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Surrey Demographics

S​urrey 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. In B.C. the number of new immigrants almost doubled between 2016 and 2021, from 38,085 in 2016, to 69,470 in 2021. In 2021, 17% of all new permanent residents to Canada chose B.C. as their destination, up from 13% in 2016. This trend is expected to continue, meaning that B.C. can expect to welcome an increasing number of immigrants each year.

Surrey attracts an increasing portion of immigrants to British Columbia’s southwest coast. In 2021 immigrants made up 45% of Surrey’s population, slightly higher than Metro Vancouver’s regional level of 42%. Surrey is growing at an unprecedented rate, adding more than 51,000 people since 2016. Expressed another way, over the last five years, Surrey welcomed 28 new residents every day. At the current rate the City is on track to become the province’s largest city around the year 2040, surpassing Vancouver in population.

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.

Surrey LIP Demographics and Factsheets 2023

Topics include:Updated new demographics data in Surrey 2023.

Fact Sheets

Surrey LIP Fact Sheets

Topics include: Who are Surrey Immigrants and Surrey newcomer services at a glance.

Fact Sheets

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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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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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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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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40

of immigrants living in Metro Vancouver resided in Surrey

45

of Surrey’s population was comprised of immigrants

25

of Surrey’s immigrant population were refugees

(Source: Census 2016)

Top three languages spoken at home by Surrey immigrants

23

Punjabi

4.9

Mandarin

3.3

Tagalog

(2011 – 2016)