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People walking past downtown counters

Public, not open-licensedArea: Downtown Victoria Q2 2026 (April to June) · Where this covers

1.64M counted passes in the quarter

Getting worse

1,824,657 in Q2 2025; the City reports -11.5%

Calculated change differs from the City’s figure

Source: City of Victoria, Apr–Jun 2026 · Full source

What it measures

How many times people walked past automated counters at fixed downtown locations in the quarter, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

Why it matters

Foot traffic is a direct sign of downtown activity for shops, restaurants and services.

Over time

Line chart, 2 periods from Q2 2025 to Q2 2026. People walking past downtown counters: starts at 1,824,657 counted passes in the quarter (Q2 2025), ends at 1,636,533 counted passes in the quarter (Q2 2026); highest 1,824,657 counted passes in the quarter (Q2 2025), lowest 1,636,533 counted passes in the quarter (Q2 2026). Every value is in the table.1,600,0001,700,0001,800,0001,900,000202520261,824,6571,636,533Q2 2025: 1,824,657 counted passes in the quarterQ2 2026: 1,636,533 counted passes in the quarter

The scale starts at 1,600,000 (not zero), so the changes look larger than they would on a scale from zero. Tap, hover or drag along the chart to see each value.

How we decided “getting worse”

A higher number means more people walked past the downtown counters. 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. The rules.

Source

Period
Q2 2026 (April to June)
Licence
Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
Updated by agency
Quarterly (City economic dashboard); latest release not stated
Retrieved
Nov 11, 2026, 1:37 AM B.C. time

Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.

Text checked in the agency’s document

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  • 1,636,533 Current 46 free concerts pedestrians
  • down 11.5% from Q2 2025
  • 2025 (1,824,657) 200,000 2026 (1,636,533)
Show the numbers as a table
People walking past downtown counters, Downtown Victoria (newest first)
PeriodValue
Q2 20261,636,533
Q2 20251,824,657

Keep in mind

  • 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.

Where this covers

Area: Downtown Victoria

The City of Victoria’s Downtown neighbourhood only.

Included

  • The Downtown neighbourhood as drawn on the City of Victoria’s official neighbourhood map

Not included

  • Every other City neighbourhood (for example James Bay, Fairfield, North Park and Burnside)
  • All other municipalities

Official definition

How the agency describes it: Downtown Victoria (automated counters at fixed locations).

Connected to: Visitors, workers and residents, Municipal (downtown programs). This is a label, not a judgement.

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