Grove, 2024–2026 Corporate Plan (Council meeting copy)
City of Spruce Grove property tax increase, 2024: City of Spruce Grove, 2024 Budget Highlights and 2024–2026 Corporate Plan
City of Spruce Grove property tax increase, 2025: City of Spruce Grove, 2025 Budget Highlights (2025–2027 Corporate Plan)
City of Spruce Grove property tax increase, 2026: City of Spruce Grove, City Council approves 2026-2028 Budget and Fiscal Plan
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 tax increase approved by Council, in the City's published wording. 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	3.90%
2017	2.90%
2018	3.90%
2019	3.50%
2020	3.90%

Year	Figure
2021	No data
2022	No data
2023	4.9%
2024	5.12%
2025	3.9%
2026	4.68%

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.

Residential/Farmland class, per $1,000 of assessed value (mills), from the City's 2026 property tax rate bylaw:

Year	Rate per $1,000	Scope	Source
2026	6.4198	general municipal rate only, Residential/Farmland	City of Spruce Grove, Bylaw C-1440-26 (2026 Property Tax and Supplementary Property Tax Rate Bylaw), https://www.sprucegrove.org/media/4514/2026-property-tax-and-supplementary-property-tax-rate-bylaw.pdf
2026	9.0202	total residential rate (general municipal 6.4198 + Alberta School Foundation Fund 2.5007 + Meridian Housing Foundation requisition 0.0997, as set in the same bylaw)	City of Spruce Grove, Bylaw C-1440-26, https://www.sprucegrove.org/media/4514/2026-property-tax-and-supplementary-property-tax-rate-bylaw.pdf

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the tax increase approved by Council, in the City's published wording.

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 Spruce Grove 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

City of Spruce Grove introduction: City of Spruce Grove, About Spruce Grove
City of Spruce Grove: City of Spruce Grove, 2020–2022 Approved Corporate Plan
City of Spruce Grove: City of Spruce Grove, 2024–2026 Corporate Plan (Council meeting copy)
City of Spruce Grove: City of Spruce Grove, 2024 Budget Highlights and 2024–2026 Corporate Plan
City of Spruce Grove: City of Spruce Grove, 2025 Budget Highlights (2025–2027 Corporate Plan)
City of Spruce Grove: City of Spruce Grove, City Council approves 2026-2028 Budget and Fiscal Plan
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 City of Spruce Grove source before relying on a figure.