{"id":7795,"date":"2026-01-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7496327"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:00:00","slug":"in-numbers-kelowna-salmon-arm-climbing-u-hauls-top-growing-cities-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7795\/in-numbers-kelowna-salmon-arm-climbing-u-hauls-top-growing-cities-list\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Kelowna, Salmon Arm climbing U-Haul\u2019s top growing cities list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U-Haul index might not be top of mind when it comes to tracking population growth, but the company tracks one-way rentals to see which cities are popular destinations for people moving to a new home. It\u2019s not a perfect nor an exact metric, but it gives a good idea of which cities are trending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U-Haul put Salmon Arm on the same list as Calgary, Kelowna and Montreal, so take this information with a grain of salt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2: <\/strong>Was B.C.\u2019s rank as a moving destination. Alberta was number one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>50.6:<\/strong> Per cent of one-way U-Haul rentals were arriving in BC rather than leaving. Alberta beat us by 0.2 per cent. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>10:<\/strong> Was Ontario&#8217;s rank for growth, which was dead last out of all the provinces, take that Ontario.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3:<\/strong> Was Manitoba&#8217;s rank for growth in 2025, up from 8 in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>7: <\/strong>Of the top 25 growth cities were in BC in 2025 including Victoria, Kelowna, Vancouver, Richmond, North Vancouver, Salmon Arm and Sidney.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>6: <\/strong>Was Kelowna\u2019s rank on U-Haul\u2019s top growth cities for 2025. It ranked higher than Vancouver, but lower than Victoria.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>23:<\/strong> Was Kelowna\u2019s rank on U-Haul\u2019s top growth Canadian cities for 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>16: <\/strong>Was Salmon Arm\u2019s rank on U-Haul\u2019s top growth cities for 2025. It wasn\u2019t even on the list in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>51.4: <\/strong>Per cent of Kelowna\u2019s one-way U-Haul rentals were coming into the city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>12:<\/strong> Per cent is the increase in arrivals to Kelowna in 2025 compared to 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>53.2:<\/strong> Per cent of Salmon Arm\u2019s one-way U-Haul rentals were coming into the city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>59: <\/strong>Per cent was the increase in arrivals in Salmon Arm in 2025 compared to 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a perfect nor an exact metric, but it gives a good idea of which cities are trending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1680,541,543],"tags":[],"region":[322,323,324,325],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"post_modified":"2026-01-10T14:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/inhome-moving-move-PEXELS.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}