| Columbia–Shuswap | |
| Official Name: | Columbia–Shuswap Regional District |
| Settlement Type: | Regional district |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Columbia-Shuswap_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 |
| Named For: | Columbia River, Shuswap Lake |
| Seat Type: | Administrative office location |
| Seat: | Salmon Arm |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Regional district |
| Governing Body: | Board of directors |
| Leader Title: | Chair |
| Leader Name: | Kevin Flynn (City of Salmon Arm) |
| Leader Title1: | Vice chair |
| Leader Name1: | Rhona Martin (E) |
| Leader Title2: | Electoral areas |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Land Km2: | 28929.19 |
| Dimensions Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 57021 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | PST |
| Timezone1 Location: | Electoral areas B–F / Glacier National Park |
| Utc Offset1: | −8 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | −7 |
| Timezone2: | MST |
| Timezone2 Location: | Electoral area A (excluding Glacier) |
| Utc Offset2: | −7 |
| Timezone2 Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset2 Dst: | −6 |
The Columbia–Shuswap Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Southern Interior region on the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Calgary, Alberta. The regional district borders the Province of Alberta across the Rocky Mountains.
Columbia–Shuswap regional district comprises the regions known as the Shuswap Country, which focuses around Shuswap Lake and lies to the north of the Okanagan region, and the northern part of the Columbia Country, namely the "Big Bend" of the valley of the Columbia River from the Town of Golden to the historic City of Revelstoke, British Columbia. (Revelstoke is sometimes referred to as being in the North Kootenay, Golden is usually thought of as being part of the East Kootenay sub-region, the Columbia Valley). The Canada 2021 Census population was 57,021, spread over a land area of 28,929 square km and a water area of over 2,000 square km. The regional district's offices are in Salmon Arm, near the southwest corner of the regional district.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, an increase of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 28885.82km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
| 2021[5] | 2016[6] | 2011[7] | 2006[8] | 2001[9] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 48,805 | 44,930 | 44,980 | 45,815 | 44,580 | ||||||
| Indigenous | 4,405 | 3,645 | 3,280 | 2,760 | 2,155 | ||||||
| East Asian | 705 | 640 | 580 | 315 | 400 | ||||||
| Southeast Asian | 605 | 315 | 155 | 100 | 85 | ||||||
| South Asian | 585 | 355 | 400 | 345 | 330 | ||||||
| African | 245 | 175 | 95 | 75 | 100 | ||||||
| Latin American | 200 | 65 | 50 | 55 | 105 | ||||||
| Middle Eastern | 160 | 35 | 0 | 20 | 30 | ||||||
| Other | 65 | 45 | 20 | 15 | 35 | ||||||
| Total responses | 55,770 | 50,195 | 49,570 | 49,505 | 47,825 | ||||||
| Total population | 57,021 | 51,366 | 50,512 | 50,141 | 48,219 | ||||||