{ "id": "shelter-housing-share", "parent": "people-experiencing-homelessness", "category": "Homelessness and drugs", "title": "Victoria's share of the region's shelter and homeless housing, compared with its share of population", "geography": "City of Victoria compared with the Capital Regional District", "scope": "city", "levels": [ "Provincial (BC Housing funding)", "Municipal and regional (land use and siting)" ], "plain_question": "Of the shelter beds and housing for people experiencing homelessness that BC Housing administers in the Capital Region, what share is in the City of Victoria, compared with the City's share of the region's people?", "value": 86.4, "display_value": "86%", "unit": "of the region's units (City has 22% of residents)", "period": "March 31, 2025", "period_start": "2025-03-31", "period_end": "2025-03-31", "comparison": { "previous_period": "March 31, 2025", "previous_value": 22.4, "change_percent": null }, "since_text": "2,039 of 2,359 units in the region. The City has 22.4% of the region's residents", "trend": "context", "trend_basis": "At March 31, 2025, 2,039 of the 2,359 units in BC Housing's “Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless” group in the Capital Region were in the City of Victoria (86.4%). The City had 103,888 of the region's 464,082 residents in 2025 (22.4%), so its share of these units is 3.9 times its share of population.", "direction_good": "down", "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label. Services are often placed where people already seek help, and this page does not judge where they should be.", "caveats": [ "Counts units administered by BC Housing in its “Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless” group (supportive housing, homeless rent supplements and shelters) on March 31. Shelters and housing funded by others are not included.", "Rent supplements are counted where the program is administered, which may not be where the person lives.", "BC Housing suppresses some small counts in its tables (shown as XX); the regional total is BC Housing's own and includes them.", "The BC Data Catalogue lists this dataset as “Access Only”, which is not an open licence. It is shown here as public data with attribution." ], "charts": [ { "title": "Share of the Capital Region (%)", "fmt": "dec1", "unit": "%", "lines": [ { "name": "Shelter and homeless housing units", "area": "city", "series": [ { "period": "2025", "value": 86.4 } ] }, { "name": "Residents", "area": "city", "series": [ { "period": "2025", "value": 22.4 } ] } ] } ], "calc": { "formula": "Share of units = City units ÷ all Capital Region units. Share of population = City population ÷ Capital Region population (BC Stats, July 1).", "steps": [ "Units: 2,039 ÷ 2,359 = 86.4%.", "Population 2025: 103,888 ÷ 464,082 = 22.4%.", "Ratio: 86.4 ÷ 22.4 = 3.9." ], "inputs": [ { "name": "Non-market Housing (2025): units under BC Housing administration by municipality and service group, Capital Regional District", "agency": "BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs)", "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e6b53f5e-bbc9-4343-adf4-1d9e973422da/resource/eb2de011-0b7b-4454-b40d-d48afb34bedf/download/mah-housing-continuum-march-31-2025-final.xlsx", "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/non-market-housing-2025-", "period": "March 31, 2025", "licence": { "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.", "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright", "open": false, "note": "Listed in the BC Data Catalogue as “Access Only”." }, "data_published": "2026-11-02" }, { "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": "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": "2025" } ] }, "refresh_frequency": "Annually (as of March 31)", "verified_text": [ "Capital sheet, column 'Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless Total': Victoria 2,039; Capital (Regional District total row) 2,359 (March 31, 2025)" ], "source": { "name": "Calculated here from BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs) and BC Stats data", "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e6b53f5e-bbc9-4343-adf4-1d9e973422da/resource/eb2de011-0b7b-4454-b40d-d48afb34bedf/download/mah-housing-continuum-march-31-2025-final.xlsx", "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/non-market-housing-2025-" }, "licence": { "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.", "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright", "open": false, "note": "Listed in the BC Data Catalogue as “Access Only”." }, "derived": true, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:24:29Z", "data_published": "2026-11-02", "series": [ { "period": "2025", "value": 86.4 } ], "licence_type": "public" }