{
  "geography": "Downtown Victoria (automated counters at fixed locations)",
  "scope": "city",
  "period": "Q2 2026 (April to June)",
  "period_start": "2026-04-01",
  "period_end": "2026-06-28",
  "refresh_frequency": "Quarterly (City economic dashboard)",
  "id": "downtown-pedestrian-counts",
  "category": "Downtown",
  "title": "People walking past downtown counters",
  "levels": [
    "Visitors, workers and residents",
    "Municipal (downtown programs)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many people walked past the City's automated downtown counters in the quarter, compared with the same quarter a year earlier?",
  "value": 1636533,
  "display_value": "1.64M",
  "unit": "counted passes, Q2 2026",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Q2 2025",
    "previous_value": 1824657,
    "change_percent": -11.5
  },
  "since_text": "1,824,657 in Q2 2025; the City reports -11.5%",
  "trend": "worsening",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "trend_basis": "1,636,533 counted passes in Q2 2026, compared with 1,824,657 in Q2 2025. The City reports this as down 11.5%; the two totals as printed give -10.3%. The status uses the City's published totals.",
  "right_direction": "A higher number means more people walked past the downtown counters.",
  "caveats": [
    "Counts come from the City's automated counters at fixed downtown locations; the same person can be counted more than once, and the totals are not all pedestrian activity downtown.",
    "The City's report credits the counts to the Downtown Victoria Business Association (DVBA) counters.",
    "The City notes that counters out of service in either year were excluded from both years to keep the comparison like-for-like.",
    "The percentage printed by the City (-11.5%) differs from the change between the two printed totals (-10.3%); the report does not explain the difference.",
    "Only one quarter and the same quarter a year earlier are read from each report."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "Q2 2025",
      "value": 1824657
    },
    {
      "period": "Q2 2026",
      "value": 1636533
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/building-business/economic-development",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "1,636,533 Current 46 free concerts pedestrians",
    "down 11.5% from Q2 2025",
    "2025 (1,824,657) 200,000 2026 (1,636,533)"
  ],
  "data_published": null,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:37:37Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public"
}