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Neighbourhood guides for Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley: market, schools, commute and the property types on the ground.

Regional overviews

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.

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.

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Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR® at Momentum Realty Inc.. GVR Member #6015742 · FVREB Member #FJOBBR