About this site
What this site is for
Victoria Indicators shows in one place whether key measures for Victoria and B.C. are moving in the right direction. The numbers come from public bodies first, and every number links back to its source, so you can check it yourself. Where the numbers come from. The site takes no position on policy and supports no party or candidate. It’s for everyone, whatever their politics.
Who runs it
I’m Joachim Agou. I live in Victoria and I’m a professional engineer (P.Eng.), licensed in British Columbia and in Newfoundland and Labrador, with more than 15 years of experience in mechanical engineering across aerospace, defence and infrastructure projects. My work has taught me to rely on measured data, show my sources and correct mistakes in the open. I apply the same standard here. I built this site because residents deserve clear numbers they can check about how our city is doing.
Open to everyone
Anyone is welcome to use the data, share it, suggest a better source or point out a mistake, whatever their political background. I judge contributions only on whether the data is public, reliable and relevant.
Disclosure
In the interest of transparency: I’m active in conservative politics in Victoria. I ran in Victoria–Beacon Hill in the October 2026 provincial election, I wrote A City That Works, a policy platform for the 2026 municipal election, and I’m an officer of the federal Conservative riding association in Victoria. I keep that work separate from this site. I choose the topics, but the numbers come straight from their sources and I never adjust them. If I run for office again, this page will say so the day I announce.
Who pays
I pay for this site myself. It costs about $50 a year for the domain and hosting. Nobody else funds it and it carries no ads. If that changes, this page will say so first.
How it’s built
Every number is read by script from the agency’s own file. The headline numbers are checked again against the agency’s figure before each release. If I ever use a freedom of information response, I’ll publish the release itself and link it like any other source.
The site counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies. There are no ads, no sign-up and no other tracking.
Who has checked it
Nobody independent has reviewed this site yet. I’d like that to change. If you work with public data and you’re willing to check a few measures, write to me. With your permission, I’ll credit you here with the date and what you checked.
Until then, don’t take my word for it. Every number links to the agency that published it, and every correction is listed with its date.
Found a mistake?
Email [email protected]. I’ll reply within 5 days and log every fix on the corrections page.
Contributing
If you know of a public dataset I’m missing, a better source, or a mistake in how I read the data, please email [email protected]. I only publish figures I can trace to a public source, so tips help me find data but never replace it. I won’t name you or credit anything to you without your explicit permission. I decide what gets published here, based on reliability and relevance.
Shouldn’t the City of Victoria or the Province have a site like this?
Ideally, yes. Most of these numbers are already published, but they’re spread across dozens of agencies, formats and release dates, and few are shown against the targets governments set for themselves. This site puts them in one place, side by side with those targets. If an official site does this better one day, I’ll link to it.
Take the data
All 57 current measures (CSV): one row per measure with its value, period, direction label, area, source link, licence, update frequency and retrieval date. Each measure page also has its own CSV with the full series.
How to cite
Cite the agency that published the number first; this site only collects and explains it. For example:
CMHC, Rental Market Survey, Victoria CMA, October 2025, average two-bedroom rent ($2,120). Retrieved via Victoria Indicators, acitythatworks.ca/indicators/average-rent-2-bedroom, Nov 12, 2026.
Some figures are public but not under an open licence; each page says which, with the agency’s terms. About licences.