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The Comox Valley Regional District is a regional district in
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,
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. It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the southeastern portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, and centred about the
Comox Valley The Comox Valley is a region on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, that includes the city of Courtenay, the town of Comox, the village of Cumberland, and the unincorporated settlements of Royston, Union Bay, Fann ...
. The partition left the new Comox Valley Regional District with only 8.4 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but 57.9 percent of its population. The CVRD covers an area of 2,425 square kilometres, of which 1,725 square kilometres is land (the remainder is water), and serves a population of 72,445 according to the 2023 Census. The district borders the Strathcona Regional District to the northwest, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District to the southwest, and the
Regional District of Nanaimo The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the south by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, to the west by the Alberni-Clayoquot Re ...
to the southeast, as well as the
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along the
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to the east. Two
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s, K'omoks Indian Reserve No. 1 and Puntledge Indian Reserve No. 2 lie within its territory but are outside its jurisdiction. The census divisions comprising the new Regional District are the city of Courtenay, the town of Comox, the village of
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, the district of Black Creek, Electoral Areas A, B, and C, and the two stated Indian reserves. The administrative offices are in
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.


Demographics

As a
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in the
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conducted by
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, the Comox Valley 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. *Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.


Incorporated communities

* Town of Comox * City of Courtenay * Village of Cumberland


Unincorporated communities


Comox Valley A

Known as the Baynes Sound-Denman/Hornby Islands electoral area, this electoral area includes the southern portion of the district, on the border with the Alberni-Clayoquot and
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Regional Districts. According to the
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: *Population: 7,293 *% Change (2011-2016): 4.5% *Dwellings: 4,360 *Area (km2): 491.99 *Density (persons per km2): 14.7


Communities

*
Denman Island Denman Island, (also known by Sla-dai-aich or Taystayic, in the Comox language), is one of the Northern Gulf Islands and part of the Comox Valley Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Islands Trust group of ...
* Fanny Bay * Hornby Island * Royston * Union Bay


Comox Valley B

Known as the Lazo North electoral area, this electoral area surrounds the town of Comox. It has no administrative or governmental function and is used only to select rural representatives to the regional district board. According to the 2016 Census: *Population: 7,095 (exclusive of any on-Indian Reserve residents) *% Change (2011–2016): 2.2% *Dwellings: 3,026 *Area (km2): 54.28 *Density (persons per km2): 117.9


Communities

* Balmoral Beach * Bates Beach *
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* Lazo *
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* Sandwick


Comox Valley C

Known as the Puntledge/Black Creek electoral area, it is located between Courtenay, Campbell River and
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. According to the 2016 Census: *Population: 8,617 (exclusive of any residents of
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) *% Change (2011–2016): 3.5% *Dwellings: 3,572 *Area (km2): 1073.96 *Density (persons per km2): 7.1


Communities

* Bevan * Black Creek *
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* Merville *
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*Puntledge * Saratoga Beach * Williams Beach


Transit

Comox Valley Transit is the regional
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system, operated by Watson and Ash Transportation. Funding is provided under a partnership between the region and
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, the provincial agency which plans and manages municipal transit systems.


See also

* Mount Geoffrey Regional Nature Park


Notes


References


External links

* {{Coord, 49, 45, 00, N, 125, 00, 00, W, region:CA-BC_type:adm2nd_dim:60km, display=title Regional districts of British Columbia