{"id":7851,"date":"2026-03-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7567934"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:41:26","slug":"in-numbers-fluctuating-construction-stats-in-kamloops-okanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7851\/in-numbers-fluctuating-construction-stats-in-kamloops-okanagan\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Fluctuating construction stats in Kamloops, Okanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistics on construction tend to fluctuate, so a dip in the numbers isn\u2019t necessarily a reason to hit the panic button. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A handful of big projects can dramatically sway the data like building permit values from month to month, so a wider view tends to paint a better picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the numbers on the construction industry in Kamloops, the Okanagan and BC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>271,600: People in B.C. worked in construction in January.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>373: Construction cranes are currently operating in B.C., down from a peak of 409 in 2024, but significantly higher than 261 in 2021. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>203: That\u2019s how many housing starts there were in Kelowna in January.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>26.6: Million dollars. That was the building permit value for Kelowna in January.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>32: Million dollars. That was the building permit value for Kelowna in January 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>21: Million dollars. That was Kamloops\u2019 building permit value for February this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2: Industrial permits in Kamloops account for $9 million in permit value for February.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>170,000: Dollars. That\u2019s the cost of construction for one swimming pool and hot tub that received a permit in Kamloops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4: Million dollars. That\u2019s the building permit value for Penticton in January, down from $13.9 million in January 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10: Million dollars in building permit value in Penticton for January 2025 came from two permits for a total of 48 units of multi-family housing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15.5: Million dollars. That\u2019s the building permit value for Vernon in January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few big projects can really change the numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":7852,"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-7851","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":"2026-03-10T15:41:26","post_modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:41:26","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/inhome-pexels-shkrabaanthony-5493663.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","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=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}