BC Check-Up Work
The 2025 BC Check-Up: Work report focuses on labour-market trends across the province and in each of the province’s seven economic development regions. The report finds that BC residents faced a challenging job market as trade tensions with the United States emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing the economy. The unemployment rate increased 0.4 percentage points year-over-year to 6.4% in September 2025, and the employment and job vacancy rates neared decade lows, excluding the 2020 pandemic downturn.
BC Check-Up Live
The 2025 BC Check-Up: Live report focuses on affordability and demographic trends against the backdrop of global trade uncertainty. The report finds that BC added nearly 167,000 residents between July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024, coming entirely from international migration. Housing market trends diverged through the first half of 2025, as prices moderated and sales slumped in the Lower Mainland, but most other markets have shown resilience. Meanwhile, results from CPABC’s member survey in April 2025 showed that 28% of respondents were seriously considering leaving British Columbia because of poor housing affordability.
BC Check-Up Invest
The 2025 BC Check-Up: Invest report highlights investment trends across BC and in each of the province’s seven economic development regions. BC faces a challenging business climate after the United States imposed or threatened to impose tariffs on most Canadian goods. The report finds that 2024 was a transitional year for the BC economy, as moderating inflation allowed the Bank of Canada to lower interest rates and engage in less restrictive monetary policy. Still, the province enters this trade war after experiencing a down year; real GDP per capita fell in 2024 and global trade uncertainty threatens a rebound in 2025.
