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VancouverBudgetServices · 2025

Arts, culture and community services

In 2025, the City of Vancouver's spending on arts, culture and community services was $178M — 7.0% of its expenses, −7.7% on 2024.

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

$178M
spent in 2025
7.0% of expenses · $241 per resident
−7.7% on 2024 · +73% since 2015
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, 2025

Police protection20% of expenses$520MUtilities20% of expenses$518MGeneral government15% of expenses$391MParks and recreation12% of expenses$297MEngineering9.8% of expenses$250MFire protection8.8% of expenses$223MPlanning and development3.8% of expenses$96.7MLibrary2.8% of expenses$71.8M

Overview

The City’s budget, 2025All expenses, by service and by kind of cost$2.55B