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City of Delta

North DeltaBritish Columbia

The northern Delta community — north of the Fraser River, predominantly detached + Burns Bog ALR fabric. Connected to Surrey + Burnaby via the Alex Fraser Bridge.

City of Delta6 property types3 sub-areas6 FAQsLast reviewed June 10, 2026
~11 km
Watershed Park trails

Delta's largest park — gravel trails plus a regional-quality mountain-bike network

+8.5%
Growth 2016 → 2021

Statistics Canada — more than double Ladner (3.7%) and Tsawwassen (3.5%)

~3,000 ha
Burns Bog

Largest raised peat bog on the West Coast of the Americas; 2,042 ha purchased as conservancy 2004

328
Cougar Creek coho 2023

Record wild-coho return to North Delta's best salmon stream — a community-restored urban run

The market in North Delta

Market snapshot · May 2026

North Delta · HPI Benchmark

Benchmark price

$1.10M

Month over month

+0.2%

Year over year

-6.2%

Sales (month)

1,995

Active listings

14,755

Months of inventory

8.3

Fraser Valley Real Estate Board / Greater Vancouver REALTORS composite Home Price Index (HPI) — the industry-standard measure of typical home value, adjusted for property mix. Soft supply (buyers’ territory).

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Source: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board · Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Composite (all property types). HPI benchmarks are aggregate measures — specific properties may transact above or below.

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Overview

North Delta is one of three communities inside the City of Delta (the others being Ladner + Tsawwassen) — north of the Fraser River, distinct from the south-of-the-river Ladner + Tsawwassen communities. The community is bounded roughly by the Fraser River (north + east), Highway 91 / 64 Avenue (south), and Burns Bog (west). Connected to Surrey + Burnaby via the Alex Fraser Bridge and to Richmond via the Highway 91 corridor.

Inventory is predominantly post-1970 detached on conventional 50–60 foot lots, with a meaningful share of 1970s–1990s detached + townhouse on the slope down to the Fraser River. Newer post-2010 detached + townhouse infill exists on the southern + eastern blocks. The City of Delta Official Community Plan governs zoning; most lots are RS (Delta single-family) with selective higher-density designations along Scott Road + the 72 Avenue corridor.

Burns Bog at the western edge is one of the largest raised peat bogs on the west coast of the Americas — the ~3,000-hectare Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area, internationally recognised as part of the Fraser River Delta Ramsar wetland of international significance. Most of the conservancy is closed to the public; the Delta Nature Reserve off Nordel Court (the Planet Ice parking lot) is the publicly accessible boardwalk section, operated by Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. Burns Bog is a structural amenity — fixed under conservancy protection, not a view corridor that can be lost.

For schools, North Delta is served by five SD #37 (Delta) secondaries for grades 8–12 — North Delta Secondary (11447 82 Avenue), Seaquam Secondary (Sunshine Hills), Sands Secondary, Delview Secondary (9111 116 Street), and Burnsview Secondary — with the specific school set by the catchment line for each address. Elementary feeders include Cougar Canyon Elementary, Sunshine Hills Elementary, Devon Gardens Elementary, and Heath Elementary depending on the specific address. SD #37 operates French Immersion as an application stream.

The Sungod Recreation Centre at 7815 112 Street is the day-to-day civic amenity — pool, fitness, gymnasium, community programmes. The Sunshine Hills + Scott Road commercial pockets cover the daily retail. The Scott Road corridor at the eastern boundary (Delta / Surrey municipal line) is the principal commercial spine — a substantial run of grocers, sweet shops, jewellers, and restaurants continuous with the adjacent Surrey-side Scott Road retail.

By transit, North Delta is not directly served by SkyTrain. The closest stations are Scott Road Station + Gateway Station + Surrey Central Station on the Expo Line (5–15 minute drive east via Scott Road or Highway 17). TransLink bus service connects to the SkyTrain via Scott Road + 72 Avenue routes. By car, downtown Vancouver is 35–55 minutes via Alex Fraser Bridge + Highway 91 / Highway 99; Surrey City Centre is 10–20 minutes east via Scott Road; Richmond is 15–25 minutes west via Highway 91.

Bill 44 SSMUH applies — Delta adopted compliant zoning bylaws ahead of the June 30, 2024 provincial deadline. Most RS lots are multiplex-eligible.

What you get living here

The things that don't show up in a listing — the standing rituals and quiet anchors that make North Delta feel like a place rather than a postal code.

The Scott Road seam

North Delta lives next to Surrey, not just beside it

North Delta's eastern edge is 120 Street (Scott Road), and that single line is both municipal border and cultural spine. Property on the west side pays Delta taxes, attends Delta schools, and uses V4C/V4E postal codes; the east side is Surrey. Lived reality is that residents shop, eat, and worship on both sides of the road interchangeably — the strip mall you grew up at might technically be in Surrey.

Wikipedia — North Delta · Worldpostalcode Delta FSAs

The Alex Fraser is the daily fact

North Delta is functionally a bridge community

To reach the rest of Metro Vancouver, almost everyone crosses the Alex Fraser. Single incidents close both directions of Highway 91 and snarl Surrey / Delta / White Rock commutes for hours. A seventh lane has been added and the Highway 91 / 72 Avenue interchange completed to try to ease the chokepoint.

North Delta Reporter · Wikipedia — Alex Fraser Bridge

Wilderness most suburbs don't have

Burns Bog gives North Delta the largest undeveloped urban landmass on the west coast of the Americas

The ~3,000-hectare ombrotrophic raised bog on North Delta's western flank is the largest of its kind on the west coast of the Americas — eight times bigger than Stanley Park — and home to 300+ plant / animal species and 175 bird species. In 2004 four levels of government jointly bought 2,042 hectares as a conservancy.

City of Delta · Burns Bog Conservation Society

The everyday wild

Watershed Park is the daily walk — and a quiet mountain-bike scene

Delta's largest park — ~11 km of gravel trails through second-growth Douglas-fir and western redcedar that grew back after early-1900s logging. It's a daily-walk park for Sunshine Hills and a regional-quality MTB network (Lower, Upper, Canyon, Water Tower, Gravity Bowl) with ladder bridges and drops drawing riders from across Metro.

City of Delta · Trailforks

BC's salmon industry started here

Annieville Cannery (June 1870) was the first salmon cannery in British Columbia

Established June 1870 on the Fraser River across from New Westminster, Annieville Cannery shipped 30,000 one-pound cans to England in its first season; operations ran into the 1940s. The Annieville sub-area still carries the name, and Trinity Lutheran Church (1909) holds the local archives.

Delta's Heritage · Historic Places Canada

328 wild coho returned in 2023

Cougar Creek proves urban salmon recovery is possible

A community-led streamkeeper group restored coho returns to a stream whose headwaters emerge from culverts around 122 Street and 75 Avenue in Surrey. The 2023 spawning season counted 328 wild coho through North Delta — a record for the creek — the payoff of forty years of volunteer stewardship in an unusually urban setting.

Cougar Creek Streamkeepers · North Delta Reporter

Inside North Delta

North Delta reads as one neighbourhood from a distance, but on the ground the housing fabric is layered. Each piece has its own rules, its own inventory, and its own buyer.

Schools

North Delta is served by five SD #37 (Delta) secondaries for grades 8–12 — North Delta Secondary (11447 82 Avenue), Seaquam Secondary (Sunshine Hills), Sands Secondary, Delview Secondary (9111 116 Street), and Burnsview Secondary — with the specific school set by the catchment line for each address.

Elementary feeders include Cougar Canyon Elementary, Sunshine Hills Elementary, Devon Gardens Elementary, and Heath Elementary depending on the specific address. SD #37 operates French Immersion as an application stream. Verify the live SD #37 catchment map.

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Daily life

The Sungod Recreation Centre at 7815 112 Street is the day-to-day civic amenity — pool, fitness, gymnasium, community programmes. The Sunshine Hills + Scott Road commercial pockets cover the daily retail. The Scott Road corridor at the eastern boundary anchors the daily-needs and specialty commercial fabric.

Burns Bog at the western edge — the Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area, one of the largest raised peat bogs on the west coast of the Americas. The Delta Nature Reserve off Nordel Court provides public bog-edge boardwalk access. The combination of detached residential + Burns Bog amenity + Scott Road commercial + Sungod Recreation Centre anchors North Delta's day-to-day fabric.

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Commute math

Not directly served by SkyTrain. Closest stations are Scott Road Station + Gateway Station + Surrey Central Station on the Expo Line (5–15 minute drive east via Scott Road or Highway 17). TransLink bus service connects to the SkyTrain via Scott Road + 72 Avenue routes.

By car, downtown Vancouver is 35–55 minutes via Alex Fraser Bridge + Highway 91 / Highway 99; Surrey City Centre is 10–20 minutes east via Scott Road; Richmond is 15–25 minutes west via Highway 91. The Alex Fraser Bridge is the principal North Delta–Richmond–Vancouver connection.

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Property types

  • Post-1970 detached on 50–60 foot lots
  • 1970s–1990s detached + townhouse (Fraser River slope)
  • Post-2010 detached + townhouse infill (southern + eastern blocks)
  • Bill 44 SSMUH multiplex sites (Delta 2024 implementation)
  • Scott Road commercial frontage (eastern boundary)
  • Park-adjacent inventory (Burns Bog + Delta Nature Reserve edge)

Compare North Delta to nearby

Ladner →

The southern Delta community — Ladner trades North Delta's Fraser River north-slope + Burns Bog fabric for the heritage village core + the surrounding ALR farmland + Boundary Bay Regional Park amenity. Different commute math (Massey Tunnel vs. Alex Fraser Bridge).

Lower Mainland (regional) →

The broader regional context — North Delta sits inside the City of Delta, north of the Fraser River. Pricing correlates with adjacent Surrey + the Scott Road commercial fabric more than with Vancouver Westside or Fraser Valley markets.

Frequently asked

A few of the questions that come up most often about North Delta.

What schools serve North Delta?
North Delta is served by five SD #37 (Delta) secondaries for grades 8–12 — North Delta Secondary (11447 82 Avenue), Seaquam Secondary (Sunshine Hills), Sands Secondary, Delview Secondary (9111 116 Street), and Burnsview Secondary — with the specific school set by the catchment line for each address. Elementary feeders include Cougar Canyon Elementary, Sunshine Hills Elementary, Devon Gardens Elementary, and Heath Elementary depending on the specific address. SD #37 operates French Immersion as an application stream. Verify the live SD #37 catchment map.
What's Burns Bog?
Burns Bog at the western edge of North Delta is one of the largest raised peat bogs on the west coast of the Americas — the ~3,000-hectare Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area, internationally recognised as part of the Fraser River Delta Ramsar wetland of international significance. Most of the conservancy is closed to the public; the Delta Nature Reserve off Nordel Court (the Planet Ice parking lot) is the publicly accessible boardwalk section, operated by Metro Vancouver Regional Parks.
What's the Scott Road commercial fabric?
The Scott Road corridor at the eastern boundary (Delta / Surrey municipal line) is the principal commercial spine — a substantial run of grocers, restaurants, fabric shops, and jewellers continuous with the adjacent Surrey-side Scott Road retail. Daily-needs and specialty retail concentrate along the corridor, with adjacent Surrey-side shopping a meaningful regional anchor.
How does the Alex Fraser Bridge commute work?
The Alex Fraser Bridge connects North Delta to Richmond + Vancouver via Highway 91. By car, downtown Vancouver is 35–55 minutes via Alex Fraser Bridge + Highway 91 / Highway 99; Richmond is 15–25 minutes west via Highway 91; Surrey City Centre is 10–20 minutes east via Scott Road. The Alex Fraser Bridge is the principal North Delta–Richmond connection.
How does Bill 44 SSMUH apply in North Delta?
Delta adopted Bill 44 SSMUH-compliant zoning bylaws ahead of the June 30, 2024 provincial deadline. The framework permits up to 4 units on most single-family lots (up to 6 near frequent transit) subject to lot dimensions and servicing. Most North Delta RS lots are multiplex-eligible. Verify the specific lot's frontage and servicing capacity.
What tax exposure should a North Delta buyer model?
BC Property Transfer Tax applies on every purchase: 1% to $200K, 2% to $2M, 3% to $3M, and 5% above $3M. For most North Delta detached purchases the second bracket dominates. The City of Delta is inside the Greater Vancouver Regional District — for non-Canadian buyers where the federal foreign buyer ban does not prohibit the transaction, the BC Foreign Buyer Tax applies. BC SVT applies. Federal UHT layers on for affected owners.

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