Strathcona County

All dollar amounts on this page are in Canadian dollars.

City introduction

Strathcona County is a specialized municipality in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, a status it has held since January 1, 1996: it is governed as a single municipality that is both urban and rural. Sherwood Park is its urban service area — technically a hamlet, but treated as the equivalent of a city for provincial programs and funding, and home to over 75,000 residents. The surrounding rural area contains eight more hamlets (Antler Lake, Ardrossan, Collingwood Cove, Half Moon Lake, Hastings Lake, Josephburg, North Cooking Lake and South Cooking Lake) along with farms and country residential subdivisions. Sherwood Park is part of Strathcona County, not a separate municipality.

Source: Strathcona County — Strathcona County, Communities.

Combined chart

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

Bars: Strathcona County municipal tax revenue 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 — Strathcona County municipal tax revenue 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.

Sherwood Park is a community inside Strathcona County, not a separate municipality; its figures are part of the County's and are not listed separately. For 2026 the County's municipal revenue increase is 4.88%, which includes the third year of the recreation infrastructure tax; a sample home assessed at $513,000 pays about $2,349 in municipal tax. A proposed 5.18% figure was superseded by the final value and is not used.

The 2018 figure is a decrease, not an increase: the County's 2018 annual report records that it delivered a 2.18% decrease. It is recorded in the trend table below; it is not drawn as a bar, because the chart's bars run upward from the zero line. Combined-scope figures the County also publishes (for example 2.9% for 2023 and 2.28% for 2022 on a combined basis) are a different scope and are 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	Strathcona County municipal tax revenue 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	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	0% (verified)	0.7%	108.0

Year	Strathcona County municipal tax revenue 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	3.11%	6.8%	113.0
2023	4.6%	3.9%	108.4
2024	5.87%	2.4%	107.6
2025	3.90%	2.1%	104.9
2026	4.88%	No data	No data

Sources for this chart:

Strathcona County property tax increase, 2020: Strathcona County, Financial Highlights for 2020
Strathcona County property tax increase, 2022: Strathcona County, 2022 Budget addresses staffing and inflationary pressures
Strathcona County property tax increase, 2023: Strathcona County, Council digs deep to reduce tax burden for residents and businesses
Strathcona County property tax increase, 2024: Strathcona County, Budget 2024 approved
Strathcona County property tax increase, 2025: Strathcona County, Budget 2025
Strathcona County property tax increase, 2026: Strathcona County, Budget 2026 news release
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 municipal tax revenue 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.

Year	Figure
2015	No data
2016	No data
2017	No data
2018	−2.18% (a decrease, per the County's 2018 annual report; recorded here, not charted)
2019	No data
2020	0%

Year	Figure
2021	No data
2022	3.11%
2023	4.6%
2024	5.87%
2025	3.90%
2026	4.88%

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 class, per $1,000 of assessed value, from the County's published tax rates page (rates as approved in each year's tax rate bylaw):

Year	Rate per $1,000	Scope	Source
2019	4.2267	municipal operating rate only (Bylaw 11-2019)	Strathcona County, Tax rates, https://www.strathcona.ca/your-property-utilities/property-taxes/tax-payment/tax-rates/
2020	4.3644	municipal operating rate only (Bylaw 18-2020)	Strathcona County, Tax rates, https://www.strathcona.ca/your-property-utilities/property-taxes/tax-payment/tax-rates/
2021	4.4810	municipal operating rate only (Bylaw 17-2021)	Strathcona County, Tax rates, https://www.strathcona.ca/your-property-utilities/property-taxes/tax-payment/tax-rates/
2026	4.5822	total municipal rate (Municipal Operations 4.5098 + Recreation Infrastructure 0.0724), Bylaw 4-2026, approved April 28, 2026	Strathcona County, Tax rates, https://www.strathcona.ca/your-property-utilities/property-taxes/tax-payment/tax-rates/
2026	7.2770	total for current year, residential (all authorities)	Strathcona County, Tax rates, https://www.strathcona.ca/your-property-utilities/property-taxes/tax-payment/tax-rates/

Method

This trend uses one metric only, every year: the municipal tax revenue 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 Strathcona County municipal tax revenue 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. A verified 0% increase sits at the zero line and is marked “0% (verified)”.

Tax rates per $1,000 are separate from the trend and are not charted.

Sources

Strathcona County introduction: Strathcona County, Communities
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, 2018 Annual Report
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, Financial Highlights for 2020
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, 2022 Budget addresses staffing and inflationary pressures
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, Council digs deep to reduce tax burden for residents and businesses
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, Budget 2024 approved
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, Budget 2025
Strathcona County: Strathcona County, Budget 2026 news release
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 Strathcona County source before relying on a figure.