Grandview-Woodland
Local area in Vancouver
Side: East Side
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About East Side
East of Ontario Street, from Strathcona and Grandview out to Renfrew-Collingwood and Killarney.
Names you’ll hear here
- Commercial Drive
What stands out
- Among the most affordable rents in Vancouver (median $1,260/mo)
- Among the highest shares of renters in Vancouver (64% rent)
- Among the most affordable homes on the East Side (median $1.2M)
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $1.2M · renters pay $1,260/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
- Under 30 min. About 28 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 54% drive · 21% transit · 23% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 64% rent
- Tree canopy
- 20–28%. 27% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 9% · Semi & row 6% · Low-rise 80% · Towers 5%
- Built
- 1960 or before 30% · 1961–80 33% · 1981–2000 24% · 2001–21 11%
- Ages
- Under 15 11% · 15–24 7% · 25–44 42% · 45–64 26% · 65+ 14%
- Language at home
- English 85% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 3% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 4% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census (Statistics Canada), Grandview-Woodland. Tiers compare Vancouver's 22 local areas; the University Endowment Lands are placed against them.