Surrey Demographics

Surrey geographically is the largest city in British Columbia. Its population is second to Vancouver but it’s expected to become the largest city in BC with 760,000 residents by 2041. The immigrant population in Surrey has increased by 17.2% between 2011 and 2016, significantly higher than the increase of 8.3% for Metro Vancouver.

According to the 2016 Census, Surrey represented 22% of Metro Vancouver’s total immigrant population, making it home to the second-largest immigrant population (220,155) in the Metro Vancouver region. Newcomers come for many different reasons. In BC, between 2011 and 2016, 10% of newcomers came via refugee status, 38.2% arrived under family class sponsorship and 51.2% fell under the Economic class.

The Surrey LIP has collected a number of Surrey-specific demographic resources which, we believe, will be useful for our stakeholders and community members alike.

2016 Census Surrey Profile

Data topics wth a focus on Surrey, BC, include: population and dwelling counts; age and sex; families, households and marital status; structural type of dwelling and collectives; and language.

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2016 Census Focus on Geography Series

Data topics wth a focus on Surrey, BC, include: population and dwelling counts; age and sex; families, households and marital status; structural type of dwelling and collectives; and language.

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City of Surrey Demographic Community Profile (Census 2016)

Data topics with a focus on Surrey, BC, include: Aboriginal population; age and gender; education; families; households, housing; immigration; income-employment; income-low; income-total; labour force; language; mobility.

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Immigrant Demographics by New to BC (2018)

Data topics include immigration trends; immigrants by period of immigration; immigrants and youth by period of immigration; age distribution: immigrants, recent immigrants, and Canadian-born; population age at immigration; top 10 places of birth – by total and recent immigrant population; share of population by religion – ranked by % of total immigrant population and many other topics.

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