Prices vs a year ago

The 2% inflation-control target and its 1% to 3% range apply to Canada as a whole, so no target label is given to Victoria’s prices; the range is shown on the chart for reference. The change is 41.7% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.

Prices were 3.4% higher than a year earlier in September 2026, compared with 2.4% a year before that (September 2025). Index level 160.9. Same month: B.C. 3.0%, Canada 3.1%. The federal inflation-control target is 2%. Over five years the price level rose +19.8% (index 134.3 in September 2021 to 160.9 in September 2026).

Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.

Why it matters. When prices rise faster than pay, households can afford less. A smaller number means prices are rising more slowly; it does not mean prices are falling.

• The 12-month percentage is calculated here from Statistics Canada's published monthly index values (this month's index divided by the same month a year earlier).
• The five-year figure is the change in the price level itself: the index in September 2026 (160.9) divided by the index in September 2021 (134.3), not a change in the inflation rate. The index is 100 in 2002.
• It measures the average basket for a typical household. Your own costs, especially rent and food, may move differently; the index does not show what any one household pays.
• Prices rising more slowly does not mean prices are falling or that the level is back where it was.
• The index is for the Victoria urban area as defined by Statistics Canada, and monthly values are not seasonally adjusted.
• Longer views (10 years and more) show one figure a year: the change in the annual average index (Statistics Canada table 18-10-0005-01). They start in 1996 because Statistics Canada changed how city indexes are calculated in January 1995. The 5-year view shows each month.

Area: Victoria area (price index)

Statistics Canada’s consumer price index for Victoria: prices collected in the Victoria urban area, not the City alone.

Included

• Prices sampled from stores and services in the Victoria urban area, as chosen by Statistics Canada

Not included

• Statistics Canada does not publish a City-of-Victoria-only price index
• This site does not have an official list of the municipalities in the price sample

Official definition

• Statistics Canada: Consumer Price Index reference paper (how areas are sampled)

Shown for comparison

• Comparison area: All of B.C. The whole province of British Columbia.
• Comparison area: All of Canada Canada as a whole, shown only for comparison.

How the agency describes it: Victoria (Statistics Canada city index).

This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own file.

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Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index

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Updated by agency

Monthly; latest release Oct 19, 2026

Retrieved

Nov 11, 2026, 6:28 PM B.C. time

Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 18-10-0004-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.