{
  "id": "homes-approved-per-1000",
  "parent": "new-homes-approved",
  "category": "Housing and homelessness",
  "title": "New homes approved per 1,000 residents",
  "geography": "City of Victoria, compared with the Capital Regional District and British Columbia",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Municipal (permits issued by the City)",
    "Private builders"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Allowing for population, how many new homes are approved each year in the City compared with the region and the province?",
  "value": 11.0,
  "display_value": "11.0",
  "unit": "homes a year per 1,000 residents",
  "period": "Calendar years 2023–2025 (yearly average)",
  "period_start": "2023-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2020–2022",
    "previous_value": 10.0,
    "change_percent": 10.5
  },
  "since_text": "Was 10.0 in 2020–2022. 2025: City 15.8, Capital Region 9.7, B.C. 8.3",
  "trend": "improving",
  "trend_basis": "City of Victoria: 11.0 homes approved a year per 1,000 residents in 2023–2025, compared with 10.0 in 2020–2022 (+10.5%). Three-year averages are used because one large building can swing a single year. Same period: Capital Region 10.7, B.C. 8.5.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "A higher number means more new homes are being approved relative to the number of people who live there.",
  "caveats": [
    "Calculated here: residential units in building permits (Statistics Canada's Building Permits survey, published by BC Stats) divided by BC Stats' July 1 population estimate for the same area and year.",
    "Approvals are not completions. Some approved homes are built years later, and some are never built.",
    "Single years are lumpy, so the headline uses three-year averages. The chart shows each year.",
    "Municipal reporting to the survey is not always complete. Years before 2018 are not directly comparable. The current year (2026) is incomplete and not shown."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "New homes approved per 1,000 residents, each year",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "per 1,000",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "City of Victoria",
          "area": "city",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 13.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 6.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 6.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 12.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 11.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 8.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 9.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 15.8
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Capital Region",
          "area": "crd",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 12.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 8.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 7.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 11.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 10.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 10.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 11.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 9.7
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "All of B.C.",
          "area": "bc",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 9.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 9.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 7.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 8.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 10.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 8.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 8.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 8.3
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "calc": {
    "formula": "Homes approved per 1,000 residents = residential units in building permits issued in the year ÷ population on July 1 × 1,000. Headline: three years of units ÷ three years of population × 1,000.",
    "steps": [
      "City of Victoria 2025: 1,646 ÷ 103,888 × 1,000 = 15.8.",
      "Capital Region 2025: 4,518 ÷ 464,082 × 1,000 = 9.7.",
      "All of B.C. 2025: 47,430 ÷ 5,697,536 × 1,000 = 8.3.",
      "City 2023–2025: 3,392 ÷ 307,522 × 1,000 = 11.0 a year."
    ],
    "inputs": [
      {
        "name": "Residential building permits, total units, by municipality and regional district",
        "agency": "BC Stats (from Statistics Canada's Building Permits survey)",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/45a00be0-d572-4e42-be18-1bbaaf6c85ee/resource/dbc42bcc-75b3-4d48-a8b9-aefdd2608e63/download/resunitstotal.csv",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/45a00be0-d572-4e42-be18-1bbaaf6c85ee",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
        },
        "period": "2018 to 2025",
        "data_published": "2026-10-22",
        "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, Building Permits. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product."
      },
      {
        "name": "Population estimates, July 1 (Municipalities (Census Subdivisions))",
        "agency": "BC Stats",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/86839277-986a-4a29-9f70-fa9b1166f6cb/resource/0e15d04d-127c-457a-b999-20800c929927/download/municipality-population.csv",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-sub-provincial-population-estimates-and-projections",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
        },
        "data_published": "2026-05-29",
        "period": "2018 to 2025"
      },
      {
        "name": "Population estimates, July 1 (Regional Districts (Census Divisions))",
        "agency": "BC Stats",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/86839277-986a-4a29-9f70-fa9b1166f6cb/resource/36610a52-6f90-4ed6-946d-587641a490df/download/regional-district-population.csv",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-sub-provincial-population-estimates-and-projections",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
        },
        "data_published": "2026-05-29",
        "period": "2018 to 2025"
      }
    ]
  },
  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly (permits); annually (population)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Calculated here from BC Stats (from Statistics Canada's Building Permits survey) and BC Stats data",
    "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/45a00be0-d572-4e42-be18-1bbaaf6c85ee/resource/dbc42bcc-75b3-4d48-a8b9-aefdd2608e63/download/resunitstotal.csv",
    "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/45a00be0-d572-4e42-be18-1bbaaf6c85ee"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
    "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
  },
  "derived": true,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T07:38:24Z",
  "data_published": "2026-10-22",
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, Building Permits. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "value": 13.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 6.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "value": 6.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 12.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": 11.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 8.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 9.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 15.8
    }
  ]
}