This consultation is complete. The City of Kitchener adopted its 2025 budget. The property tax rate increase of 3.9 per cent works out to $49 a year for the average Kitchener home, continuing Kitchener’s trend of delivering one of the lowest property tax rates among large Ontario cities. To read the full 2025 budget, visit kitchener.ca/budget.
In 2023 the City launched its 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. Unprecedented community consultation and collaboration led to the plan's development. The plan serves as the foundation for the city’s strategies, actions and initiatives. It also ensures the alignment of projects and work conducted across the corporation.
The strategic plan guides many of the investments that we will include in budgets from 2023 to 2026. We will make future investments under the five goal areas within the strategic plan:
- Building a Connected City Together
- Cultivating a Green City Together
- Creating an Economically-Thriving City Together
- Fostering a Caring City Together
- Stewarding a Better City Together
For example, the 2024 budget advanced key priorities from the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. To find out more about these and other investments, read the 2024 budget.
As we look forward to the 2025 budget, we’d like to take a moment for a quick pulse check. Tell us how we’re doing in advancing our shared community priorities. Your feedback will help us continue the dialogue that began with the development of the 2023-2026 strategic goals.
Read the budget
The budget documents are now available. To learn about our financial situation going into the new year and about service delivery in 2025, check out our 2025 budget summary
You can also read these related documents:
