West End
Local area in Vancouver
Side: Downtown
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About Downtown
The peninsula: Downtown, the West End and Stanley Park.
Names you’ll hear here
- Davie Village
What stands out
- Among the most affordable homes in Vancouver (median $810K)
- Highest share of renters in Vancouver (81% rent)
- Most likely to walk or bike to work in Vancouver (41% of commuters)
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $810K · renters pay $1,580/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 22 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 34% drive · 22% transit · 41% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 81% rent
- Tree canopy
- 28–45%. 28% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Low-rise 21% · Towers 78%
- Built
- 1960 or before 21% · 1961–80 47% · 1981–2000 23% · 2001–21 9%
- Ages
- Under 15 5% · 15–24 6% · 25–44 49% · 45–64 24% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English 78% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 4% 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), West End. Tiers compare Vancouver's 22 local areas; the University Endowment Lands are placed against them.