The population of Richmond is made up of 48.7% men and 51.3% women – a slightly more pronounced reflection of the higher proportion of women in England and Wales, England and London.

Crime in Richmond isn’t bad per se, but it is on the rise, at least according to the latest data available. In 2018, Maclean’s published a report ranking Canadian cities on crime. Out of 229 spots, with one being the highest and 229 being the lowest crime, Richmond came in at position 85.

According to Statistics Canada, people who self-identified as Black accounted for one per cent of B.C.’s population in 2016, in contrast to 3.5 per cent of Canada’s total population. And while the Black population in B.C. is growing, it’s doing so at a slower pace than other provinces.

Richmond boasts a great diversity of backgrounds: over 150 different ethnic origins with at least 25 residents were reported. The most commonly reported ethnic origin in Richmond is Chinese, with 107,080 people or 54 percent of the City’s population having this background.

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With a diversity score of 89 out of 100, Richmond is much more diverse than other US cities. The most diverse area within the Richmond metro area’s proper boundaries is to the southeast of the city.

The most commonly reported ethnic origin in Richmond is Chinese, with 107,080 people or 54 percent of the City’s population having this background.

Because of the high groundwater table, very few houses in Richmond have basements and until the late 1980s, very few buildings were above 3 storeys high. Also, because of proximity to the airport, current building codes limit the height of buildings to 150 feet (46 m).

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Toronto Demographics White: 50.2% East Asian: 12.7% (10.8% Chinese, 1.4% Korean, 0.5% Japanese) South Asian: 12.3% Black: 8.5%

As of the most recent estimates in 2017, the city has a population of 218,307. Richmond is one of the largest cities in British Columbia. One important thing to note about the city’s population is that 60% of the overall population is made up of immigrants. This is the highest percentage in the entire country.

The predominant minority group in Richmond is Chinese, at 53% of the total population (the highest proportion in Canada). The next most common minority groups are the South Asian group (for example East Indian, Pakistani), at 7.3% of the total, and Filipino at 6.9% of the total.

In the city of Vancouver and four adjacent municipalities ( Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, and Coquitlam ), there is no visible majority. Hence, the term visible minority is used here in contrast to the overall Canadian population which remains predominantly of European descent.

Surrey has the largest ethnic South Asian population in Metro Vancouver, at 32.4%. The Newton neighbourhood in Surrey contains the highest percentage of ethnic Indians in a neighbourhood in Metro Vancouver.