The District of Metchosin is a municipality and community in

Greater Victoria Greater Victoria (also known as the Greater Victoria Region) is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is usually defined as the thirteen municipalities of the Capital Regional District (CRD) ...

on the southern tip of

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, Canada. It is a coastal community adjacent to the

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. Metchosin is part of the

Western Communities The Western Communities, also called the West Shore (e.g.West Shore RCMP or Westshore (e.gWestshore Town Centre, is the suburban municipalities of Colwood, British Columbia, Colwood, Langford, British Columbia, Langford, Metchosin, British Columbi ...

and one of the 13 regional municipalities.

Climate

Metchosin has a

warm-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

(

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: ''Csb'') in parts caused by the rain shadow and to the east of the strait of the

, but keeping some

oceanic Oceanic may refer to: *Of or relating to the ocean *Of or relating to Oceania **Oceanic climate **Oceanic languages **Oceanic person or people, also called "Pacific Islander(s)" Places * Oceanic, British Columbia, a settlement on Smith Island, ...

characteristics (''Cfb'').

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, Ireland has very close temperatures with only a slightly warmer summer. The biggest difference is in the summer drying, common of the

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Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Metchosin had a population of 5,067 living in 1,856 of its 1,938 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 4,708. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Religion

According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Metchosin included: *

Irreligion Irreligion or nonreligion is the absence or rejection of religion, or indifference to it. Irreligion takes many forms, ranging from the casual and unaware to full-fledged philosophies such as atheism and agnosticism, secular humanism and a ...

(3,120 persons or 66.2%) *

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

(1,480 persons or 31.4%) *

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(20 persons or 0.4%) *Other (80 persons or 1.7%)

Parks

* Albert Head Lagoon Regional Park * Blinkhorn Nature Park * Buckbrush Swamp * Devonian Regional Park * Matheson Lake Regional Park * Witty's Lagoon Regional Park * Galloping Goose Regional Park

References

External links

* {{authority control District municipalities in British Columbia Greater Victoria Populated places in the Capital Regional District