Net number of people moving to Greater Victoria

Whether more or fewer people moving in is better is a value judgement. The change is 59.3% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.

Net migration from all sources in 2024/25: +4,313 (immigrants 3,099, net emigration -750, other provinces +1,414, elsewhere in B.C. +1,772, non-permanent residents -1,222). 2023/24: +10,597.

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 much of the region’s growth comes from people moving here. It is shown for context, without a better or worse label.

• Calculated here: immigrants, minus net emigration, plus net migration from other provinces, from elsewhere in B.C. and of non-permanent residents (people on study or work permits and asylum claimants), as Statistics Canada estimates them.
• Each year runs from July 1 to June 30. The latest year is preliminary and is revised.
• Births and deaths are not part of this figure; they are listed for reference.

Area: Greater Victoria (CMA)

Statistics Canada’s Victoria metropolitan area: 13 municipalities plus nearby electoral-area and reserve lands.

Included

• Victoria
• Saanich
• Oak Bay
• Esquimalt
• View Royal
• Langford
• Colwood
• Highlands
• Metchosin
• Sooke
• Central Saanich
• North Saanich
• Sidney
• Juan de Fuca electoral area, part 1 (for example East Sooke, Jordan River and Shirley)
• First Nations reserves: Cole Bay 3, Union Bay 4, East Saanich 2, South Saanich 1, Becher Bay 1, Esquimalt, New Songhees 1A and T'Sou-ke

Not included

• Salt Spring Island
• Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna islands)
• Port Renfrew area (Juan de Fuca electoral area, part 2)

Official definition

• Statistics Canada: Victoria census metropolitan area (CMA 935), 2021 definition

How the agency describes it: Victoria census metropolitan area (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.

Where the change came from, 2024/25

• Immigrants: 3,099 (2024/25). 2023/24: 3,308.
• Net emigration: +750 (2024/25). 2023/24: +733.
• Net interprovincial migration: +1,414 (2024/25). 2023/24: +1,716.
• Net intraprovincial migration: +1,772 (2024/25). 2023/24: +2,027.
• Net non-permanent residents: -1,222 (2024/25). 2023/24: +4,279.

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Annually (January); latest release Jan 14, 2026

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