These numbers are brought to us by the 2021 Canada Census.
Population and Households
Area E Population: 3,883 (up 6.0% from 2016)
Median Age: 50.8 (Canada’s median age is 41.6)
Media Household Income before taxes: $87,000
Number of dwellings: 1,763
Number of dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,608
Owners: 1,330 Renters: 285
Percentage of home owners with a mortgage: 50.4%
ALR – 15.4% of Area E is within the Agricultural Land Reserve
Number of people who are 3rd generation Canadian or greater: 2,345 or 62% of the population.
(By comparison, only 28% of people living in Metro Vancouver are third generation or greater, and in BC as a whole it’s 45%.)
Employment
Employed people: 1,890
Self employed: 550
Working from home: 435
Commuting into Metro Vancouver: 115
2022 Average Residential Property Values
Elphinstone: $887,499
Town of Gibsons: $838,503 *
West Howe Sound: $1,032,812
Roberts Creek: $1,235,785
The tax base in Area E is 97.6% residential.
SCRD Taxation by Area – 2022
Geeking out on SCRD Population/Voting Strength
The handy chart below shows the population of the SCRD. Of extra interest, the horizonal gridlines by 2,000 population also illustrate weighted voting at the board table. In financial votes, each director gets one vote per 2,000 population. So the electoral areas each have 2 votes, the SNGD has 1, Gibsons has 3, and Sechelt has 6. Or to put it another way, each time the population bar on that chart crosses rises across a gridline, it adds one weighted vote.
Note that this doesn’t come up often. Only a few votes are weighted. And most board decisions are reached with a clear majority.
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