Ibex Valley is a hamlet in Canada's Yukon. The hamlet is considered a local advisory area with an advisory council providing local government.[1] Its population in 2021 according to the 2021 Canadian Census was 523.[2]
Ibex Valley comprises residential areas along the Alaska Highway immediately outside the Whitehorse city limits as far as approximately historical mile 945, as well as a small number of sideroads, including a five-mile loop of the original Alaska Highway alignment from Mile 929 to 934. The hamlet is part of the Whitehorse Census Agglomeration.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ibex Valley had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 207.13km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
Seventy percent of Ibex Valley's population is non-aboriginal.
| 2021[3] | 2016[4] | 2006[5] | 2001[6] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 465 | 310 | 275 | 220 | |||||||
| Indigenous | 185 | 115 | 95 | 90 | |||||||
| African | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
| East Asian | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| South Asian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Southeast Asian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Middle Eastern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Latin American | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Other/multiracial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| Total responses | 650 | 430 | 375 | 315 | |||||||
| Total population | 523 | 411 | 376 | 315 | |||||||
While most residents work in Whitehorse, some residents are engaged in agriculture or wilderness tourism activities.
Ibex Valley has a volunteer fire department.