The Comox Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Comox Valley Regional District It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the southeastern portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, and centred about the Comox Valley. The partition left the new Comox Valley Regional District with only 8.4 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but 57.9 percent of its population. The CVRD covers an area of 2,425 square kilometres, of which 1,725 square kilometres is land (the remainder is water), and serves a population of 72,445 according to the 2023 Census. The district borders the Strathcona Regional District to the northwest, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District to the southwest, and the Regional District of Nanaimo to the southeast, as well as the qathet Regional District along the Strait of Georgia to the east.
Two Indian reserves, K'omoks Indian Reserve No. 1 and Puntledge Indian Reserve No. 2, lie within its territory but are outside its jurisdiction. The census divisions comprising the new Regional District are the city of Courtenay, the town of Comox, the village of Cumberland, the district of Black Creek, Electoral Areas A, B, and C, and the two stated Indian reserves.
The administrative offices are in Courtenay, British Columbia.
Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Comox Valley Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
+ Panethnic groups in the Comox Valley Regional District (2001−2021)Panethnicgroup202120162011 European 61,875 58,640 57,425 Indigenous 5,210 3,825 2,910 East Asian 1,230 1,180 800 Southeast Asian 1,050 630 610 South Asian 660 400 170 African 425 320 245 Latin American 265 130 150 Middle Eastern 120 65 25 Other 290 170 125 Total responses 71,115 65,355 62,460 Total population 72,445 66,527 63,538 Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.
Incorporated communities Town of Comox City of Courtenay Village of Cumberland
Unincorporated communities Comox Valley A Known as the Baynes Sound-Denman/Hornby Islands electoral area, this electoral area includes the southern portion of the district, on the border with the Alberni-Clayoquot and Nanaimo Regional Districts.
According to the 2016 Canada Census: Population: 7,293 % Change (2011-2016): 4.5% Dwellings: 4,360 Area (km2): 491.99 Density (persons per km2): 14.7
Communities Denman Island Fanny Bay Hornby Island Royston Union Bay
Comox Valley B
Known as the Lazo North electoral area, this electoral area surrounds the town of Comox. It has no administrative or governmental function and is used only to select rural representatives to the regional district board.
According to the 2016 Census: Population: 7,095 (exclusive of any on-Indian Reserve residents) % Change (2011–2016): 2.2% Dwellings: 3,026 Area (km2): 54.28 Density (persons per km2): 117.9
Communities Balmoral Beach Bates Beach Grantham Lazo Little River Sandwick
Comox Valley C
Known as the Puntledge/Black Creek electoral area, it is located between Courtenay, Campbell River and Strathcona Provincial Park.
According to the 2016 Census: Population: 8,617 (exclusive of any residents of Indian Reserves) % Change (2011–2016): 3.5% Dwellings: 3,572 Area (km2): 1073.96 Density (persons per km2): 7.1
Communities Bevan Black Creek Headquarters Merville Mount Washington Puntledge Saratoga Beach Williams Beach
Transit
Comox Valley Transit is the regional public transportation system, operated by Watson and Ash Transportation. Funding is provided under a partnership between the region and BC Transit, the provincial agency which plans and manages municipal transit systems.
See also Mount Geoffrey Regional Nature Park
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