Comox Valley Regional District

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Comox Valley
Regional district
Comox Valley Regional District
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Location in British Columbia
CountryCanada
Province British Columbia
Administrative office location Courtenay
Government
[1]
 • TypeRegional district
 • BodyBoard of directors
 • ChairWill Cole-Hamilton
 • Vice chairJonathan Kerr
 • Electoral areas
  • A – Baynes Sound–Denman/Hornby Islands
  • B – Lazo North
  • C – Puntledge–Black Creek
Area
 • Land1,699.90 km2 (656.34 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [2]
 • Total
72,445
 • Density39.1/km2 (101/sq mi)
Website www.comoxvalleyrd.ca OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Comox Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. [3] It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the southeastern portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, and centred about the Comox Valley. The partition left the new Comox Valley Regional District with only 8.4 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but 57.9 percent of its population. The CVRD covers an area of 2,425 square kilometres, of which 1,725 square kilometres is land (the remainder is water), and serves a population of 72,445 according to the 2023 Census. [4] The district borders the Strathcona Regional District to the northwest, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District to the southwest, and the Regional District of Nanaimo to the southeast, as well as the qathet Regional District along the Strait of Georgia to the east.

Contents

Two Indian reserves, K'omoks Indian Reserve No. 1 and Puntledge Indian Reserve No. 2 lie within its territory but are outside its jurisdiction. The census divisions comprising the new Regional District are the city of Courtenay, the town of Comox, the village of Cumberland, the district of Black Creek, Electoral Areas A, B, and C, and the two stated Indian reserves.

The administrative offices are in Courtenay, British Columbia.

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Comox Valley Regional District had a population of 72,445 living in 31,939 of its 34,412 total private dwellings, a change of

Panethnic groups in the Comox Valley Regional District (2001−2021)
Panethnic
group		2021 [2] 2016 [6] 2011 [7]
Pop. %Pop.%Pop.%
European [a] 61,87558,64057,425
Indigenous 5,2103,8252,910
East Asian [b] 1,2301,180800
Southeast Asian [c] 1,050630610
South Asian 660400170
African 425320245
Latin American 265130150
Middle Eastern [d] 1206525
Other [e] 290170125
Total responses71,11565,35562,460
Total population72,44566,52763,538

Incorporated communities

Unincorporated communities

Comox Valley A

Known as the Baynes Sound-Denman/Hornby Islands electoral area, this electoral area includes the southern portion of the district, on the border with the Alberni-Clayoquot and Nanaimo Regional Districts.

According to the 2016 Canada Census: [8]

Communities

Comox Valley B

Known as the Lazo North electoral area, this electoral area surrounds the town of Comox. It has no administrative or governmental function and is used only to select rural representatives to the regional district board.

According to the 2016 Census:

Communities

Comox Valley C

Known as the Puntledge/Black Creek electoral area, it is located between Courtenay, Campbell River and Strathcona Provincial Park.

According to the 2016 Census:

Communities

Transit

Comox Valley Transit is the regional public transportation system, operated by Watson and Ash Transportation. Funding is provided under a partnership between the region and BC Transit, the provincial agency which plans and manages municipal transit systems.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
  2. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
  3. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
  4. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
  5. ↑ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.

References

  1. ↑ "Board Members & Structure". October 26, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  3. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Comox Valley Regional District
  4. ↑ "Census 2016: Census Divisions - BC Stats". Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census divisions". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  7. ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  8. ↑ "2016 Census Total Population Results - Census Subdivisions". Archived from the original on December 29, 2017.

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