The non-election record, drawn: who lives here, what gets built,
what the City collects and where it goes. Most charts are built from the same rows as
the page that holds their table; three (what the City owns, library membership,
unemployment) are transcribed onto this page directly. Each caption links the page
that holds the record.
Population
City of Barrie, thousands, census counts; change between censuses as
Statistics Canada states it. The 2011 bar draws the 2011 profile's own 135,711,
while the stated +3.9% to 2016 works from StatCan's later revision (136,063) —
the record page carries the note. The record, the metropolitan-area series, and the 2021
demographics are on population.
Housing
StartsCompletions
Dwelling units, Barrie CMA — a larger geography than the city, stated on
the record page. Annual sums of CMHC's monthly figures:
housing starts.
Where the property tax goes
City operationsPoliceCounty of SimcoeLibraryOther
Millions of dollars, rounded for the chart — the record, line by line with its notes, is on where your property taxes go. Other bundles the sub-1% lines: health unit, conservation authorities and physician recruitment, plus the airport (to 2023) and tourism (to 2019) grants. Each segment is the most settled figure published: for 2016 through 2023 the partner lines are the approved amounts (2019 County: the actual) and city-operations is each year's request net of the partner section; for 2024 the partner lines are the actuals from the 2026 book and for 2025 the police line is the actual from the service's annual report, city-operations and the remaining partner lines being requests. 2026 is drawn faded because no actual or approved split exists yet — every segment is a request.
Property tax increases
Stated as one figureInfrastructure componentOperations componentService-partner component
Per cent. Through 2016 and in 2021–2022 the City stated one figure, drawn whole; every segmented bar is a sum of stated components, derived. Segment meanings shift with the City's own wording: 2019's operations figure is "City services" alone, 2020's includes the service partners, 2023's infrastructure piece is the levy-funded half of a 2% rise, and the 2023–2026 partner components are requests the City never restated as approved (2024's release notes "several amendments"). No year is a gap: every year 2013–2026 has at least one stated component, so nothing here would honestly draw as zero. 2017 and 2018 draw split because in each of those years the City stated both a total and its City-services component, so the infrastructure remainder is its own arithmetic; infrastructure sits at the bottom of every stack so the eras compare like with like. The names above the bars are the mayor in office during each budget year, from the results archive, with the average of the charted yearly increases over that mayor's budgets — an average of partly derived figures, derived itself. The full record, each year in the City's own phrasing: property tax increases.
The police budget
Millions of dollars; every bar is a request, not necessarily what Council
approved. The exact record with per-year notes:
the police budget. The shaded bands mark who held the mayor's chair in the years shown — a marker of period, not a claim about cause.
Water and wastewater rates
Water, per m³Wastewater, per m³
Dollars per cubic metre, residential first consumption block, one scale
for both series. The visible flat step is real: Council froze the wastewater rate
in 2021. The shaded bands mark who held the mayor's chair in the years shown — a marker of period, not a claim about cause. The structural breaks that make some year-over-year comparisons unfair
are on water rates, which holds the record.
Record: the year-by-year rate table with its
structural-break notes is on water rates.
Billions of dollars at 2025 replacement value, from the Corporate Asset
Management Plan. The condition grades and the renewal gap that goes with them are
on the infrastructure gap.
Library membership
Active cardholders, the province's own library survey; 2024 is the
latest survey year published. The cleanest
usage measure across the pandemic, since its definition did not change. The rest
of the series, and the caveats that travel with it, are on
libraries.
Unemployment
Unemployment rate, Barrie CMA
Three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, Labour Force Survey;
drawn at January and July of each year, through July 2026. The full monthly series
and what it does and does
not say are on jobs.
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