Passenger trips on Victoria regional transit

The change is 4.0% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.

More trips means more people are using the buses. 25,580.7 thousand trips in the 12 months to August 2026, against 24,598.5 thousand in the 12 months before (sums of the monthly figures). Latest month, August 2026: 2,068.1 thousand (1,880.4 a year earlier).

Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.

Why it matters. It shows how many people use the buses that BC Transit and the regional Transit Commission run.

• Statistics Canada’s Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey, total passenger trips reported by BC Transit for the Victoria Regional Transit System. The table is in thousands of trips.
• The table does not define a trip and starts in January 2023, so it is not compared with BC Transit’s own ridership reports or with years before 2023.
• The headline adds up the latest 12 months, so one month does not move it. The latest month is shown as a line.

Area: Victoria Regional Transit

BC Transit’s Victoria Regional Transit System, which runs buses across most of the Capital Region.

Included

• Bus routes in the Victoria Regional Transit System, from Sidney to Sooke, including the City of Victoria

Not included

• Salt Spring Island and Gulf Islands transit, which are separate systems
• No City-only figure is published

Official definition

• BC Transit: Victoria Regional Transit Commission

How the agency describes it: BC Transit, Victoria Regional Transit System (Greater Victoria).

This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own file.

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Published by

Statistics Canada, passenger bus and urban transit statistics, by urban transit agency, table 23-10-0307-01

Licence

Open Government Licence - Canada

Updated by agency

Monthly; latest release Oct 21, 2026

Retrieved

Nov 11, 2026, 11:22 PM B.C. time

Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 23-10-0307-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.