Quality of life in Victoria
Victoria, Canada, is characterized by a clean environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in business freedom, safety and healthcare.
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Victoria, Canada, is characterized by a clean environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in business freedom, safety and healthcare.
Large apartment | $1700.00 |
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Medium apartment | $1300.00 |
Rent index [score] | 0.55 |
Small apartment | $920.00 |
5km taxi ride | $8.80 |
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A Cappuccino | $3.50 |
A beer | $2.60 |
A kilogram of Apples | $3.00 |
Bread | $1.20 |
Inflation [score] | 0.57 |
Lunch | $14.00 |
Monthly fitness club membership | $40.00 |
Monthly public transport | $72.00 |
Movie ticket | $9.20 |
Price of a meal at a restaurant | $62.06 |
Average monthly increase in number of startups | 3 |
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Average monthly increase in number of startups [score] | 0.32 |
Coworking spaces [score] | 0.74 |
Coworking spaces on WorkFrom.co | 14 |
Meetups [score] | 0.23 |
Meetups groups | 52 |
Meetups members | 12463 |
Number of investors | 22 |
Number of startup events in the last 12 months | 108 |
Number of upcoming meetup events | 16 |
Startup climate scene [score] | 0.46 |
Startup events | 22 |
Startup events [score] | 0.44 |
Startups [score] | 0.57 |
Total number of startups | 126 |
Venture capital [score] | 0.27 |
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Airport hub | 24 |
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Airport hub [score] | 0.18 |
Intercity train connectivity [score] | 0.12 |
Traffic handling [score] | 0.77 |
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Business freedom | 81.80 |
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Business freedom [score] | 0.80 |
Freedom from corruption | 81.00 |
Freedom from corruption [score] | 0.89 |
Lack of labor restrictions | 72.60 |
Lack of labor restrictions [score] | 0.67 |
Time to open a business | 1.50 |
Time to open a business [score] | 1.00 |
Crime rate [score] | 0.73 |
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Gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents per year | 2 |
Guns per 100 residents | 31 |
Lack of gun related deaths [score] | 0.95 |
Lack of guns [score] | 0.83 |
Lack of guns and gun-related deaths [score] | 0.89 |
Healthcare expenditure [score] | 0.91 |
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Healthcare quality [score] | 0.72 |
Life expectancy (years) | 82.17 |
Life expectancy [score] | 0.93 |
Best university in ranking | University of Victoria |
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Best university ranking | 325 |
Country mean scores in PISA math test | 515.43 |
Country mean scores in PISA reading test | 523.12 |
Country mean scores in PISA science test | 525.44 |
PISA math ranking (high school) | 9 |
PISA ranking | 5 |
PISA ranking (high school) [score] | 0.97 |
PISA reading (high school) | 2 |
PISA science (high school) | 6 |
Percent of happy students | 0.79 |
Percent of low performers in PISA math test | 0.14 |
Percent of low performers in PISA reading test | 0.11 |
Percent of low performers in PISA science test | 0.10 |
Percent of top performers in PISA math test | 0.16 |
Percent of top performers in PISA reading test | 0.13 |
Percent of top performers in PISA science test | 0.11 |
University quality [score] | 0.11 |
Air quality [score] | 0.92 |
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Cleanliness [score] | 0.99 |
Drinking water quality [score] | 0.89 |
Urban greenery [score] | 0.92 |
Currency exchange rate per US dollar for urban area | 1.27 |
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Currency for urban area | CAD |
GDP growth rate | 0.03 |
GDP growth rate [score] | 0.45 |
GDP per capita | $44843.44 |
GDP per capita [score] | 0.72 |
Effective company profit tax rate on payouts as dividends [score] | 0.96 |
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Income tax level [score] | 0.50 |
Profit tax (% of profit) | 0.21 |
Time overhead to file company taxes | 131 |
VAT (Sales Tax) | 0.05 |
Download speed (Mbps) | 70.20 |
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Internet access (download) [score] | 0.74 |
Internet access (upload) [score] | 0.50 |
Upload speed (Mbps) | 12.04 |
Art galleries | 62 |
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Art galleries [score] | 0.34 |
Cinemas | 14 |
Cinemas [score] | 0.33 |
Comedy clubs | 5 |
Comedy clubs [score] | 0.36 |
Concert venues | 43 |
Concerts [score] | 0.51 |
Historical sites | 25 |
Historical sites [score] | 0.50 |
Museums | 9 |
Museums [score] | 0.41 |
Performing art venues | 59 |
Performing arts [score] | 0.37 |
Sport venues | 6 |
Sports [score] | 0.44 |
Zoos | 2 |
Zoos [score] | 0.59 |
Homosexuality acceptance (percent of the surveyed population in favor) | 0.80 |
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LGBT Equality Index | 82.02 |
LGBT Equality Index [score] | 0.84 |
LGBT adoption rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT age of consent | ✖ Unequal |
LGBT blood donation regulations | ✖ Banned (5-year deferral) |
LGBT conversion therapy regulations | Varies by Region |
LGBT discrimination legality | Illegal in some contexts |
LGBT employment discrimination legality | Sexual orientation only |
LGBT gender changing rights | Varies by Region |
LGBT homosexuality rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT housing discrimination legality | Varies by Region |
LGBT marriage rights | ✔ Legal |
Tolerance towards minorities [score] | 0.92 |
Elevation (hills or mountains) [score] | 0.16 |
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Median peak in meters | 266.00 |
Presence of hills in city | 1.00 |
Presence of mountains in city | 1.00 |
Seaside access | 1.00 |
Urban area elevation (meters) | 10.00 |
Water access [score] | 0.71 |
Costs of living in Victoria are in the 130th place of all 248 Teleport cities. Sign up for free to get access to our cost of living index and use our international cost of living calculator to do cost comparison by city.
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Software Engineer salaries in Victoria are above average. For this job type, Victoria ranks 85th for salaries among 265 cities. Get access to our salary comparison calculator by signing up. Compare salaries city by city with our free salary wizard and convert your own salary to a local salary in Victoria.
The overall crime rate puts Victoria in position 78 of 266 Teleport Cities in a ranking for the safest cities.
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Victoria , the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 85,792, while the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria has a population of 383,360, making it the 15th most populous Canadian metropolitan area. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with 4,405.8 people per square kilometre, which is a greater population density than Toronto, Ontario.
Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada, and is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about 100 km (60 mi) from Seattle by airplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry which operates daily, year round between Seattle and Victoria, and 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry Coho across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and, at the time, British North America, Victoria is one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, Legislative buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and the Empress hotel (opened in 1908). The city's Chinatown is the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. The region's Coast Salish First Nations peoples established communities in the area long before non-native settlement, possibly several thousand years earlier, which had large populations at the time of European exploration.
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