Richmond, British Columbia

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The coastal city of Richmond is near sea level ^<1>.

Time Zone: Richmond lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Richmond can be found in:

	Alabama	New York
	Arizona (historic ^<2>)	Nova Scotia
	Arkansas	Ohio
	California	Oklahoma
	Florida	Ontario
	Illinois	Oregon (historic)
	Indiana	Pennsylvania
	Iowa	Prince Edward Island
	Kansas	Quebec
	Kentucky	Rhode Island (historic)
	Louisiana	South Carolina
	Maine	South Dakota
	Massachusetts	Tennessee
	Michigan	Texas
	Minnesota	Utah
	Mississippi	Vermont
	Missouri (historic)	Virginia
	New Hampshire	Wisconsin
	New Mexico (historic)

At the time of the 2006 StatCan Census, Richmond had a population of 174,461 people ^<3>. This is an increase of 6.16% since the previous Census (with 164,345 people in 2001).

With 174,461 people, Richmond represented 4.24% of the total population of British Columbia.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<4>	2006 Population	Change Since 2001
Burnaby	N	5 mi [8.05 km]	202,799	4.56% increase
Coquitlam	NE	10 mi [16.09 km]	114,565	1.48% increase
Delta	S	4 mi [6.44 km]	96,723	0.23% decrease
Langley	E	15 mi [24.14 km]	23,606	0.16% decrease
New Westminister	NE	4 mi [6.44 km]	58,549	7.12% increase
North Vancouver	NW	11 mi [17.7 km]	45,165	2.43% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Richmond.

Websites for Richmond

Official Website:	www.richmond.ca/

Chamber of Commerce:	www.richmondchamber.ca/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for Richmond, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Richmond. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Richmond? Please visit the Map Page for Richmond.

Footnotes

<1>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Richmond - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<2>	We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Richmond, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<3>	Unless noted otherwise, the population counts we use are estimates. Our population values come different sources and should not be considered official. - Return to Citation
<4>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Richmond and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation

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Last Modified: 06 Nov 2009