The City’s investments
$346M in 2018 · $894M in 2026
Click a year to see its amount.
Hatched: 2026, the adopted budget.
Services and programs start with the 2021 budget.
Understand
Two measures: what was added, what was adopted
The number is the City’s capital additions: what it added to its buildings, infrastructure, land and equipment in a finished year, as printed in the five-year statistical review of its Statement of Financial Information (2018–2025), which the City marks unaudited.
The services and programs come from the capital budget: what Council adopts to spend on capital projects in a year, from the capital budget file the City publishes for each year (2021–2026). The two measures are not the same and are never added together.
The City’s review does not print capital additions for 2026 yet: for that year the number is the adopted budget, hatched on the rail.
The City’s portal has no capital budget file for 2019 (the first is 2021): this year shows the capital additions only.
1 of the City’s reports print this row shifted by one column for 2019; the figure here is read from the earlier report the City’s own text confirms. The misprinted reports: Statement of Financial Information 2023 ↗
Where is the money spent?
The capital budget files give each program a service, not an address. 16 of the 1,096 places on the Places page carry capital budget lines, where a program’s name cites the place. Places ›
Names that changed between budgets
The 2023-2026 Capital Plan renamed the services of the 2019-2022 plan, and some budget files spell a service their own way. This page shows each service under the name the 2023-2026 plan gives it, through a reviewed list with a reason for each name.
Programs are sometimes spelled differently from one budget file to the next (a typo, an abbreviation, a word added): 86 programs are followed across those spellings after review, and each year keeps the name it printed.
The Capital Plan
The 2023-2026 Capital Plan is the envelope the yearly capital budgets draw from. It started at $3.49B; as revised it stands at $3.96B, of which $706M is delivered in kind by developers. 2023-2026 Capital Plan and 2026 Capital Budget with proposed four-year Capital Plan allocations ↗
Where do these numbers come from?
Capital additions: the five-year statistical review of the City’s Statement of Financial Information, which the City marks unaudited. Capital budgets and the Capital Plan: the files the City publishes on its open-data portal, one per budget year.
Statement of Financial Information 2023 ↗ · investments.json ↗ · Sources and method →
Sources: City of Vancouver, Statement of Financial Information (five-year review, unaudited); capital budget files and Capital Plan.