Communting in Greater Victoria

The Canadian Census has some good data on commuting. I went through that data to get some sense on this region.

Walk/Bike to work

• City of Victoria - 32.9%
• Sidney - 20.1%
• Oak Bay - 19.3%
• Esquimalt - 19.2%
• Saanich 10.9%

BC Average - 8.9%
Greater Victoria average - 16.1%

Transit top five

• Esquimalt - 16.2%
• City of Victoria - 12.6%
• Saanich - 11.3%
• View Royal - 9.9%
• Oak Bay - 9.4%

BC Average - 10.3%
Greater Victoria Average - 10.2%

Carpool passenger top five

• Oak Bay - 8.4%
• Langford - 8.1%
• Esquimalt - 7.7%
• Colwood - 7.7%
• Hihglands - 7.7%

BC average - 7.7%
Greater Victoria average - 6.8%

Driver

• Metchosin - 85.7%
• Highlands - 81.9%
• North Saanich - 81.2%
• Central Saanich - 80.4%
• Langford - 77.7%

BC average - 71.6%
Greater Victoria average - 64.9%

From 2001 to 2006 BC had a rather dramatic rise in transit users, 54% more transit users but Greater Victoria did not see this sort of a rise. There was only a 17% more transit users in the CRD.

I need to head off with Max to the store, so this is the end of this at the moment.