Fraser Valley
Regional district
Fraser Valley Regional District
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Location in British Columbia
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Seat	Chilliwack
Government [1]
• Type	Regional district
• Body	Board of directors
• Chair	Jason Lum (Chilliwack)
• Vice chair	Patricia Ross (Abbotsford)
• Electoral areas	A - Boston Bar–North Bend–Canyon Alpine B - Yale/Choate/Dogwood Valley/Emory Creek/Laidlaw/Othello/Ruby Creek/Spuzzum/Sunshine Valley C - Sasquatch Country D - Popkum–Bridal Falls E - Chilliwack River Valley F - McConnell Creek-Hatzic Prairie G - Nicomen Island–Deroche–Dewdney–Hatzic Island H - Cultus Lake–Columbia Valley–Lindell Beach
Area
• Land	13,335.28 km2 (5,148.78 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	295,934
• Density	22.2/km2 (57/sq mi)
Website	www.fvrd.ca

The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. Its headquarters are in the city of Chilliwack. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km² (5,159 sq mi). It was created in 1995 ^[3] by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards.

The FVRD is the third most populous Regional District in British Columbia,^[3] incorporating roughly the eastern half of the Lower Mainland of southwestern BC, and is bordered by Whatcom County, Washington to the south, Metro Vancouver to the west, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the northwest, and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District to the northeast.

It also includes unincorporated areas north of the City of Pitt Meadows, which were part of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District but which were not transferred to the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD) when it expanded to include Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge.

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Fraser Valley Regional District had a population of 324,005 living in 118,217 of its 124,988 total private dwellings, a change of 9.5% from its 2016 population of 295,934. With a land area of 13,319.34 km² (5,142.63 sq mi), it had a population density of 24.3/km² (63.0/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

Population by census subdivision

Ethnicity

• Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Language

According to the 2011 Census, 76.47% of Fraser Valley's population have English as mother tongue; Punjabi is the mother tongue of 10.02% of the population, followed by German (3.49%), Dutch (1.39%), French (1.07%), Korean (0.69%), Spanish (0.66%), Tagalog (0.35%), Chinese, n.o.s. (0.33%), and Vietnamese (0.30%).^[10]