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VancouverBudgetServices · 2021

Arts, culture and community services

In 2021, the City of Vancouver's spending on arts, culture and community services was $141M — 8.0% of its expenses, +14% on 2020.

Source: City of Vancouver, Statement of Financial Information 2025.

$141M
spent in 2021
8.0% of expenses · $204 per resident
+14% on 2020 · +37% since 2015
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About these figures

The five-year review prints each service as one total; what it pays for inside — wages, contracts, grants — is not read for this page.

Each year is read from the newest Statement of Financial Information that prints it; later reports restate earlier years.

Source: City of Vancouver, Statements of Financial Information, five-year statistical review (unaudited; Internet Archive copies): 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025

See also

The other services, 2021

Police protection21% of expenses$377MUtilities19% of expenses$336MEngineering12% of expenses$219MGeneral government12% of expenses$210MParks and recreation11% of expenses$196MFire protection8.8% of expenses$157MPlanning and development4.4% of expenses$78.9MLibrary3.3% of expenses$59.4M

Overview

The City’s budget, 2021All expenses, by service and by kind of cost$1.78B