Dunbar-Southlands
Local area in Vancouver
Side: West Side
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About West Side
West of Ontario Street, from Kitsilano and Point Grey down to Marpole.
Names you’ll hear here
- Southlands
What stands out
- Highest rents in Vancouver (median $1,980/mo)
- Highest share of homeowners in Vancouver (27% rent)
- Among the most detached houses in Vancouver (65% of homes)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $3.2M · renters pay $1,980/mo2021 Census figures, not current prices; home values and rents are averages of small-area medians. Rent is what renting households paid, utilities included, counting long-time tenants, subsidized homes and basement suites, so it sits below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare local areas, not to budget.
- To Waterfront
- 45–60 min. About 48 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 70% drive · 13% transit · 11% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 27% rent
- Tree canopy
- 45% or more. 67% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 65% · Low-rise 34% · Towers 1%
- Built
- 1960 or before 43% · 1961–80 11% · 1981–2000 18% · 2001–21 25%
- Ages
- Under 15 14% · 15–24 18% · 25–44 19% · 45–64 30% · 65+ 19%
- Language at home
- English 72% · Mandarin 15%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 4% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 5% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census (Statistics Canada), Dunbar-Southlands. Tiers compare Vancouver's 22 local areas; the University Endowment Lands are placed against them.