More vehicles were being driven on the road in Greater Victoria in 2022 than in 2017, according to data from the Capital Regional District.
In 2017, there were 255,300 households with a vehicle and in 2022 there were 279,800 – an overall increase of 9.59 per cent.
In comparison, the population in the area only increased by 8.71 per cent, with an increase of 14,390 more households in 2022.
The population went up from 363,000 residents to 394,000.
There has been an increase in the number of single-vehicle households and those who have two or more.
The two worst offending areas in Greater Victoria were the West Shore and Saanich Peninsula, while Victoria had the fewest number of vehicles.
Electric vehicles make up about four per cent of vehicles in the region and continue to trend upward with more driving on the road.
According to the data from the CRD, there has also been a considerable increase in the amount of people who don’t own a vehicle, with 18,891 households not owning a car.
There has also been a shift in the number of trips people use their cars for, dropping by 10 per cent between 2017 and 2022.
The number of people carpooling or sharing a car dropped in 2022, with 1.35 people in a car. In 2018, it was 1.37.
Driving was the most popular mode of transport, with walking being the second, cycling third and the least used was transit with just 6.5 per cent using public transport.
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