| Strathcona | |
| Official Name: | Strathcona Regional District |
| Settlement Type: | Regional district |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Strathcona_BC_logo.png |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Map Alt: | A map of British Columbia depicting its 29 regional districts and equivalent municipalities. One is highlighted in red. |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | British Columbia |
| Seat Type: | Administrative office location |
| Seat: | Campbell River |
| Government Type: | Regional district |
| Governing Body: | Board of Directors |
| Leader Title: | Chair |
| Leader Name: | Michele Babchuk (Campbell River) |
| Leader Title1: | Vice Chair |
| Leader Name1: | Brad Unger (Gold River) |
| Leader Title2: | Electoral Areas |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Land Km2: | 18278.06 |
| Dimensions Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Total: | 44671 |
| Population Density Km2: | 2.44 |
The Strathcona Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the northern and western portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona. The partition left the new Strathcona Regional District with 91.6 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but only 42.1 percent of its population. Its current territory has a land area of 18,329.948 km2 (7,077.232 sq mi) and a 2016 census population of 44,671 inhabitants. There are 21 named Indian reserves within its territory, with a combined 2016 census population of 1,579 and combined land area of 16.444 km2 (6.345 sq mi).
The District's head offices are in Campbell River, British Columbia. During a transitional period, much of its administration was carried out by the Comox Valley Regional District, based in Courtenay, British Columbia but it is now self-administered. It is governed by a board of directors comprising representatives from each of the 5 municipalities and 4 electoral areas within its boundaries. It is anticipated that the board will expand to include representatives from some of the First Nations governments within its boundaries following treaty settlements.
Most of the Discovery Islands are within the Strathcona Regional District, while a few of the southernmost ones are in the Powell River Regional District.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Strathcona Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 18243.66km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
| 2021[3] | 2016[4] | 2011[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 38,790 | 36,095 | 36,455 | ||||
| Indigenous | 6,140 | 5,855 | 4,650 | ||||
| Southeast Asian | 760 | 685 | 630 | ||||
| East Asian | 580 | 460 | 240 | ||||
| South Asian | 540 | 275 | 150 | ||||
| African | 230 | 165 | 135 | ||||
| Latin American | 135 | 150 | 160 | ||||
| Middle Eastern | 15 | 50 | 15 | ||||
| Other | 85 | 80 | 65 | ||||
| Total responses | 47,280 | 43,810 | 42,520 | ||||
| Total population | 48,150 | 44,671 | 43,252 | ||||
| Municipality | Government Type | Population (2016) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell River | city | 32,588 | |
| Gold River | village | 1,212 | |
| Sayward | village | 311 | |
| Tahsis | village | 248 | |
| Zeballos | village | 107 |