The Changing Valley

Find all The Current's stories in The Changing Valley series here, from how the valley is growing to where the people are coming from.

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Fraser Valley Current staff
March 17, 2022

Find all of our stories in the Changing Valley Series below.

Thousands of people have moved to the Fraser Valley recently, Laura Scotten, Jason Nichools and their daughter Sedona are three of them.

The Changing Valley: How shifting demographics are upending old Fraser Valley stereotypes

Rapid growth is rendering old stereotypes about the Fraser Valley even less accurate. As the region changes, new possibilities, opportunities, and challenges are emerging.

An aerial view of the Fraser Valley with Mount Cheam in the background

The Fraser Valley’s widening housing price gap

Houses in Langley now cost an average of nearly $300,000 more than those in Abbotsford and more than $500,000 than those in Chilliwack. That gap has widened substantially in recent years as prices have increased across the region.Read the story here.

Tens of thousands of people have moved to the Fraser Valley from western parts of the Lower Mainland in recent years. • 📸 EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock

Exodus to the east: How Vancouver home prices have driven a surge of migration to the Fraser Valley

As house prices exploded, more than 26,000 people moved from Vancouver to Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and Mission over the course of just three years.

Babies contribute the most net migration to the Fraser Valley’s population. • 📸 Eliyahu Yosef Parypa/Shutterstock. 📈 Tyler Olsen

Babytown: The Fraser Valley is a magnet for infants

No single age group has contributed more new in-province migrants than kids under one.

Mapping the Fraser Valley’s baby boom

Across the Fraser Valley, babies are booming. But not every community is welcoming more newborns than it was a decade ago.

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