Central Saanich
Central Saanich is a district municipality in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District. It is located on the Saanich Peninsula, in the far south-east of Vancouver Island. It is the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people. The district began as a farming community, and many hobby farms, along working farms and vineyards, still exist. In recent decades, the area has seen increasing residential, commercial, and industrial development, especially around the neighbourhoods of Brentwood Bay and Saanichton, which are occasionally referred to as separate communities. The area's best-known tourist attractions are the Butchart Gardens, located in the Brentwood Bay area, Gowlland Tod Provincial Park, and Island View Beach. The mayor of Central Saanich is former district councillor Ryan Windsor. Municipal councillors last elected in 2022 include Niall Paltiel, Sarah Riddell, Zeb King, Bob Thompson, Gord Newton, and Christopher Graham. Neighbourhoods of Central Saanich
 Brentwood Bay 
 Saanichton
 Island View
 Keating
 Tanner Ridge (also Saanich)

Potato ban
The production of potatoes from Central Saanich, east of the West Saanich Road, was banned in 1982 due to infestation by the golden nematode. Potatoes from this region of Central Saanich are banned from entry into the United States. Notable people
 Jamie Benn, ice hockey winger for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Silken Laumann, Canadian champion rower. Wife and husband Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, both award-winning Canadian poets. Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner, grew up in Saanich in the 1920s and went on to be one of the top Second World War Naval Aviators from Canada and UK., and one of the few Canadians who took part in the Battle of Britain. Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Central Saanich had a population of 17,385 living in 7,105 of its 7,621 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 16,814. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021. Ethnicity

Religion 
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Central Saanich included:
Irreligion (10,150 persons or 59.1%)
Christianity (6,365 persons or 37.1%)
Sikhism (270 persons or 1.6%)
Judaism (110 persons or 0.6%)
Buddhism (70 persons or 0.4%)
Islam (40 persons or 0.2%)
Hinduism (15 persons or 0.1%)
Other (150 persons or 0.9%)

See also

 Globodera rostochiensis#The golden nematode blight on the Saanich Peninsula

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Populated places on the British Columbia Coast
District municipalities in British Columbia
Populated places in the Capital Regional District
Greater Victoria
Saanich Peninsula
1950 establishments in British Columbia