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V1V

British Columbia

In plain English

V1V had a population of 26,732 in the 2021 Census in Kelowna. Its population density makes it a suburban area.

There were 12,545 private dwellings across 60 km².

Median household income was 10% higher than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 11% higher than the national figure.

The median age was about the same as the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 21% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 14% lower than the national figure.

Average household size was about the same as the national figure.

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area V1V covering 60 km², in Kelowna, British Columbia. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

V1V · BC
Population, 2021

26,732

British Columbia · mostly Kelowna

Counts for V1V, 2021 Census. These describe this area and are deliberately not compared to a city or a country — a count of households is not comparable to a national total.
Private dwellings12,545
Owner households7,445
Renter households3,805
Immigrants3,945
Land area60 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for V1V, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureV1VKelownaBritish ColumbiaCanada
Median household income$92,000$85,000$85,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$81,000$75,500$76,000$73,000
Median age40.844.442.841.6
Unemployment rate8.1%8%8.4%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)9.6%9.5%10.8%11.1%
Average household size2.32.32.42.4

Getting around

2021 reference year · dissemination-block level
What this measures:

How close everyday amenities are — not how good they are. Each figure is the share of this area’s residents who have that amenity within the distance shown, weighted by where people actually live.

Residents with a grocery store within a 1 km walk

48%

23 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of V1V’s residents with each amenity within reach. The proximity index in the last column is scaled against all of Canada, where the national average is close to zero — read it against Canada, never on its own.
AmenityWithinV1VCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk48%70%23 points lower than Canada37% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.1 km walk80%66%14 points higher than Canada71% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.1 km walk84%80%4 points higher than Canada32% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk25%45%20 points lower than Canada64% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk71%86%15 points lower than Canada72% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk30%71%41 points lower than Canada82% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk24%60%35 points lower than Canada85% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk0%28%28 points lower than Canada98% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive100%92%8 points higher than Canada80% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive100%98%about the same as Canada69% below it

0% of V1V’s residents live in a block Statistics Canada classifies as an amenity-dense neighbourhood — one with a grocery store, pharmacy, health care, child care, a primary school, a library, a transit stop and a source of employment all in range. Nationally it is 16%. This is StatCan’s composite, not ours.

Source: Statistics Canada, Proximity Measures Database (17-26-0002), 2021 reference year. Data current as of 2026-08-12. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Measured at the dissemination block and aggregated to this postal area, weighted by population.

Rent

metropolitan-area level
Average asking rent across Kelowna, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
UnitBeing asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom$1,880
Apartment, 2 bedrooms$2,320
Apartment, 3 or more bedroomsnot published
Apartment, No bedroomnot published
House, 2 bedroomsnot published
House, 3 or more bedrooms$3,220
Room$890
Coverage:

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. V1V is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Kelowna area.

Source: Statistics Canada, table 46-10-0092 (asking rents, experimental). Data current as of January 2026. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Experimental estimates drawn from online listings, published for selected metropolitan areas only.

Air quality

live · nearest station
Air Quality Health Index at Central Okanagan

3

Low risk · 8:00 AM PDT Thursday 13 August 2026

The Air Quality Health Index combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale. It is a reading at a station, not a measurement of any address.
StationCentral Okanagan
Distance from V1V5.5 km
Reading3Low risk
Highest forecast5

Measured at Central Okanagan, 5.5 km from V1V. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Health Index. Data current as of 8:00 AM PDT Thursday 13 August 2026. Open Government Licence – Canada. This is the only live figure on this page; everything else is annual or from the census.

Reporting facilities nearby

2024 · within 10 km
What this is:

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of V1V. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

Reported releases to air, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Glenmore LandfillKelowna · Waste Treatment and Disposalinside this area482 t
Cintas KelownaKelowna · Other (Except Manufacturing)0.5 km21 t
WestsideWest Kelowna · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals8.6 km10.95 t
AirportKelowna · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Mineralsinside this area10.70 t
DowntownKELOWNA · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals1.5 km10.41 t
Westbank Ready MixWest Kelowna · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals9.7 km30.32 t
GFL Environmental Services Inc. (Kelowna - McCarthy)Kelowna · Waste Treatment and Disposal2.0 km60.10 t
KELOWNA ELECTROPLATING - KELOWNAKelowna · Other Manufacturing8.4 km10.00 t
Kelowna Plating ShopKelowna · Other (Except Manufacturing)0.3 km20.00 t
Kelowna AirportKelowna · Other (Except Manufacturing)0.3 km10 t
Strategic Aviation Services - Kelowna AirportKelowna · Other (Except Manufacturing)0.5 km10 t
Wastewater Treatment FacilityKelowna · Water and Wastewater Systems3.1 km30 t

Together these facilities reported 86 t released to air in 2024. That is what was reported within 10 km — not what reached this area, which depends on stack height, wind and chemistry that this inventory does not model.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Pollutant Release Inventory. Data current as of 2024 reporting year. Open Government Licence – Canada.

Crime

2025 · metropolitan-area figures
Read this first:

These figures describe the whole of Kelowna, British Columbia — a metropolitan area — not V1V. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

103.7

Kelowna, British Columbia · 38% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Kelowna, British Columbia, 2025. The Crime Severity Index weights each offence by how serious the courts treat it, so it is an index and not a count — 100 is Canada in 2006.
MeasureKelowna, British ColumbiaCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index103.775.038% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index101.997.25% higher than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index105.366.858% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate24.6%36.6%12.1 percentage points lower than Canada
Reported incidents per 100,000 residents, 2025. These count incidents without weighting them by seriousness, so they are not comparable with the indexes above.
ViolationsKelowna, British ColumbiaCanadaCompared
All violations9,486 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00056% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic8,688 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00056% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,872 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00030% higher than Canada
Property crime4,749 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00051% higher than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Kelowna, British Columbia (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was higher than in 2011 — 103.7 against 98.3. A change in the index can come from a change in the number of offences, in how serious they were, or in how many were reported to police.
Year-by-year figures
Crime Severity Index by year. This table is the chart above, in full.
YearKelowna, British ColumbiaCanada
201198.377.6
2012104.675.5
201387.668.9
201488.666.9
201598.670.4
201698.572.0
201795.073.6
2018100.475.6
2019120.279.7
2020114.173.9
2021121.374.9
2022126.078.7
2023119.681.3
2024107.578.8
2025103.775.0

Source: Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026 (crime severity index); table 35-10-0177 (incident-based crime statistics). Data current as of 2025 reference year. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Police-reported crime only — offences that are not reported to police are not counted anywhere in these figures.

Common questions

Do these figures describe a specific address in V1V?
No. V1V is a forward sortation area — the first three characters of a postal code — and every figure here describes the whole of it. That is the finest granularity Canadian open data supports; a full six-character postal code requires a licensed Canada Post file. Conditions on one street can differ from the area average.
Why is the crime figure for Kelowna, British Columbia rather than for V1V?
Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada. Statistics Canada publishes it by police service, aggregated to metropolitan areas and provinces, which for V1V means Kelowna, British Columbia. There is no municipal feed covering this area, so the regional figure is the finest available.
How current is this profile?
The census figures are from the 2021 Census. The other panels carry their own dates, shown beside each one, because they are published on different schedules — crime annually, CMHC rents each October, asking rents quarterly, and the air quality index live. Each figure is labelled with the vintage it came from rather than the date you are reading it.
Does this page rank or score V1V?
No. There is no score, no grade, no star rating and no ranking against other areas. Every figure is a measurement with a source, a date and a stated granularity, and none of them are combined. The site describes places using published statistics; it does not draw conclusions about the people who live in them.

What this page will not do

Note:

No score, no ranking, no grade. This page will not score this neighbourhood, rank it against another, or present the people who live here as a feature of the place. Every figure above is a measurement with a source, a date and a stated granularity, and none of them are added together.

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Source: Census Profile, 2021 Census (98-401-X). Data current as of 2026-08-12. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Figures describe the whole forward sortation area, not a street.