{
  "id": "city-population",
  "category": "Economy",
  "title": "People living in the City of Victoria",
  "geography": "City of Victoria (municipality)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Births, deaths and migration",
    "Housing supply"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many people live in the City of Victoria, and how fast is that changing?",
  "value": 103888,
  "display_value": "103,888",
  "unit": "residents (July 1 estimate)",
  "period": "July 1, 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-07-01",
  "period_end": "2025-07-01",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "July 1, 2024",
    "previous_value": 103077,
    "change_percent": 0.8
  },
  "since_text": "Was 103,077 in 2024 (+0.8%). Share of the Capital Region: 22.4%",
  "trend": "context",
  "trend_basis": "103,888 residents on July 1, 2025, compared with 103,077 a year earlier (+0.8%) and 82,453 in 2011 (+26.0%). Capital Region: 464,082.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "Population is shown for context, so it has no “better” or “worse” label. It is the denominator for the per-resident measures on this site.",
  "caveats": [
    "BC Stats estimates are revised each year, and the latest year is preliminary.",
    "Estimates count people who usually live in the City, not commuters, students living elsewhere or visitors."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2011",
      "value": 82453
    },
    {
      "period": "2012",
      "value": 83427
    },
    {
      "period": "2013",
      "value": 85131
    },
    {
      "period": "2014",
      "value": 86573
    },
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "value": 88262
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
      "value": 90236
    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
      "value": 91802
    },
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "value": 93655
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 95799
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "value": 96392
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 96278
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": 98537
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 100557
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 103077
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 103888
    }
  ],
  "series_note": "July 1 estimates",
  "source": {
    "name": "BC Stats, sub-provincial population estimates",
    "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics/people-population-community/population/population-estimates",
    "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-sub-provincial-population-estimates-and-projections",
    "download_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/86839277-986a-4a29-9f70-fa9b1166f6cb/resource/0e15d04d-127c-457a-b999-20800c929927/download/municipality-population.csv"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
    "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
  },
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (January)",
  "data_published": "2026-05-29",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:10:44Z",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.",
  "licence_type": "open"
}