Are you getting your money's worth?

Every dollar of Toronto's 2025 budget — where it goes, where it comes from, and how it's changed since 2023. Sourced, dated, and yours to weigh.

$18.1 billion

total 2025 spending

$19.3 billion

total 2025 revenue

$6,489

spent per resident in 2025

These two totals aren't directly comparable line-for-line — see methodology for why. Per-resident figure uses the 2021 Census population (2,794,356) — Toronto has grown since, so this modestly overstates today's true per-capita cost. Full breakdown on /budget.

Try: Police TTC Parks Bike lanes Shelters Child care

Where it goes, where it comes from

2025 spending by policy area, and 2025 revenue by source. Full detail, including "how it's spent" by category, on /budget.

Spending

Policing 8.2%

Public Transit 16.4%

Childcare and Family Support 9.2%

Housing and Homelessness Support 9.6%

Public Health 1.6%

Seniors and Long-Term Care 2.3%

Social Services and Employment 8.3%

Fire, Paramedic and Emergency Management 5.3%

Revenue

Property Tax 32.4%

Other Taxes 5.9%

Provincial Transfers 16.4%

Federal Transfers 7.9%

Water and Waste Fees 10.2%

Fines and Penalties 1.3%

User Fees, Licences and Permits 11.2%

Transfers From Reserves and Capital 8.8%

Investment and Rental Income 1.7%

Inter-Divisional Recoveries 1.2%

Other Revenue 2.9%

Has your tax bill gone up?

Property tax revenue, 2023 to 2025.

+17.4%

property tax revenue collected: $5,313,129,936 → $6,236,939,933

+17.1%

cumulative Council-approved residential rate increase, 2023–2025

The dollar total also reflects a growing tax base (new construction, rising assessments), not the rate alone — see /budget for that distinction spelled out. Rate figures below, by year:

2024

+9.5%

largest single-year increase in more than 25 years

source

2025

+6.9%

source

Mayor Chow was sworn in July 12, 2023, after the FY2023 budget had already been approved by Council under the outgoing mayor -- her first full budget cycle was FY2024. Every City budget is approved by Council as a whole, not by the mayor alone. Source.

What else costs more

Other revenue where the City sets the rate or fee itself, 2023 to 2025. Provincial/federal transfers, reserve drawdowns, and investment income are deliberately left out here — Toronto doesn't set those.

User Fees, Licences and Permits +18.3%

$1,829,922,566 → $2,164,331,867

Water and Waste Fees +7.8%

$1,831,650,189 → $1,974,667,018

Other Taxes +11.0%

$1,023,869,217 → $1,136,830,590

Fines and Penalties +52.2%

$162,807,297 → $247,752,393

Where did the new money go

Policy areas with the biggest dollar change in spending, 2023 to 2025, ranked by dollars not percent — a big swing on a small program isn't the same thing as a big swing on a billion-dollar one. Full program-level detail on /budget.

Biggest increases

Childcare and Family Support+$564.0 million
Public Transit+$467.6 million
Citywide and Corporate+$308.2 million
Social Services and Employment+$247.8 million
City Governance and Corporate Services+$223.6 million

Biggest decreases

Public Health−$80.4 million

So — are you getting your money's worth?

That's not a question this site answers for you. What it can do is show every dollar, sourced and dated, so you can weigh the tradeoffs yourself: the full budget breakdown, how these figures are built, or search for anything specific.

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