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That is about $205 more each month than in 2018. The figures combine municipal property taxes and user fees before the homeowner grant. They use the Province's representative house, not one unchanged property.

Annual trend

Powell River is gold. Choose one Tyee-blue community for context. Annual provincial figures, before the homeowner grant.

Peer comparison

Powell River is almost level with Campbell River and Courtenay, below Parksville and Sechelt.

The full detachment recorded 6,331 calls in calendar 2025: 4,955 in the City and 1,376 outside it. That was below 2024’s 6,700 calls, but still 10.1% above 2018. On the clean fiscal-year comparison, City calls rose from 5,064 to 5,118 while outside-City calls fell from 1,512 to 1,357. Combined workload fell 1.5%. Within the City total, Mental Health Act files rose from 117 to 155. Calls for service include criminal reports, well-being checks and other non-criminal files, so this measures police workload, not crime alone.

Annual trend

Calendar years 2018 to 2023 use annual detachment totals and annual outside-City counts. The 2024 outside-City value is the sum of four published quarters; the City value is the remainder of the signed year-end total. The original outside-City Q2 2024 report repeats Q1’s 256 calls and reports 512 year to date. The following year’s official comparator reports 373 for April to June 2024, which reconciles to the published City and full-detachment quarter, so 373 is used. The 2025 point sums four City and outside-City quarterly reports. Blue is included within each total, not added to it. The reports use “Mental Health” through 2023 and “Mental Health Act” from 2024.

Adversarial checks

Final annual figures govern the fiscal comparison. The four 2025/26 City quarter reports sum to 5,122 calls and 156 Mental Health Act files, but the signed year-end report revises those figures to 5,118 and 155. The 2021 annual slide prints 5,188 municipal calls, which cannot reconcile to its 6,716 total and 1,598 outside-City count; the reconciled value is 5,118. For 2018, five consecutive reports show 5,750 total calls, while one later retrospective chart shows 5,752, so the repeated 5,750 figure is used. The 2023 mental-health count was revised from 295 to 294 in the following year’s report.

Green shows the reported monthly rent in the dollars of each year. Blue removes general B.C. inflation and uses 2015 dollars throughout. Both use the same fixed scale beginning at $0. These figures describe changes in the surveyed rental market, not a 70.6% increase for every tenant and not proof of what any one council caused.

Annual trend

October observations, 2015 to 2025, from CMHC Rental Market Survey table 2.1.11.2. Geography: Powell River census agglomeration, not a City-only count. Privately initiated rental apartments and row housing in structures with three or more rental units. Includes occupied and vacant units; excludes social housing and most individually rented houses and secondary suites. These are survey averages, not today's advertised asking rents. Reliability is excellent (a) in every year except 2021, which is very good (b). Changes in the mix of surveyed homes can affect the average. CMHC also changed the allocation of unknown bedroom counts in 2025. The smooth lines connect annual observations; they are not monthly measurements.

Inflation adjustment

The blue line expresses every rent in October 2015 dollars, using Statistics Canada's B.C. all-items Consumer Price Index, not seasonally adjusted (table 18-10-0004-01, vector v41692462). Calculation: reported rent × October 2015 CPI (120.6) ÷ that year's October CPI. October 2025 CPI is 159.4. The dollar and percentage changes compare each line's own 2015 and 2025 endpoints, before rounding. The blue result is a monthly increase in 2015 purchasing power. B.C. CPI is a provincial benchmark, not a Powell River-specific inflation estimate.

The former Class 4 and 5 contribution falls by $5.23 million. The same mill property now returns $1.56 million as Utility and $759,000 as Business/Other. Including $151,000 left in Class 5, the mill site contributes about $2.47 million. That leaves a $2.91 million net mill-site loss. New growth elsewhere reduces the City's overall tax-base loss to $2.44 million.

Annual trend

Class 4 and 5 through 2025. In 2026, the bar rebuilds as the reclassified mill property is counted where it moved.

Peer comparison

*Powell River combines Class 4 and 5 at 0.6%, plus 5.9% recovered as Utility and 2.9% recovered as Business/Other. Other communities show Class 4 and 5 only.