University Endowment Lands
Beside the City of Vancouver, not part of it
Open University Endowment Lands on the mapThe map shows every boundary here, from wards and ridings to school boards, with what’s nearby. Tap any address in it for its own card.
Names you’ll hear here
- University Village
- Wesbrook Village
Landmarks:
- Chan Centre
- Museum of Anthropology
- Nitobe Memorial Garden
- Pacific Spirit Regional Park
- UBC Botanical Garden
- Wreck Beach
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.6M · renters pay $2,230/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.
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 47% drive · 17% transit · 30% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 58% rent
- Tree canopy
- 45% or more. 77% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 5% · Semi & row 8% · Low-rise 34% · Towers 53%
- Built
- 1960 or before 4% · 1961–80 6% · 1981–2000 18% · 2001–21 71%
- Ages
- Under 15 15% · 15–24 25% · 25–44 27% · 45–64 21% · 65+ 11%
- Language at home
- English 56% · Mandarin 20%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 7% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 10% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census (Statistics Canada), University Endowment Lands. Tiers compare Vancouver's 22 local areas; the University Endowment Lands are placed against them.