Central Coast Regional District is a

regional district In the province of British Columbia in Canada, a regional district is an administrative subdivision of the province that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and governmental authority. there were 28 regional districts in t ...

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, Canada. It has a total land area of 24,559.5 km² (9,482.5 sq mi). When it was created in 1968, it was known as the Ocean Falls Regional District, named for the then-largest town in the region, the company town of

Ocean Falls Ocean Falls is a community on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Formerly a large company town owned by Crown Zellerbach, it is accessible only via boat or seaplane, and is home for a few dozen full-time residents, with the seasonal ...

, which has since become a

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. The district name was confirmed in 1974, but changed to Central Coast Regional District in 1976.

Demographics

As a

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in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, the Central Coast Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Government

The Central Coast Regional District (CCRD) is unique in the province in that it has no incorporated municipalities within its borders. The Regional District has five Electoral Areas, each of which elect a single director to the District's Board of Directors. According to the 2001 Census, the populations of the electoral areas are:

References

Community Profile: Central Coast Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada

External links

* Regional districts of British Columbia {{BritishColumbiaCoast-geo-stub