population in kootenay bc
Over three percent of B.C.âs population lives in Kootenay. According to the last census, the population was 146,264. Kootenay had the highest median age of all the economic regions (46.9 years). Unemployment in this region has consistently been higher than in the province as a whole; in 2015 the regionâs unemployment rate of 7.4 percent was higher than the provincial rate.