Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cost of taxes and utilities

Interesting numbers!

Combined cost of taxes and utilities for 16 major Canadian Cities.
Next week I will provide the information to see how the Pass compares.

Average property tax and utility charges for single detached house in 2009:

Surrey: $3,183
Winnipeg: $3,440
Victoria: $3,532
St. John's: $3,532
Medicine Hat: $3,553
Halifax: $3,862
Calgary: $4,111
Regina: $4,143
Vancouver: $4,155
Red Deer: $4,166
Montreal: $4,174
Lethbridge: $4,237
Saskatoon: $4,292
Edmonton: $4,455
London: $4,828
Grande Prairie: $5,139


Source: City Of Edmonton

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It will be interesting to see where we fit in.I doubt it will be a fair comparison as cities like Calgary do not have houses that are worth less than 200,000.They also have way more high end homes, paying huge taxes, which screws up the averages.Which utilities are included?

Anonymous said...

I agree with anon, you are trying to compare apples with oranages. We do not fit in with cities but rather with towns. What are local towns paying, would be a fairer and truer comparison. The electorate is not stupid, so please do not try to justify our high taxes by comparing us with cities that provide such things as transportation, in-door swimming pools... so much more return for their tax dollars than what we get here.