Areas
Neighbourhood guides for Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley: market, schools, commute and the property types on the ground.
Regional overviews
- Lower MainlandOne housing market on paper, and nothing in it behaves like one. Vancouver and the Fraser Valley run on separate clocks.
- Fraser ValleyThree real-estate boards split the Fraser Valley, so Chilliwack prices come off a different index than Langley: 41% lower on detached in March 2026.
- Surrey69 of 268 resale transactions since 2016 have been in Surrey. Six official town centres, and City Centre and Newton behave nothing alike.
- LangleyA 308 square kilometre Township wrapped around a 10 square kilometre City, with separate councils, plans and tax bases. Walnut Grove to Aldergrove.
Neighbourhoods + cities
Township of Langley
The rural-suburban patchwork east of Surrey, anchored on Fort Langley village and stretching from Walnut Grove down to Aldergrove.
Langley City
The compact 10 km² municipality at the heart of the Langleys: denser than the Township, with the SkyTrain extension reshaping its core.
South Surrey & White Rock
The southwest corner of the region: White Rock proper plus the South Surrey communities that share its school catchments and shoreline.
Surrey
The rest of the City of Surrey: City Centre, Guildford, Fleetwood, Newton, Cloverdale and Clayton, all on the Fraser Valley board.
Maple Ridge
Across the Golden Ears Bridge from Fort Langley: the cross-river half of the 15-minute-drive footprint.
Abbotsford
The largest city in the Fraser Valley, east of Langley along Highway 1.
City of Vancouver
The urban core: Westside neighbourhoods (Kerrisdale, Kitsilano) with intact pre-war character stock, dense rental fabric, and the Broadway Plan / R1-1 multiplex framework reshaping land-use math.
City of Burnaby
Burnaby's town centres: Metrotown anchors the south, with three Expo Line stations and the Metrotown Downtown Plan upzoning framework driving the high-rise residential buildout.
District of North Vancouver
The North Shore east of West Vancouver: preserved village commercial cores (Edgemont Village), watershed-edge inventory, and the Handsworth Secondary catchment anchoring family-buyer demand.
Tri-Cities (Coquitlam)
The Tri-Cities: Coquitlam Town Centre is the principal city centre, with three Evergreen-line SkyTrain stations, a West Coast Express stop, and the 42-hectare (about 100-acre) Town Centre Park civic, sports, and cultural bundle.
City of North Vancouver
The dense urban North Shore: Lower Lonsdale anchors the waterfront with the 1986 Quay marketplace, the heritage Shipyards District, and a 12-minute SeaBus sailing to Waterfront Station.
District of West Vancouver
The North Shore's highest household-income tier: Ambleside is the principal town centre, anchored by the West Van Secondary catchment, Ambleside Park's continuous seawall, and Park Royal at the eastern edge.
City of Richmond
Brighouse / Richmond City Centre is Richmond's town centre, with Canada Line stations at Brighouse, Lansdowne and Aberdeen.
City of Delta
The three Delta communities: Ladner (heritage village), Tsawwassen (BC Ferries terminus and Tsawwassen Mills), and North Delta (Burns Bog and Alex Fraser Bridge). Boundary Bay Regional Park anchors the southern amenity.
City of New Westminster
BC's central historic city: Sapperton anchors the Royal Columbian Hospital and Brewery District redevelopment with Sapperton and Braid SkyTrain stations on the Millennium Line.
City of Port Moody
Tri-Cities municipality on Burrard Inlet: Port Moody Centre anchors two Evergreen Extension SkyTrain stations, Rocky Point Park, and the Brewers Row craft-brewery cluster.
City of Pitt Meadows
Separate Metro Vancouver municipality between Maple Ridge and Coquitlam: predominantly Agricultural Land Reserve farmland with a residential and commercial core around Pitt Meadows Plaza and West Coast Express.
Other
Which cities are in the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley?
Neither name has a legal boundary. BC Geographical Names records the name Lower Mainland as unofficial. This site uses the common reading: the Lower Mainland is Metro Vancouver plus the Fraser Valley Regional District.
Metro Vancouver: 21 municipalities
Anmore, Belcarra, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley City, Township of Langley, Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver (city and district), Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, West Vancouver and White Rock. Also Electoral Area A and Tsawwassen First Nation.
Fraser Valley Regional District: 6 municipalities
Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Harrison Hot Springs, Hope, Kent and Mission, plus rural Electoral Areas A to H.
The Fraser Valley means different places to different bodies. The regional district is the list above. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, which runs the MLS in its area, lists North Delta, Surrey, White Rock, Langley, Abbotsford and Mission, so it takes in three Metro Vancouver cities and does not list Chilliwack, Hope, Kent or Harrison Hot Springs. Chilliwack has its own board, the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board.
Sources: BC Geographical Names, Metro Vancouver member jurisdictions, Fraser Valley Regional District board, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.
All areas, A to Z
- Aberdeen / Townline
- Abbotsford
- Albion (Maple Ridge)
- Aldergrove
- Ambleside
- Bear Creek
- Brentwood
- Brighouse / Richmond Centre
- Brookswood-Fernridge
- Burke Mountain
- Burquitlam
- Campbell Valley
- Caulfeild
- Central Lonsdale
- Champlain Heights
- Chilliwack
- Clayton
- Cloverdale
- Coquitlam Town Centre
- Cottonwood
- Dunbar-Southlands
- Edgemont Village
- Fleetwood
- Fort Langley
- Fraser Valley
- Glen Valley
- Grandview Heights
- Grandview-Woodland
- Guildford
- Hammond
- Hastings-Sunrise
- Kerrisdale
- Killarney
- Kitsilano
- Ladner
- Langley (Township + City)
- Langley City
- Latimer
- Lower Lonsdale
- Lower Mainland
- Lynn Valley
- Maple Ridge
- Marpole
- Metrotown
- Mission
- Morgan Creek
- Mount Pleasant
- Murrayville
- Newton
- North Delta
- Oakridge
- Otter
- Panorama Ridge
- Pitt Meadows
- Port Moody Centre
- Renfrew-Collingwood
- Riley Park
- Routley
- Salmon River
- Sapperton
- Silver Valley
- South Cambie
- South Surrey
- Steveston
- Strathcona
- Sullivan
- Sumas Mountain
- Sunset
- Surrey
- Surrey City Centre
- Tsawwassen
- Tynehead
- Walnut Grove
- West Abbotsford
- West Cambie
- West Point Grey
- Westwood Plateau
- White Rock
- Willoughby
- Yorkson
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