North Park is a diverse, mixed-income, mixed-use community adjacent to the City of Victoria’s downtown core. Read about our history. An area of about one square kilometre, our vibrant neighbourhood is bounded by Blanshard, Bay, Cook and Pandora streets, and is home to about 2,800 people and numerous vibrant businesses, services and recreational facilities. To learn about all the many economic, social and community assets in our neighbourhood, check out our new online community map. Learn more about the North Park neighbourhood here.
Here are some maps that help provide context on how North Park fits into the City of Victoria as a whole.
– Only about 29% would occur within a 5-minute walk of town centres and villages. This falls well short of the OCP target of 40%, especially when considering that between 2012 and 2019 these areas saw a cumulative total of just 21% of the city’s growth.
The City’s Official Community Plan identifies the neighbourhoods in the north end of Victoria as being most suitable for growth and the southern ones to be least suitable.
From 2011 to 2016, the concentrated and high density neighbourhoods of North Park, Downtown and Harris Green saw their resident population increase 15.5%
From 2011 to 2016, the concentrated and high density neighbourhoods of North Park (5%), Downtown (41%) and Harris Green (70%) saw their resident population increase an average of 38.6%
