Is Burquitlam Station in Coquitlam or Burnaby?

Burquitlam Station is in Coquitlam. The station sits at Foster Avenue + Clarke Road, just east of North Road — and North Road is the municipal boundary between Coquitlam (east side) and Burnaby (west side). One short walk west across North Road and you are in the City of Burnaby; the next station that direction (Lougheed Town Centre) is a Burnaby station. The municipal answer matters more than buyers expect: it determines which school district (Coquitlam SD 43 vs Burnaby SD 41), which mill rate, which zoning bylaw, and which Official Community Plan governs the home you are buying. Confirm the city for a specific listing using the City of Coquitlam GIS / Burnaby property lookup before assuming.

What fare zone is Burquitlam Station?

Burquitlam Station is in TransLink Zone 3 (Coquitlam). Lougheed Town Centre — one stop west, inside the City of Burnaby — is in Zone 2. The zone boundary runs between the two stations. For pay-as-you-go Compass tap-in fares this matters at peak hours; for monthly pass holders it matters significantly because a Zone 1+2 monthly pass does NOT cover Burquitlam, while a Zone 1+2+3 (or all-zone) pass does. A commuter buying at Burquitlam who currently holds a Zone 2 monthly pass should rebudget the upgrade. Confirm current fare structure and zone boundaries against the live TransLink fare page — TransLink revises pricing periodically.

What's the SD 43 vs SD 41 distinction at Burquitlam Station?

Because the Coquitlam–Burnaby municipal boundary runs through North Road (immediately west of Burquitlam Station), school district assignment changes block by block. Homes east of North Road (the Burquitlam side, the station's own walkshed) feed Coquitlam School District 43 — Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra. Homes west of North Road feed Burnaby School District 41. Two condo towers a five-minute walk apart can be in different school districts, with different catchment elementaries, different secondary catchments, and different application-program ecosystems. Buyers paying any school-related premium near Burquitlam should plug the exact street address into the relevant district's catchment lookup tool before underwriting.

When did Burquitlam Station open?

Burquitlam Station opened on December 2, 2016, as part of the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line. The Evergreen Extension added six stations from Lougheed Town Centre east through Burquitlam, Moody Centre, Inlet Centre, Coquitlam Central, and Lafarge Lake–Douglas, completing rapid-transit access from Vancouver into the Tri-Cities (Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam) for the first time. The corridor's residential property values and pre-construction tower pipelines are largely a post-2016 story.

Are Burquitlam pre-construction towers a good investor play?

Practitioner answer, not a recommendation: the Burquitlam-Lougheed corridor pencils for some investor profiles and not others, and the framing matters more than the headline. The City of Coquitlam's Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (adopted 2017) explicitly directs high-density redevelopment within the 800m walkshed around Burquitlam Station — that has driven a large pre-construction tower pipeline from Polygon, Beedie, Concert, and others, with deposit-structure assignments common at completion. Two structural tailwinds: (1) SFU Burnaby Mountain main campus sits ~5km north, and the 143 SFU bus from Burquitlam plus the proximity of Production Way–University make this corridor a genuine SFU student-rental sub-market; (2) the Bill 47 Provincial TOD legislation in BC (signed 2024) layers minimum density allowances on top of municipal plans within transit station radii. Two structural risks: (1) all pre-construction carries assignment-tax + GST + completion-rate-shock exposure; (2) the corridor's tower density is high enough that comparable-sale supply at completion is large. Run the numbers per project, not on the corridor average.

How long is the SkyTrain commute from Burquitlam to downtown Vancouver?

Burquitlam to Burrard Station (downtown core) on a typical weekday off-peak SkyTrain trip is roughly 35–40 minutes door-to-platform — riders head westbound on the Millennium Line to Commercial-Broadway, transfer across the platform to the Expo Line westbound, then ride to Burrard. Burquitlam to Commercial-Broadway alone is roughly 20–25 minutes. Service is every 4–6 minutes peak and every 6–8 minutes off-peak depending on time of day. Always verify against the live TransLink trip planner — service patterns are revised periodically.

What's the difference between Burquitlam and Lougheed Town Centre for a buyer?

One stop apart on the Millennium Line, but different cities. Burquitlam Station = Coquitlam: Coquitlam SD 43 schools, Coquitlam zoning + OCP, Coquitlam mill rate (typically lower than Burnaby's), Coquitlam recreation pass, Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan governs density. Lougheed Town Centre = Burnaby: Burnaby SD 41 schools, Burnaby zoning + OCP, Burnaby mill rate, the Lougheed Neighbourhood Town Centre redevelopment, Burnaby Hospital catchment. The two stations also sit in different fare zones (Burquitlam Zone 3, Lougheed Zone 2), so a transit-pass-holding commuter sees a different monthly cost. Pricing the SkyTrain access as if both stations are equivalent is the most common Burquitlam buyer mistake.

How does Bill 47 TOD legislation affect Burquitlam Station?

Bill 47 (the Transit-Oriented Areas legislation, BC 2023, effective in 2024) requires municipalities in the Lower Mainland to allow minimum densities and minimum heights within defined radii of designated rapid-transit stations. Burquitlam Station is on the Millennium Line and qualifies as a SkyTrain station for the legislation's purposes. The default tiers (subject to City of Coquitlam mapping) are 800m, 400m, and 200m walkshed bands with progressively higher minimum density allowances at the inner rings. The City of Coquitlam's Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (2017) already directed high-density redevelopment around the station, so the marginal change Bill 47 introduces in this specific walkshed is smaller than at less-dense SkyTrain stations elsewhere — but the overlay still applies, and any single-family parcel within 200m of Burquitlam now carries a different highest-and-best-use story than it did pre-2024. Confirm the municipal mapping and any parcel-specific overlays against the City of Coquitlam planning portal before underwriting redevelopment value.

SkyTrain station landing — Coquitlam

Burquitlam Station (Millennium Line / Evergreen) — Buyer Walkshed + TOD Guide

Last reviewed May 10, 2026 by Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR®Sources: TransLink, City of Coquitlam — Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (2017), Province of BC — Bill 47 Transit-Oriented Areas, Coquitlam School District 43CC BY 4.0How we verify

Burquitlam Station sits at Foster Avenue + Clarke Road in Coquitlam, just east of North Road — and North Road is the municipal boundary between Coquitlam and Burnaby. The SkyTrain station you walk to determines which city government you are in. Burquitlam Station is Coquitlam (Coquitlam School District 43, Coquitlam mill rate, Coquitlam zoning); Lougheed Town Centre, the next stop west, is Burnaby (SD 41, Burnaby mill rate, Burnaby zoning). One short walk across North Road moves a buyer between two completely different municipal frameworks. Companion to the Burquitlam-Lougheed corridor pillar and the Coquitlam Town Centre pillar.

The defendable opinion

Most buyers shopping the Lougheed-to-Coquitlam Millennium Line corridor underwrite SkyTrain access as a single number — “is it walkable to a station?” — and miss the municipal-boundary trap. Burquitlam and Lougheed Town Centre are one stop apart, but they sit in different cities, different school districts, different zoning frameworks, and different fare zones. The premium being paid for “Burquitlam-area” condos is not interchangeable with the premium being paid for “Lougheed-area” condos, even when the towers are visually similar. Name the station first; price the walkshed second.

Station at a glance

Location: Foster Avenue at Clarke Road, Coquitlam, BC (just east of North Road)
City: City of Coquitlam (east of North Road)
Line: Millennium Line (Evergreen Extension)
Opened: December 2, 2016
Fare zone: TransLink Zone 3 (Coquitlam)
School district: Coquitlam School District 43 (SD 43)
Adjacent west: Lougheed Town Centre (Burnaby — SD 41, Zone 2)
Adjacent east: Coquitlam Central
Governing TOD plan: Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (City of Coquitlam, 2017)
Province-wide overlay: Bill 47 Transit-Oriented Areas (BC, effective 2024)

The municipal-boundary trap — verify before you buy

The single non-obvious fact about Burquitlam Station is that North Road, immediately west of the station, is the City of Coquitlam / City of Burnaby municipal boundary. Buyers shopping condo and townhouse listings in the surrounding walkshed see towers on both sides of that boundary in a single afternoon and frequently confuse the two markets. Practical consequences:

School district — east of North Road feeds Coquitlam SD 43; west feeds Burnaby SD 41. Different catchment maps, different application programs, different secondary schools entirely.
Mill rate — Coquitlam and Burnaby set their own annual mill rates; the per-tower property-tax outcome differs between two visually similar towers a five-minute walk apart.
Zoning + OCP — the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (2017) governs Coquitlam-side densification; Burnaby’s Lougheed Neighbourhood Town Centre planning governs the west side. Two different city councils, two different OCPs.
Recreation, library, services — resident discounts at city facilities follow city of residence.
Fare zone — Burquitlam Station = Zone 3, Lougheed Town Centre = Zone 2 (one stop, two zones).

Confirm the city for any specific listing using the City of Coquitlam GIS map (or the City of Burnaby property search) before underwriting any of the above. The address pin tells you everything; the listing description does not.

Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (2017) — the TOD framework

The City of Coquitlam adopted the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan in 2017, after the Evergreen Extension opened. The plan directs high-density mixed-use redevelopment within the 800m walkshed of Burquitlam Station, with progressive density tiers stepping down as distance from the station increases; the corridor’s post-2017 tower pipeline (Polygon, Beedie, Concert, others) flowed directly out of this plan, with mid-rise and low-rise infill guided to the outer ring and tower forms concentrating near the station. Bill 47 (Transit-Oriented Areas, BC, effective 2024) overlays a province-wide minimum-density framework on top — designated rapid-transit station radii must allow provincial minimum heights and densities. Because the 2017 Coquitlam plan already directed high density at this site, the marginal change Bill 47 introduces here is smaller than at less-dense SkyTrain stations elsewhere — but the overlay still applies, and parcels within 200m and 400m of the station now carry a different highest-and-best-use ceiling than pre-2024. Confirm any parcel-specific overlays against the City of Coquitlam planning portal.

SFU Burnaby Mountain student-rental sub-market

Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain main campus sits roughly 5km north of Burquitlam Station, accessible via the 143 SFU bus that boards directly at Burquitlam (and via the 145 SFU shuttle from Production Way–University, two stops west). Frequent SkyTrain service plus two SFU bus routes plus a high concentration of new condo supply make the Burquitlam walkshed a genuine SFU student-rental sub-market — distinct from the on-mountain UniverCity neighbourhood and from older student-rental stock in lower Burnaby Heights. For investor underwriting this matters two ways: (1) student-cycle vacancy patterns (September move-ins, summer dips) compress effective annual yield versus a stabilized non-student tenant; (2) BC’s Residential Tenancy Act rent-cap rules apply identically — but turnover frequency is structurally higher in student-heavy buildings, so the rent-on-turnover premium compounds across years. Run student-tenant assumptions explicitly; don’t average them into a generic Tri-Cities yield.

Walkshed + Bill 47 TOD radii

Standard Lower Mainland TOD planning uses 400m (roughly 5-minute walk) and 800m (roughly 10-minute walk) walkshed measures; Bill 47 adds an inner 200m tier with the highest minimum density allowance. For Burquitlam, the 200m inner tier covers the immediate Foster Avenue + Clarke Road tower cluster; the 400m core reaches across Clarke Road and pulls in most major recent mid-to-high-rise condo developments; the 800m outer ring includes lower-density infill and townhouse pockets where Bill 47’s marginal minimum-density change has the most upside relative to the existing built form. The 800m radius technically crosses North Road into Burnaby — but Bill 47’s overlay applies to each municipality’s zoning separately, so the Burnaby-side framework is governed by Burnaby’s own Lougheed Town Centre planning instruments, not by Coquitlam’s plan. Verify per-parcel against the City of Coquitlam mapping before relying on any of these descriptions.

Adjacent stations — the stop-by-stop view

Lougheed Town Centre · next west
Interchange where the Evergreen Extension joins the older Millennium Line back toward Production Way–University and Commercial-Broadway. Sits inside the City of Burnaby (SD 41, Burnaby zoning, Burnaby mill rate) — one stop and one municipality away from Burquitlam.
Coquitlam Central · next east
Major bus loop + West Coast Express interchange in central Coquitlam. Coquitlam Town Centre TOD core sits between Coquitlam Central and Lafarge Lake–Douglas; covered separately in the Coquitlam Town Centre pillar.
Production Way–University · two stops west
SFU Burnaby Mountain bus connection (the 145 SFU shuttle terminates here). Burquitlam riders heading to SFU campus typically board the 143 SFU bus at Burquitlam Station directly rather than transferring at Production Way.
Lafarge Lake–Douglas · eastern terminus
Eastern terminus of the Millennium Line / Evergreen Extension at Coquitlam Town Centre. End-of-line walkshed pricing is covered in the Coquitlam Town Centre pillar.

Commute math — Burquitlam to downtown Vancouver

Burquitlam riders heading downtown take the Millennium Line westbound to Commercial-Broadway, transfer cross-platform to the Expo Line westbound, and continue to Burrard or Waterfront. Typical off-peak times: Burquitlam → Commercial-Broadway roughly 20–25 minutes; Burquitlam → Burrard roughly 35–40 minutes. Eastbound, Lafarge Lake–Douglas (Coquitlam Town Centre core) is three stops east. Service runs every 4–6 minutes peak and 6–8 minutes off-peak depending on segment. Always verify against the live TransLink trip planner — service patterns are revised periodically.

Fare zone — the monthly-pass math

Burquitlam Station sits in TransLink Zone 3; Lougheed Town Centre, one stop west, sits in Zone 2. The zone boundary runs between the two stations. For monthly-pass commuters this is a real dollars-per-month difference: a Zone 1+2 monthly pass does not cover Burquitlam, so a buyer relocating from a Zone 2 condo to a Burquitlam condo needs to rebudget the monthly transit cost. For pay-as-you-go Compass tap-in fares the zone difference applies at peak hours under TransLink’s current zone-fare structure (off-peak fares are sometimes flat across zones). Confirm the live fare table on the TransLink website — pricing is revised periodically.

Surrounding neighbourhood — parks, demographics, identity

The Burquitlam walkshed includes Stoney Creek Park (riparian green corridor running north of the station) and connects within a short drive to Mundy Park in central Coquitlam — one of the City of Coquitlam’s largest urban parks, with mature forest sections and lake loops. The corridor has long been home to significant Korean-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, and Iranian-Canadian resident communities; the North Road retail strip immediately west of the station, on the Burnaby side, is one of the densest Korean-Canadian commercial corridors in Metro Vancouver. That demographic depth compounds the SkyTrain premium for households for whom community identity, cultural retail, and school-program density are primary factors — not just transit access.

Frequently asked questions

Is Burquitlam Station in Coquitlam or Burnaby?
Burquitlam Station is in Coquitlam. The station sits at Foster Avenue + Clarke Road, just east of North Road — and North Road is the municipal boundary between Coquitlam (east side) and Burnaby (west side). One short walk west across North Road and you are in the City of Burnaby; the next station that direction (Lougheed Town Centre) is a Burnaby station. The municipal answer matters more than buyers expect: it determines which school district (Coquitlam SD 43 vs Burnaby SD 41), which mill rate, which zoning bylaw, and which Official Community Plan governs the home you are buying. Confirm the city for a specific listing using the City of Coquitlam GIS / Burnaby property lookup before assuming.
What fare zone is Burquitlam Station?
Burquitlam Station is in TransLink Zone 3 (Coquitlam). Lougheed Town Centre — one stop west, inside the City of Burnaby — is in Zone 2. The zone boundary runs between the two stations. For pay-as-you-go Compass tap-in fares this matters at peak hours; for monthly pass holders it matters significantly because a Zone 1+2 monthly pass does NOT cover Burquitlam, while a Zone 1+2+3 (or all-zone) pass does. A commuter buying at Burquitlam who currently holds a Zone 2 monthly pass should rebudget the upgrade. Confirm current fare structure and zone boundaries against the live TransLink fare page — TransLink revises pricing periodically.
What's the SD 43 vs SD 41 distinction at Burquitlam Station?
Because the Coquitlam–Burnaby municipal boundary runs through North Road (immediately west of Burquitlam Station), school district assignment changes block by block. Homes east of North Road (the Burquitlam side, the station's own walkshed) feed Coquitlam School District 43 — Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra. Homes west of North Road feed Burnaby School District 41. Two condo towers a five-minute walk apart can be in different school districts, with different catchment elementaries, different secondary catchments, and different application-program ecosystems. Buyers paying any school-related premium near Burquitlam should plug the exact street address into the relevant district's catchment lookup tool before underwriting.
When did Burquitlam Station open?
Burquitlam Station opened on December 2, 2016, as part of the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line. The Evergreen Extension added six stations from Lougheed Town Centre east through Burquitlam, Moody Centre, Inlet Centre, Coquitlam Central, and Lafarge Lake–Douglas, completing rapid-transit access from Vancouver into the Tri-Cities (Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam) for the first time. The corridor's residential property values and pre-construction tower pipelines are largely a post-2016 story.
Are Burquitlam pre-construction towers a good investor play?
Practitioner answer, not a recommendation: the Burquitlam-Lougheed corridor pencils for some investor profiles and not others, and the framing matters more than the headline. The City of Coquitlam's Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (adopted 2017) explicitly directs high-density redevelopment within the 800m walkshed around Burquitlam Station — that has driven a large pre-construction tower pipeline from Polygon, Beedie, Concert, and others, with deposit-structure assignments common at completion. Two structural tailwinds: (1) SFU Burnaby Mountain main campus sits ~5km north, and the 143 SFU bus from Burquitlam plus the proximity of Production Way–University make this corridor a genuine SFU student-rental sub-market; (2) the Bill 47 Provincial TOD legislation in BC (signed 2024) layers minimum density allowances on top of municipal plans within transit station radii. Two structural risks: (1) all pre-construction carries assignment-tax + GST + completion-rate-shock exposure; (2) the corridor's tower density is high enough that comparable-sale supply at completion is large. Run the numbers per project, not on the corridor average.
How long is the SkyTrain commute from Burquitlam to downtown Vancouver?
Burquitlam to Burrard Station (downtown core) on a typical weekday off-peak SkyTrain trip is roughly 35–40 minutes door-to-platform — riders head westbound on the Millennium Line to Commercial-Broadway, transfer across the platform to the Expo Line westbound, then ride to Burrard. Burquitlam to Commercial-Broadway alone is roughly 20–25 minutes. Service is every 4–6 minutes peak and every 6–8 minutes off-peak depending on time of day. Always verify against the live TransLink trip planner — service patterns are revised periodically.
What's the difference between Burquitlam and Lougheed Town Centre for a buyer?
One stop apart on the Millennium Line, but different cities. Burquitlam Station = Coquitlam: Coquitlam SD 43 schools, Coquitlam zoning + OCP, Coquitlam mill rate (typically lower than Burnaby's), Coquitlam recreation pass, Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan governs density. Lougheed Town Centre = Burnaby: Burnaby SD 41 schools, Burnaby zoning + OCP, Burnaby mill rate, the Lougheed Neighbourhood Town Centre redevelopment, Burnaby Hospital catchment. The two stations also sit in different fare zones (Burquitlam Zone 3, Lougheed Zone 2), so a transit-pass-holding commuter sees a different monthly cost. Pricing the SkyTrain access as if both stations are equivalent is the most common Burquitlam buyer mistake.
How does Bill 47 TOD legislation affect Burquitlam Station?
Bill 47 (the Transit-Oriented Areas legislation, BC 2023, effective in 2024) requires municipalities in the Lower Mainland to allow minimum densities and minimum heights within defined radii of designated rapid-transit stations. Burquitlam Station is on the Millennium Line and qualifies as a SkyTrain station for the legislation's purposes. The default tiers (subject to City of Coquitlam mapping) are 800m, 400m, and 200m walkshed bands with progressively higher minimum density allowances at the inner rings. The City of Coquitlam's Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan (2017) already directed high-density redevelopment around the station, so the marginal change Bill 47 introduces in this specific walkshed is smaller than at less-dense SkyTrain stations elsewhere — but the overlay still applies, and any single-family parcel within 200m of Burquitlam now carries a different highest-and-best-use story than it did pre-2024. Confirm the municipal mapping and any parcel-specific overlays against the City of Coquitlam planning portal before underwriting redevelopment value.