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Victoria’s share of the region’s shelter and homeless housing

Calculated herePublic, not open-licensedArea: City of Victoria compared with Comparison area: Capital Region March 31, 2025 · Where this covers · How we calculated this

86% of the region’s units

For context

2,039 of 2,359 units in the region. The City has 22.4% of the region's residents

Source: Calculated here from BC Housing and BC Stats data, Mar 31, 2025 · How we calculated this

What it measures

Of the shelter spaces, supportive housing and homeless rent supplements administered by BC Housing in the Capital Region, the share located in the City of Victoria, next to the City’s share of the region’s residents.

Why it matters

Where services are located affects both the people who use them and the neighbourhoods around them. This shows the distribution without judging it.

Over time

Reading this page

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. 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. The rules.

How we calculated this

Calculated herePublic, not open-licensed This figure is not published by an agency as is. It is calculated here, by script, from the public data listed below. It belongs with People without a home during the year.

Formula

Share of units = City units ÷ all Capital Region units. Share of population = City population ÷ Capital Region population (BC Stats, July 1).

With the latest numbers

  • Units: 2,039 ÷ 2,359 = 86.4%.
  • Population 2025: 103,888 ÷ 464,082 = 22.4%.
  • Ratio: 86.4 ÷ 22.4 = 3.9.

Inputs

Keep in mind

  • 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.

Retrieved Nov 11, 2026, 1:24 AM B.C. time. This page’s data and calculation (JSON).

Source

Calculated here from
BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs), BC Stats
Period
March 31, 2025
Updated
Annually (as of March 31)
Retrieved
Nov 11, 2026, 1:24 AM B.C. time
Text checked in the agency’s document

The script reads the agency’s own document each time and refuses to show a number unless this text is found.

  • Capital sheet, column 'Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless Total': Victoria 2,039; Capital (Regional District total row) 2,359 (March 31, 2025)
Show the numbers as a table
Share of the Capital Region (%) (newest first)
PeriodShelter and homeless housing unitsResidents
202586.422.4

Where this covers

Area: City of Victoria

The City of Victoria municipality only, all neighbourhoods.

Included

  • All City of Victoria neighbourhoods, including Downtown, James Bay, Fairfield, Fernwood, Oaklands, Hillside/Quadra, North Park, Burnside, Victoria West, Rockland, Jubilee and Gonzales

Not included

  • Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford and every other municipality in the region

Official definition

Shown for comparison

  • Comparison area: Capital Region The Capital Regional District: 13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas, including the Southern Gulf Islands and Salt Spring Island.

How the agency describes it: City of Victoria compared with the Capital Regional District.

Connected to: Provincial (BC Housing funding), Municipal and regional (land use and siting). This is a label, not a judgement.

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