The Data Explorer
Build your own chart and see what moves together.
Choose from 27 measures (staffing, housing, policing, taxes, budgets, debt, forestry and more). Add council terms, governing parties or major events. Every line keeps its own scale and links to its source.
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What it shows: Turnover fell from 11.2% in 2022 to 5.2% in 2025, the lowest rate since 2016 and the second-lowest published rate in the series.
What it does not show: The council bands show who was in office, not who caused the result. Labour markets, retirements, management, restructuring and workplace conditions can all move turnover.
How to read mixed units: The first indicator's unit claims the left axis and the second unit family claims the right; any further unit family is drawn scaled-to-fit with its true values in the tooltip and an “(scaled to fit)” tag in the legend. Blank years mean the series was not published, never zero.
- Comparable annual turnover rates were not found in the City's public reports before 2012. Earlier years remain blank, not zero.
- Before 2014, B.C. municipal terms were three years. Election years are assigned to the council in office for most of that calendar year.
- The October 2022 election is marked without treating all of 2022 as the work of the current Council.
- The City later restated the 2014 and 2015 figures to 7% and 6% respectively.
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