Sunset
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
- Punjabi Market
What stands out
- Among the likeliest to take transit to work in Vancouver (30% of commuters)
- Among the longest transit trips to Waterfront on the East Side (about 42 min)
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1.7M · renters pay $1,340/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
- 30–45 min. About 42 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 64% drive · 30% transit · 4% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 49% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 20%. 15% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 18% · Semi & row 4% · Low-rise 78%
- Built
- 1960 or before 18% · 1961–80 21% · 1981–2000 28% · 2001–21 31%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 15% · 25–44 30% · 45–64 26% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English 49% · Punjabi 13% · Cantonese 9%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 11% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 7% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census (Statistics Canada), Sunset. Tiers compare Vancouver's 22 local areas; the University Endowment Lands are placed against them.