This high rate of active commuting is partly because climate allows year-round walking and cycling, but high population density is also important.
A recent article in The Economist about active transportation rated Victoria 382nd out of 794 cities around the world for the share of its population who walk and cycle to work.
The average in Canadian cities is only 6.5 percent. More specifically, 23 per cent commute on foot and 10 per cent by bike in Victoria, and each of those shares is not only the highest of any Canadian city but about twice as high as Vancouver, the second ranked city. When I looked further into the 2021 census I found that Victoria, by population the 66th largest city in Canada, nevertheless ranked first or second for about a dozen things related to housing, buildings and demography.
A major reason for the low household size is that Victoria has easily the highest proportion of people living alone of in any city in Canada. To house a population increase of 10,000, Victoria will have to provide about 5,600 new dwellings; Chilliwack will have to build about 3,800.
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