Ibex Valley, Yukon

Ibex Valley is a hamlet in Canada's Yukon. The hamlet is considered a local advisory area with an advisory council providing local government. Its population, according to the 2021 Canadian Census, was 523.

Geography Ibex Valley comprises residential areas along the Alaska Highway immediately outside the Whitehorse city limits as far as approximately historical mile 945, as well as a small number of sideroads, including a five-mile loop of the original Alaska Highway alignment from Mile 929 to 934. The hamlet is part of the Whitehorse Census Agglomeration.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ibex Valley 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.

Seventy percent of Ibex Valley's population is non-aboriginal.

+ Panethnic groups in the Hamlet of Ibex Valley (2001−2021)Panethnic group2021201620062001 European 465 310 275 220 Indigenous 185 115 95 90 African 0 10 10 0 East Asian 0 10 0 0 South Asian 0 0 0 0 Southeast Asian 0 0 0 0 Middle Eastern 0 0 0 0 Latin American 0 0 0 0 Other/multiracial 0 0 0 10 Total responses 650 430 375 315 Total population 523 411 376 315

Economy While most residents work in Whitehorse, some residents are engaged in agriculture or wilderness tourism activities.

Infrastructure Ibex Valley has a volunteer fire department.

Ibex Valley, Yukon

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