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Sechelt is a seaside community with approx. 35 kilometers (20 miles) of Pacific Ocean shoreline that extends primarily along the coastline of the Sunshine Coast, and is bounded to the west and east by the unincorporated communities of Halfmoon Bay and Roberts Creek, respectively. The 2016 Canadian census placed its population at 10,200.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the shíshálh Nation Government District had a population of 765 living in 333 of its 377 total private dwellings, a change of 9.8% from its 2016 population of 697. With a land area of 11.03 km 2 (4.26 sq mi), it had a population density of 69.4/km 2 (179.6/sq mi) in 2021. [7]
Population is concentrated along the coast. Midway up the coast, beginning at the town of Sechelt, the coastal area forms a peninsula separated from the inland area by Sechelt Inlet. The 2016 census reported a total population of 29,970 persons [3] living on a land area of 3,778.17 km 2 (1,458.76 sq mi).
The population of approximately 28,000 is strung out along Highway 101, which generally traces the southern and western coastline. The major economic activities are tourism and logging. There is just one incorporated district on the peninsula - Sechelt, located at the isthmus between Sechelt Inlet and the Georgia Strait. Other communities include:
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.
British Columbia is the third-most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 residents as of 2021, and is the second-largest in land area, [a] at 920,687 km 2 (355,479 sq mi). [2] British Columbia's 161 municipalities cover only 11 percent of the province's land mass yet are home to 89 percent of its population.
Last update: should use Canada 2016 Census (April 2019) The following table lists Canada's census divisions by population in the 2016 Canadian census , from highest to lowest. Clicking on the province's two letter abbreviation will take you to a list of census divisions for that province with links.
A population centre, ... In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 108 population centres in the province of British ... Sechelt: Small: 9,434 8,993 ...