The Columbia–Shuswap Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Southern Interior region on the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Calgary, Alberta. The regional district borders the Province of Alberta across the Rocky Mountains.
Columbia–Shuswap regional district comprises the regions known as the Shuswap Country, which focuses around Shuswap Lake and lies to the north of the Okanagan region, and the northern part of the Columbia Country, namely the "Big Bend" of the valley of the Columbia River from the Town of Golden to the historic City of Revelstoke, British Columbia. (Revelstoke is sometimes referred to as being in the North Kootenay, Golden is usually thought of as being part of the East Kootenay sub-region, the Columbia Valley). The Canada 2021 Census population was 57,021, spread over a land area of 28,929 square km and a water area of over 2,000 square km. The regional district's offices are in Salmon Arm, near the southwest corner of the regional district.
Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, an increase of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
+ Panethnic groups in the Columbia–Shuswap Regional District (2001–2021)Panethnicgroup20212016201120062001 European 48,805 44,930 44,980 45,815 44,580 Indigenous 4,405 3,645 3,280 2,760 2,155 East Asian 705 640 580 315 400 Southeast Asian 605 315 155 100 85 South Asian 585 355 400 345 330 African 245 175 95 75 100 Latin American 200 65 50 55 105 Middle Eastern 160 35 0 20 30 Other 65 45 20 15 35 Total responses 55,770 50,195 49,570 49,505 47,825 Total population 57,021 51,366 50,512 50,141 48,219 Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.
Communities
Incorporated communities City of Salmon Arm – 19,705 City of Revelstoke – 8,275 Town of Golden – 3,986 District Municipality of Sicamous – 2,613
Regional district electoral areas Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "A" – 3,097 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "B" – 706 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "C" – 7,695 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "D" – 3,899 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "E" – 1,528 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "F" – 2,731 Columbia–Shuswap Electoral Area "G" – Census data not available
Unincorporated communities
Anglemont – 454 Blind Bay – 1,149 Celista – 408 Craigellachie Eagle Bay – 528 Falkland – 805 Malakwa – 619 Notch Hill – 515 Ranchero – 971 Scotch Creek – 762 Silver Creek – 1,038 Solsqua — 333 Sorrento – 1,360 Sunnybrae – 699 Swansea Point – 243 Tappen – 773 White Lake – 623
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