St. Albert

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

St. Albert sits on the Sturgeon River, northwest of Edmonton. Established in 1861, it is the oldest non-fortified community in Alberta, and it was incorporated as a village in 1899 and as a town in 1904 before becoming a city. The City describes itself as a community of choice with a picturesque landscape, and brands itself the Botanical Arts City, with a focus on professional, scientific and technical services and "green" industries.

Source: City of St. Albert — City of St. Albert, 2011 Annual Report (City Profile).

Combined chart

St. Albert property tax increase, Canada inflation, and Canadian dollar Real CEER, 2015–2026

Bars: City of St. Albert average property tax annual increase per $100,000 of assessment.

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 — St. Albert average property tax increase per $100,000 of assessment
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.

St. Albert's figure is an average increase per $100,000 of assessed value: for 2026, +3.9%, or +$29 per year per $100,000, with an average municipal tax of about $890 per $100,000 excluding the provincial education tax. The 2026 figure was verified in the full text of the City's Approved 2026 Budget Summary. Two sub-series are used, as the City publishes them: the 2015–2018 figures are the retrospective average residential municipal increases in a 2019 CAO presentation to Council, while from 2019 the figures are the approved budget headlines; for 2019 the retrospective table gives 0.9% while the approved budget headline is 0.4%, and the approved value is the one recorded. The 2016 figure is a decrease of 0.4% (shown as (0.4%) in the City's table); it is recorded in the trend table below and is not drawn as a bar, because the chart's bars run upward from the zero line. No official figure was located for 2021 (a 2.79% figure appears in another municipality's council agenda and is not used).

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 St. Albert average property tax increase (per $100,000 of assessment)	Canada inflation — Statistics Canada CPI annual average	Canadian dollar Real CEER — Bank of Canada, annual average of monthly values, total index (1999=100)
2015	2.8%	1.1%	110.0
2016	No data	1.4%	108.4
2017	1.5%	1.6%	110.0
2018	1.4%	2.3%	109.3
2019	0.4%	1.9%	108.6
2020	2.5%	0.7%	108.0

Year	City of St. Albert average property tax increase (per $100,000 of assessment)	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	2.8%	6.8%	113.0
2023	4.6%	3.9%	108.4
2024	5.5%	2.4%	107.6
2025	3.6%	2.1%	104.9
2026	3.9%	No data	No data

Sources for this chart:

City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2015, 2017–2018: City of St. Albert, CAO presentation to Council, October 28, 2019 (Historical Tax Increase History table; source noted in the document: Assessment Dept. / previous Tax Rate Bylaw presentations)
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2019: City of St. Albert, Approved 2019 Budget (gazette insert)
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2020: City of St. Albert, Approved 2020 Budget (gazette insert)
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2022: City of St. Albert, 2022 Budget
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2023: City of St. Albert, 2023 Budget
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2024: City of St. Albert, Approved 2024 Budget Summary
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2025: City of St. Albert, 2025 Budget
City of St. Albert property tax increase, 2026: City of St. Albert, Approved 2026 Budget Summary
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 average property tax increase per $100,000 of assessment 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.

Year	Figure
2015	2.8%
2016	−0.4% (a decrease, shown as (0.4%) in the City's retrospective table; recorded here, not charted)
2017	1.5%
2018	1.4%
2019	0.4%
2020	2.5%

Year	Figure
2021	No data
2022	2.8%
2023	4.6%
2024	5.5%
2025	3.6%
2026	3.9%

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 — searched: City of St. Albert, Current Tax Rates, https://stalbert.ca/home/assessment/rates/ (the page confirms the 2026 rates were approved by Council on May 5, 2026 under Bylaw 18/2026, but the rate tables did not render as text ) and City of St. Albert, Bylaw 18/2026 (2026 Property Tax Rate Bylaw, signed PDF), https://stalbert.ca/site/assets/files/1819/bylaw_18-2026_property_tax_rate_bylaw_signed.pdf (the bylaw's text confirms its rates are expressed in mills — dollars per $1,000 of assessed value — but the section 4 rate table itself is an image in the signed PDF, so the values are not machine-readable). Third-party rate tables were not used.

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the average property tax increase per $100,000 of assessment 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 St. Albert average property tax increase per $100,000 of assessment. 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 St. Albert introduction: City of St. Albert, 2011 Annual Report (City Profile)
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, CAO presentation to Council, October 28, 2019 (Historical Tax Increase History table; source noted in the document: Assessment Dept. / previous Tax Rate Bylaw presentations)
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, Approved 2019 Budget (gazette insert)
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, Approved 2020 Budget (gazette insert)
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, 2022 Budget
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, 2023 Budget
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, Approved 2024 Budget Summary
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, 2025 Budget
City of St. Albert: City of St. Albert, Approved 2026 Budget Summary
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 St. Albert source before relying on a figure.