Corrections log

When a figure, label or explanation on this site was wrong, or was replaced with a better source, it is listed here with the month it changed. Newest first.

• Nov 2026. One-night (point-in-time) count: the area was labelled Capital Region, which this site defines as the whole CRD, including Salt Spring Island, the Southern Gulf Islands and First Nations reserve lands. The count’s Technical Appendix (page 7) says the count covers the Victoria census metropolitan area, which excludes the Gulf Islands, and does not include the Indigenous reserve lands within Greater Victoria. The area now reads “Greater Victoria (CMA), without reserve lands”. The count (1,749) is unchanged.
• Nov 2026. Family income: the five-year change was +24.0%, worked out in dollars of each year, on a measure read after inflation. It is now worked out after inflation: +5.4% since 2018. The label now reads “About the same this year. Better over 5 years.”.
• Nov 2026. Two labels where the long reading moved 5% or more but the one-year change did not. Each read only its one-year label before: Asking rent for a 2-bedroom, now “About the same this year. Worse over 5 years”; Business to home tax rate, now “Steady this year. Rising over 4 years”; Emergency wait to see a doctor, now “About the same this year. Worse over 4 years”; Family income after inflation, now “About the same this year. Better over 5 years”; Finishing high school, now “About the same this year. Better over 5 years”; Households on income assistance, now “Steady this year. Rising over 5 years”; People living in Greater Victoria, now “Steady this year. Rising over 6 years”; People looking for work who can't find it, now “About the same this year. Worse over 5 years”; Police officers vs authorized strength, now “Steady this year. Rising over 4 years”; Satisfaction with the police, now “About the same this year. Worse over 4 years”; Toxic drug deaths, last 12 months, now “About the same this year. Better over 5 years”.
• Nov 2026. Arrows inside the 5% threshold: an About the same, Steady or On target label showed an up or down arrow (for example ▲ 4.8% About the same for police-reported crime, next to ▲ 5.1% Worse for rent). These labels now show no arrow; they print the change and “within ±5%” (or “within the margin of error”). Changes of 5% or more keep their arrow.
• Nov 2026. Long readings added from the same agency file, against the same 12 months five years earlier: Households on income assistance +25.4% since the 12 months to July 2021; Price of regular gasoline +28.2% since the 12 months to September 2021; Homes under construction +79.5% since the 12 months to September 2021; Police calls for service +6.1% since the 12 months to September 2021; Businesses operating in Greater Victoria +3.9% since July 2021.
• Nov 2026. Emergency wait: the CIHI series for this hospital starts in 2021/22, so the long reading is the longest available, 4 years (+109%). It now reads “About the same this year. Worse over 4 years”.
• Nov 2026. Grade 7 numeracy: results are now Not comparable when the share of students who wrote changed by 5 percentage points or more (it was 10). Participation: 69% wrote, down from 77%. The long reading is Not comparable.
• Nov 2026. New homes started in the City: the headline was one year (1,473 in 2025, +235.5% on 439), which one large building can swing. It is now the five-year total, 5,807 in 2021 to 2025, against 3,632 in 2016 to 2020 (+59.9%). The single year is shown as a line.
• Nov 2026. Long readings that started in 2020 or 2020/21, a pandemic year, now start in 2019 or 2019/20 from the same agency file (6 years): Crimes by type −10.3% since 2020, now −14.6% since 2019; Days to issue a permit for larger buildings +81.8% since 2020, now +68.4% since 2019; Homes completed per 100 residents added +31.0% since 2020, now +48.6% since 2019; People living in Greater Victoria +8.6% since 2020, now +10.2% since 2019; People waiting for surgery +19.9% since 2020/21, now −1.0% since 2019/20; Police-reported crime −1.7% since 2020, now +1.2% since 2019; Rent after inflation +18.0% since 2020, now +21.6% since 2019; Rent for a 2-bedroom +40.7% since 2020, now +46.4% since 2019; Rental apartments available +1.1 pt since 2020, now +2.3 pt since 2019; Share of crimes solved +6.5% since 2020, now +2.6% since 2019; Weeks waiting for surgery −20.3% since 2020/21, now −16.9% since 2019/20. Where 2019 cannot be used, the 2020 base is kept, marked with * and the reason.
• Nov 2026. Long readings showed “5 yrs” for a reading from 2020 to 2026, which is 6 years. The real number of years is now printed (property tax: 6 years).
• Nov 2026. Units on the key list: Homes completed said “homes”; it is homes per 100 residents added. New homes vs target now says net new homes; Family income said “median, real” and now says “median, 2023” (the figure is in 2023 dollars). The business to home tax rate now says “times the home rate”. The emergency wait and the Crime Severity Index now have a plain-words line (CIHI’s 90th percentile; Statistics Canada’s index, set to 100 in 2006).
• Nov 2026. Who decides what: last and next decision fields that printed a placeholder when no date had been read are now left out. Where a date was read from the law or a published page, it is shown: the City’s financial plan bylaw (26-040) and 2026 tax rates, adopted May 7, 2026; the Province’s 2027 rent increase limit, announced August 27, 2026; the Bank of Canada’s October 28, 2026 rate and December 9, 2026 announcement; the police board’s November 30 budget deadline; the housing target report due November 14, 2026; and the last and next general elections.
• Nov 2026. Charts now mark the October 17, 2026 general local election where the chart ends in 2026. It was left off because it fell after the last point drawn.
• Nov 2026. New measure: passenger trips on Victoria regional transit, 25.6 million in the 12 months to August 2026 (Statistics Canada table 23-10-0307-01). It was listed as not measured yet.
• Nov 2026. Police response times are listed as not measured yet: public, not yet added: unit to be confirmed with the department.
• Nov 2026. Charts redrawn. Election days were full-height dark lines; they are now short light ticks on the top edge marked M (municipal), P (provincial) or F (federal), showing the main decision-maker’s elections first, with a Show elections button for the rest. Shape markers and dashed lines for each series are gone: lines are told apart by colour and name, with Victoria-area lines drawn thicker than the B.C., Canada and Island Health comparisons. A tapped or hovered point no longer opens a dark box over the lines; a thin guide marks it and the values above the chart change in place. Axis labels drop “.0” and carry the unit on the top label. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Long monthly charts (prices, gasoline, homes under construction, income assistance, active businesses, housing starts, unemployment and transit trips) now draw each month as a faint line under a bold 12-month average, the mean of that month and the 11 before it, worked out from the agency’s own monthly figures. The average is new on these charts; the headline figures did not change.
• Nov 2026. Police calls, City of Victoria view: the five-year reading stored in this measure’s data file was worked out against the wrong earlier figure (it read −23.8%). It is now +14.0% against the 12 months to September 2021 (34,615 calls), and the City view now prints it. The City view also now changes the area label to City of Victoria and keeps the Share button.
• Nov 2026. Key measures: there were 9; there are now 12. Added: Emergency wait to see a doctor; Days to issue a permit for larger buildings; Police-reported crime; Employment rate; Finishing high school. No longer key measures, still on the site: Police-reported crime in the City of Victoria; Business building permits downtown. The home page now gives one count line of the key measures’ labels, generated from the data.
• Nov 2026. Surgery waits: the headline was the median wait across all Island Health hospitals (7.1 weeks). It is now Royal Jubilee Hospital (5.9, Fiscal year 2025/26), with Victoria General, Island Health and B.C. shown beside it. The figures are unchanged; only the headline row changed.
• Nov 2026. Surgery waiting list: the headline was the list measured in weeks of surgeries (17.3 weeks). It is now the number of people waiting (19,457 on March 31, 2026), with 58,424 surgeries done in 2025/26; the weeks are still shown as a line.
• Nov 2026. City spending per resident: the headline was the amount ($3,208 in 2025) with a Rising label. It is now the change after inflation since 2021 (+22.5%), so a change in prices is not read as a change in spending.
• Nov 2026. Population: the headline was the City of Victoria (103,888 in 2025, BC Stats). It is now Greater Victoria (445,090, July 1, 2025, Statistics Canada), the area most other key measures cover. The City is shown as a line, with BC Stats’ projection dashed and marked “Projection, not data”.
• Nov 2026. Garbage per person: it read About the same, a change from the year before. The CRD has an adopted target, so it now reads against the target: 330, Behind target.
• Nov 2026. Regular health care provider: the name “Adults with a regular health care provider” did not say the figure is for all of B.C. It is now “Adults in B.C. with a regular health care provider”. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Shelter and supportive housing share: only one edition was shown, with a grey “No earlier figure” label. The previous edition of the same provincial file is now read too (86.3% on March 31, 2024), so the page shows a change in percentage points and reads Steady, a context label with no judgement.
• Nov 2026. Point-in-time count: earlier counts (1,523 in 2020, 1,665 in 2023) are now shown on the chart with method breaks, with the CRD’s caution that they should not be used to suggest trends. The label stays Not comparable.
• Nov 2026. Active businesses: openings and closings over the 12 months to July 2026 are now shown (5,821 and 5,762), from the same table. The headline is unchanged.
• Nov 2026. Property tax and inflation: the page compared only the City’s general tax. It now also shows the whole bill and who sets each part, from the same provincial schedule. The headline is unchanged.
• Nov 2026. Merged pages: crime compared with B.C. and Canada is now part of the crime severity index page; homelessness per 1,000 residents is part of people experiencing homelessness; homes approved per 1,000 residents is part of new homes approved; the two drug death comparison pages are part of toxic drug deaths. Construction value is removed, and the City’s tax rate is shown as a chart on the business tax ratio page. Old links lead to the new pages. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Change labels: where a measure is compared with a year more than one year back (such as the last election), the label now says which year, for example “vs 2022”.
• Nov 2026. Safety key measure: the key row for Safety was the crime severity index for the Victoria and Esquimalt police area (161.2, Calendar year 2025). It is now the index for Greater Victoria (74.6, Calendar year 2025), which covers the same area as most other key measures; its chart now also shows the City of Victoria police service line. The police-area page is unchanged and still listed under Safety.
• Nov 2026. New measures: Emergency wait to see a doctor; Police calls for service; Satisfaction with the police; Share of crimes solved; Crimes by type; Employment rate; Family income after inflation; Households on income assistance; Price of regular gasoline; New homes started in the City; Homes under construction; House tax by municipality; Business to home tax rate; Capital work done vs plan; Finishing high school; Grade 7 numeracy on track. Schools is a new theme. Added to existing pages: spending per resident by service (City spending per resident), mortgage share by home type (mortgage page), scheduled service, hours and customer service reports (transit), homes approved by municipality (new homes approved), and a short hourly log of Island Health’s posted emergency waits (emergency wait page, supporting only). No existing figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Homes completed and population growth: the headline was the homes completed in 2025 (3,952), with a Falling label in a neutral colour, while new homes started, from the same CMHC survey, read as an outcome. The headline is now homes completed for every 100 residents added over five years: 55 (19,246 homes and +35,192 residents, 2021 to 2025), labelled under the same rule as new homes started (Better). The latest year alone is shown as a line.
• Nov 2026. Police department measures: the area label read “Victoria + Esquimalt (police area)”. It now reads “Victoria and Esquimalt police area”.
• Nov 2026. Sources: the site said every number comes “only from public agencies”. It now lists the kinds of source it uses, public bodies first, and each measure page names its kind of source. Every measure today is read from a public body; the downtown pedestrian counts are credited by the City to the Downtown Victoria Business Association, as the page says. The home page now says the area is Greater Victoria unless a row names another area.
• Nov 2026. Who decides what: each measure page had a “Who has a role” list and a “Connected to” line, which mixed governments with markets, households and builders and gave no source for any role. Each page now has an open “Who decides what” table: the body, what it decides, a link to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role, and its last and next decision where these are set out in law or in a published report. A body is listed only where that link has been opened and checked. The same tables are gathered on a new page, Who decides. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Home page filter: it was called “Level of government”, and a measure appeared under every level in its tags, so most measures appeared under several. It is now called “Who decides” (All, City of Victoria, Region, School district, Province, Federal) and shows each measure under its main decision-maker only: the first body in its “Who decides what” table. Measures that no government decides directly appear under All. No measure on the site is mainly decided by a school district yet, and the filter says so.
• Nov 2026. Government tags: a level is now tagged only where the table links the law that gives it a role in that measure, and a level is removed where no such law could be linked yet. Changed: Net new homes vs the provincial target: Province · City · Federal → Province · City; Below-market and family-size homes: Province · City · Federal → Province · City; Victoria’s share of the region’s shelter and homeless housing: Province · Federal · City · Region → Province · Federal · Region; Mortgage payment, share of income: Federal · Region · Province → Federal · Region; People looking for work who can't find it: Federal · Province → Federal; Businesses operating in Greater Victoria: City · Province · Federal → City; People walking past downtown counters: City · Province · Federal → City. The CSV files now have main_decision_maker and decided_by columns in place of level_of_government. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. How we check numbers: the rule “No blame. ‘Better’ or ‘Worse’ describes the number, not why it moved or who is responsible.” and the “Level of government” section are replaced by: “We show who decides. Each measure lists the body that sets the budget, passes the bylaw or runs the service, with a link to the law. We do not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers.” Charts now also mark general election days for the governments listed for that measure, by date and level only.
• Nov 2026. Community greenhouse gas emissions: the page showed a “Better” label with a 31% fall, the City’s own comparison of its 2023 inventory with its 2007 baseline, in the place where other rows show a change from an earlier period. Only one inventory year is read here, so there is nothing earlier in the same series to compare with. The label is removed until a second inventory year can be compared. The figure itself is unchanged.
• Nov 2026. Not measured yet: four topics were listed as not published as data, or as not checkable: emergency department waits by hospital, police response times, police calls for service, and housing starts in the City alone. Public bodies do publish data on all four (the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Victoria Police Department and BC Stats), so the entries are removed. Each will be added as a measure once it has been read and checked.
• Nov 2026. Rent after inflation: the headline is the change over ten years (+43% from 2015 to 2025), but the label judged the one-year change (+4.0% from 2024 to 2025) and read About the same. The label now judges the headline figure and reads Worse. The one-year change is shown as a line of text and in the “1 year” column. The five-year change after inflation (+18.0% since 2020), already in the page text, now also fills the “5 years” column. No figure changed.
• Nov 2026. Fire department incidents: the page showed a grey “No earlier figure” label where other measures show a direction. Only one period is read here, and a direction label needs at least two comparable periods, so the label is removed until a second period is published. The figures are unchanged.
• Nov 2026. People counted as homeless on one night: the label read “No earlier figure”, but a 2023 count exists and the 2025 count changed its method. By the site’s own rule the label is now Not comparable, and the two counts are not compared.
• Nov 2026. Toxic drug death rate, B.C. vs Canada: the page described every year as opioid deaths. From 2025 the B.C. figure in the Public Health Agency of Canada series counts deaths involving any unregulated drug, including deaths still under investigation. The wording and chart title now say so; the numbers are unchanged.
• Nov 2026. Police officers: the chart spaced 2023 to 2025 like a single year, although there is no 2024 figure, and the home table showed the 2023 to 2025 change in its “1 year” column. The chart is now spaced by year, and the “1 year” column shows no change where there is no figure a year earlier. The same applies to voter turnout, whose earlier election was 2022.
• Nov 2026. City property tax vs prices: the headline stopped at 2025 because the 2026 annual price index is not out yet, although the 2026 tax ($4,557, Schedule 704 for 2026) was published. The headline is now 2026: up 12.1% from 2025 and 65.3% since 2020, against prices up 21.7% (the latest 12-month average of Victoria’s monthly index against the 2020 annual average). It switches to the 2026 annual average when Statistics Canada publishes it in January 2027. The source link now points to the 2026 schedule.
• Nov 2026. Toxic drug deaths: the headline was all of B.C. for the 2025 calendar year (1,832). It now leads with the BC Coroners Service’s South Vancouver Island health service delivery area, which covers the Greater Victoria, Western Communities, Saanich Peninsula and Southern Gulf Islands local health areas, for the latest 12 months: 124 deaths from October 2025 to September 2026, against 125 in the 12 months before (About the same). The year to date is shown underneath as preliminary (88 from January to September 2026, against 91 a year earlier), with the 2025 calendar year (127) and rates per 100,000 from the Coroners Service’s own tables (South Vancouver Island 27.4, B.C. 32.2). The Coroners Service’s “Greater Victoria Area” grouping, whose boundary it does not publish, is no longer shown.
• Nov 2026. Prices: the one-year figure read “+1.0 pt”, the change in the inflation rate, which could be read as prices rising 1%. It now reads +3.4%, the rise in prices over 12 months. The five-year column was empty; it now shows the change in the price level from the index itself (134.3 in September 2021 to 160.9 in September 2026, +19.8%).
• Nov 2026. Downtown business permits: the headline was the 2025 calendar year. It is now the latest 12 months to the latest issue date in the City’s file: 79 permits in the 12 months to November 9, 2026, against 54 in the 12 months before (Better). The year to date is shown underneath as preliminary (71 against 49 in the same days of 2025), with 2019, the last year before the pandemic, as a reference.
• Nov 2026. Housing target progress: the release date shown was January 24, 2025, the file date of the Year 1 report, kept by mistake when the page moved to the Year 2 report. It now shows the date Council received the Year 2 report (November 13, 2025) and when the next report is due under the Housing Target Order (November 14, 2026).
• Nov 2026. New homes approved: the headline was the 2025 full year (1,646, up 75.9% from 2024) and read Better, although the newer months in the same BC Stats file pointed the other way. The headline is now the latest 12 months published: 1,124 homes from September 2025 to August 2026, against 958 in the 12 months before (up 17.3%). The year to date is shown underneath as preliminary: 218 from January to August 2026, against 740 in the same months of 2025 (down 70.5%). The two point in opposite directions by more than 5%, so the label is Mixed. 786 of the 1,124 were approved in October and November 2025. The five-year comparison is the 12 months to August 2021 (1,451). A release check now fails if a label does not say Mixed when the latest 12 months and the year to date point in opposite directions.
• Nov 2026. About page: it said the site used no analytics and no tracking script. The live site counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies. The About page now says so, and a release check compares the live About page and the scripts each page loads with the build.
• Nov 2026. Voter turnout: the unit read “of eligible voters”. The City’s turnout is a share of registered voters (its voters list); the page now says so, and adds the 2022 election on the same base from the City’s 2022 statement of votes cast.
• Nov 2026. Value of building permit applications: the headline compared one quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, which a single large application can swing. It now adds every quarter the City has published for the year so far and compares that with the same months a year earlier.
• Nov 2026. City annual report dates: five pages (bylaw calls, fire incidents, reserves, spending per resident, net debt per resident) gave the latest release as July 1, 2025 for 2025 year-end figures. The City’s Annual Report 2025 file is dated July 17, 2026; the pages now show that date.
• Nov 2026. Direction labels: “For context” tiles without a label were replaced by a direction on every measure: Better / Worse / About the same where the better direction is widely agreed, Ahead of / Behind target only for published government targets, and a neutral Rising / Falling / Steady where the reading is a value judgement.
• Nov 2026. Source links: 31 measures linked to an agency home page or a general subject page. Each now links to the exact table, data file or report page.
• Nov 2026. Rent and vacancy: earlier versions used Statistics Canada’s series for buildings with six or more units (2025: $2,127 rent, 3.1% vacancy). The site now uses CMHC’s headline figures for buildings with three or more units, read from CMHC’s own data table ($2,120; 3.3%), and CMHC’s same-sample rent change (+5.1%).
• Nov 2026. Police-reported crime: earlier versions described the Victoria police figure as “Victoria and Esquimalt”. Statistics Canada counts Esquimalt separately from 2020, so the figure covers the City of Victoria only from 2020 on. The page now says so and marks the 2020 change on the chart.
• Nov 2026. Toxic drug deaths: the headline now uses the BC Coroners Service’s own series (2025: 1,832 in B.C.), counted the same way every year, with Island Health and Greater Victoria. The national series (1,855) changed its definition in 2025; its earlier caveat said the 2024 to 2025 fall was partly due to the new count, when the new count in fact makes the fall look smaller. No trend is now shown across that change.
• Nov 2026. Mortgage share of income: earlier versions said BC Stats assumes no down payment. Recalculating the published figures shows they assume the minimum down payment, as BC Stats’ formula states.
• Nov 2026. Downtown business permits: the headline was a three-year average while the chart showed yearly totals. The headline is now the latest calendar year, the same figure the chart shows.
• Nov 2026. Status labels: each measure had its own threshold. One documented rule now applies to every measure, using the agency’s own margin of error where it publishes one. Homelessness estimates no longer carry a “getting worse” label, because they rise with shelter and service use. The count of measures getting better or worse was removed from the home page.

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