Talk:List of population centres in British Columbia

White Rock??

White Rock is the only suburb of Vancouver listed separately, why is this? It is part of Metro Vancouver. (Abbotsford and Chilliwack - conventionally considered Fraser Valley rather than suburbs, but this is changing with population growth, are not part of the GVRD/Metro Vancouver) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.246.130.230 (talk) 00:23, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

It's confusing for sure. But the population centre of White Rock includes the municipal boundaries of South Surrey as well. The reason they are considered separate population centres is due to the rural area in between Surrey and South Surrey. By definition, "there must be a population of at least 1,000 and a population density of 400 persons or more per square kilometre" otherwise it becomes rural thus terminating the "population centre". The website dictionary for Stats Canada explains more: https://census.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/dict/az/Definition-eng.cfm?ID=geo049a

But as a CMA, White Rock is included along with Abbotsford and Delta etc, as "Vancouver". H 19rayy (talk) 08:02, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

• Adding to the confusion, White Rock is shown with a population of more than 100,000 when our own article on the city says less than 22,000. I think a footnote is needed for White Rock as well as for Vancouver in order to explain why the cities of Burnaby, Surrey, the Coquitlams, New Westminster, etc., are not listed. 23skidoo (talk) 19:41, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2019

Hi, I have noticed that the population for Prince George for 2016 was off by a fair amount. The actual population for 2016 was 74,003 people, just a small typo I thought that I would point out! 2001:569:FA61:9700:DDC:3F67:71AC:9D1B (talk) 18:55, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

•  Not done The population of the population centre of Prince George is not the same thing as the population of the municipality of Prince George. The "population centre" only counts the number of people who live in the urban core, and excludes people who live in more rural and less densely-populated parts of the city — for example, people who live on Roughton Road, Swanson Road, Cranbrook Hill Road, Austin Road east of Dawson, Sintich Road, Hoferkamp Road or Wansa Road are in the city, but not in the population centre, because those roads are in less urbanized parts of the city.
  The population centre data in this list is correct, per this page, because the population centre is not the same thing as the city.
  If you need additional clarification, this is the map of the whole city, while this is the map of the population centre — please note that they're not showing the same set of boundaries, but rather the population centre is a specific part of the city and not the whole city. Please note, as well, that this article already explains the difference between a population centre and a municipality. Bearcat (talk) 19:14, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 July 2019

the population of White Rock is around 19500. 64.180.63.207 (talk) 02:04, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

 Not done See the explanation above in response to a similar request in relation to Prince George. Hwy43 (talk) 03:42, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

The population of the population centre of White Rock is not the same thing as the population of the city of White Rock. For approximately the squillionth time, population centres do not correspond to municipalities — they correspond to uninterrupted blocks of urbanity, and completely ignore political boundaries. An area inside the city of White Rock can be not part of the population centre if it falls below an urban standard of population density, and an area outside the city of White Rock can be in White Rock's population centre if its urbanity is directly contiguous with White Rock's. In actual fact, White Rock's population centre includes the adjacent South Surrey neighbourhood in Surrey — and in fact the article already explains this, because the "Characteristics" section explicitly uses White Rock-South Surrey as one of its examples of what the term population centre actually means, so all you've really told us here is that you didn't read the damn article in the first place. If you don't like the way population centres are defined, then take it up with Statistics Canada, because our job is to precisely replicate the names and figures they attach to what they define as population centres, not to make up our own alternate names or numbers or boundaries. Bearcat (talk) 13:18, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Kamloops Population

Kamloops is ranked as the 7th largest municipality on this list, with a 2016 population of 78,000. In reality, the census reported a 2016 population of approx 92,000. Am I missing something here? ChickenChocken (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

ChickenChocken, please read Talk:List of population centres in Ontario#Huntsville population is incorrectly stated. Your are on the wrong list if you want populations based on actual municipal boundaries. See List of municipalities in British Columbia for that. Hwy43 (talk) 00:06, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

78,000 isn’t mentioned anywhere, on any border organization, of Kamloops. In fact, I can’t find the number anywhere. ChickenChocken (talk) 01:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

ChickenChocken, click the second reference in the References section. Once you land on the StatCan page and scroll to Kamloops, click Kamloops to view a map of the boundaries of the Kamloops "population centre". See how it differs from the actual boundary of the City of Kamloops. Hwy43 (talk) 07:29, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Chetwynd

I don’t see Chetwynd on this list. 2001:569:F88D:8400:D52:89B6:A740:36C5 (talk) 13:47, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Must be because Chetwynd's urban core doesn't exceed a population of 1,000. Hwy43 (talk) 15:39, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Surrey

Why is Surrey not on this list???? 2604:3D08:D17F:F6D0:E190:BFFF:FAC4:1FA0 (talk) 02:16, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Richmond population 216,000 people ??

add richmond B.C. ?? Zackary Xavier Bilkowski (talk) 09:17, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Coquitlam

https://worldpopulationreview.com/canadian-cities/coquitlam-population 207.194.98.107 (talk) 02:49, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Footnotes needed

I mention this in a thread up-page, but I think footnotes are necessary for the listings for White Rock and Vancouver to explain why Surrey, Burnaby, etc. are not listed and White Rock is shown with a population of close to 5 times its actual city limits population. 23skidoo (talk) 19:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC)