Find your neighbourhood in Burnaby
Its population has risen 20.3% since the 2021 count. The strongest overall grade in the city goes to Heights, #813 among 2,556 nationally. The city’s neighbourhoods are strongest on walkability and weakest on cost of living, against the country. No neighbourhood in the city reaches A− or better. The weakest overall grade in the city belongs to Burnaby Mountain, ranked #1,747 of 2,556. Midway through the city’s neighbourhoods comes Garden Village, placed #1,163 of 2,556. Burnaby is covered by 18 neighbourhoods, each with its own page. The most populous neighbourhood is Metrotown, at 36,594.
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In national order: each neighbourhood is ranked in its province and across the country, not within the city.
18 towns · in national order
Burnaby’s neighbourhoods, list by list
Heights is first on 5 of the 13 lists that rank the neighbourhoods in Burnaby.
Questions about Burnaby
How do the biggest towns in Burnaby grade?
Metrotown grades B− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Next in size, Edmonds grades C+, best in walkability.
Is every town in Burnaby on TownRatings?
Yes: every neighbourhood of Burnaby has its page, listed here.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
Neighbourhoods are ranked in their province and nationally, not against each other within the city.
Photos: Heights, https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / … (CC BY 2.0) · Brentwood, Northwest (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Broadview, Yuet Man Lee (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Holdom, Wakasui (CC0) · Deer Lake, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Lake City, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Lochdale, The Cosmonaut (CC BY-SA 2.5 ca) · South Slope, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson S… (Public domain) · Garden Village, Grahamcoutts (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Buckingham Heights, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Oak, Northwest (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Metrotown, Darren Kirby Darren Kirby (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Lougheed, ChrisStubbs (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Edmonds, Northwest (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Burnaby Mountain, The Cosmonaut (CC BY-SA 2.5 ca), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Canadian towns against each other only, run #73 of 10 November 2026 · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population and population estimates. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).