Nanaimo has failed to retain and to attract Millennials

This @StatCan_eng age pyramid graph compares Nanaimo and Victoria municipalities. Horizontal blue line set at 31 yr olds. Victoria is known as a retirement city but in the 20-40 Millennial demographic Victoria is a much younger city than Nanaimo. pic.twitter.com/XFpPIwoPWD

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) May 20, 2022

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City streets create value, build community. Urban highways do exactly the opposite.

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Between the 2016 and 2021 Census the percentage of one-person households increased a little city-wide and decreased a little downtown (Census Tract 9380015). Over 50% of downtown households are one-person households : 55.1% in 2016, 53.1% in 2021.

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