Jubilee is the Victoria neighbourhood around Royal Jubilee Hospital, between Oak Bay Avenue, Foul Bay Road, Bay Street and Shelbourne Street. It grew from nineteenth-century farms and estates, and the hospital, BC Cancer and the CNIB make it the city's medical district, so a large share of residents and renters work within a few blocks of home. Housing is mostly early-1900s character houses, with condominium buildings concentrated along Fort Street and Richmond Road where the City's plan encourages mixed-use growth; typical strata units run from about 700 to 1,200 square feet.
The Fort and Foul Bay plaza with its Save-On-Foods is the main shopping node, Oak Bay Village and the Oak Bay Avenue shops are a short walk south, and Fern Park and the volunteer-built Spirit Garden on the hospital grounds are the local green spaces. Camosun College, UVic and Willows Beach are all close. Fort Street is one of the region's priority frequent-transit corridors, linking Esquimalt, downtown, the hospital, Camosun and UVic, and Routes 3 and 10 run through to James Bay. The City plans urban villages at Richmond and Fort, Fort and Foul Bay and Stadacona, and the eventual daylighting of Bowker Creek through the hospital lands.
