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Where the 2026 tax money comes from, by ward

Each ward shaded by what kind of property pays the tax there. Dark navy means almost all the revenue comes from non-residential property — office towers, shops, industrial buildings. Bright yellow means almost all of it comes from homes. Ward 7 covers downtown — the navy patch there stands out against the residential ring around it. The chart below pairs with this map to show how much revenue each ward generates; this map shows who pays. Hover any ward for the breakdown.

Geometry is the City’s 14-ward map drawn for the October 2021 general election and still in force for the 2026 council.

Choropleth of Calgary’s 14 wards coloured by residential share of 2026 property-tax revenueA flat plan of Calgary divided into the 14 wards drawn for the October 2021 general election. Each ward is shaded by its residential share of 2026 estimated property-tax revenue using the cividis ramp: bright yellow for wards where almost all revenue comes from residential parcels, deep navy where almost all comes from non-residential property. Ward 7 covers downtown — its navy patch stands out against the residential ring around it. Ward numbers are labelled at each polygon’s centre. Hover any ward in the visual rendering for the residential and non-residential breakdown. A sorted bar chart of the same totals follows this figure.Ward 1 — $263M total Residential $174M · Non-residential $90M 39,951 parcelsWard 2 — $235M total Residential $176M · Non-residential $59M 41,940 parcelsWard 3 — $203M total Residential $147M · Non-residential $56M 39,666 parcelsWard 4 — $228M total Residential $150M · Non-residential $78M 34,882 parcelsWard 5 — $300M total Residential $146M · Non-residential $153M 43,734 parcelsWard 6 — $293M total Residential $226M · Non-residential $67M 45,023 parcelsWard 7 — $917M total Residential $192M · Non-residential $725M 46,081 parcelsWard 8 — $442M total Residential $246M · Non-residential $195M 58,733 parcelsWard 9 — $474M total Residential $121M · Non-residential $354M 39,933 parcelsWard 10 — $276M total Residential $97M · Non-residential $179M 29,840 parcelsWard 11 — $365M total Residential $195M · Non-residential $170M 42,282 parcelsWard 12 — $437M total Residential $203M · Non-residential $233M 55,251 parcelsWard 13 — $212M total Residential $172M · Non-residential $40M 46,378 parcelsWard 14 — $223M total Residential $169M · Non-residential $53M 40,583 parcels1234567891011121314
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Ward boundaries from the City’s open data. Shading is each ward’s residential share of 2026 tax revenue — light = mostly homes, dark = mostly commercial. Ward numbers are labelled at each polygon’s centre.
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2026 estimated tax revenue, ranked

The same totals, ranked. Ward 7 tops the list at $917M — about 4.5× the lowest ward (Ward 3, $203M) — mostly because of how much commercial and industrial property sits inside its boundary.

The unallocated bar covers about 202 parcels (0.03% of the city) the City’s ward table can’t place cleanly. Keeping them as a separate bar means the citywide total still adds up.

Each bar is the city + provincial property tax owed by every parcel in the ward, computed from the 2026 assessment roll multiplied by the published 2026 mill rates. Hover for the residential / non-residential breakdown.