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Efficient Government

Complete tax bill: fourth-lowest

At $6,085, Campbell River's representative-home bill ranked fourth-lowest in this 11-community comparison. The blue portion is municipal taxes and charges; the rest is collected for other public bodies.

2026 / Representative house / Before the Home Owner Grant ยท Total taxes and charges ($)

  • Municipal + charges
  • Regional + hospital
  • School + agencies
  1. Langford$5,295
  2. Vernon$5,774
  3. North Cowichan$5,783
  4. Campbell RiverOur community$6,085
    Municipal + charges
    $4,048
    Regional + hospital
    $931
    School + agencies
    $1,106
  5. Courtenay$6,115
  6. Penticton$6,190
  7. Mission$6,732
  8. City of Langley$7,240
  9. West Kelowna$7,356
  10. Port Moody$9,819
  11. West Vancouver$14,403

Bars start at zero. Exact values shown for every community.

Sources & methods

Each community's representative house has a different assessed value and service mix. This compares published bills, not identical homes or tax rates. This fixed 11-community group differs from the 12-community tax-increase ranking.

CommunityRepresentative homeMunicipal + chargesRegional + hospitalSchool + agenciesTotal
Campbell River$721,718$4,048$931$1,106$6,085
Courtenay$782,777$4,221$795$1,099$6,115
Langford$992,336$2,938$688$1,669$5,295
City of Langley$1,269,858$5,192$70$1,978$7,240
Mission$1,090,906$5,149$216$1,367$6,732
North Cowichan$766,779$3,469$1,226$1,088$5,783
Penticton$750,535$4,721$337$1,132$6,190
Port Moody$1,855,611$6,891$105$2,823$9,819
Vernon$810,878$3,937$618$1,219$5,774
West Kelowna$1,012,207$5,522$468$1,366$7,356
West Vancouver$3,514,285$9,603$515$4,285$14,403

Method notes

  • The City's formal comparator method includes every B.C. municipality with a 2021 Census population from 25,000 to 50,000.
  • The current Council was elected in October 2022. The marker provides political context; it does not assign every later change to Council.
  • Municipal + charges combines General Municipal, residential parcel taxes and residential user fees. Regional + hospital combines those two levies. School + agencies combines School with BCA, MFA and Other.
  • The light-blue stack uses each municipality's total property-tax requirement, not a claimed tax-rate increase for an individual existing property.
  • The illustrated 2030 total is calculated as: 2026 complete bill minus 2026 General Municipal tax, plus 2026 General Municipal tax multiplied by the municipality's 2030-to-2026 property-tax-requirement ratio.
  • The expandable table shows the official 2026 endpoint. Separate downloadable CSV files preserve all 77 historical records and all 11 plan-projection inputs.
  • West Vancouver's much higher representative assessment lifts the arithmetic average; the median is the more stable middle-of-group benchmark.

What should be measured next: Replace the illustration with each new Schedule 704 actual, and update adopted-plan values whenever a council amends its financial plan.