Heights, #1 on this list · Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / Richard Eriksson (CC BY 2.0)

Burnaby · 2026

Best neighbourhoods to live in Burnaby

Last comes Burnaby Mountain, at C+. Nationally, Heights ranks #813 of 2,556. Not one of Burnaby’s neighbourhoods reaches the top 100 for all of Canada. Nowhere in Burnaby does better on this list than Heights, at B+. Brentwood is second (B+) and Broadview third (B). Of the 18 on the list, not one earns an A.

Overall grade: one score from every livability grade, each neighbourhood placed on the scale of Canada’s towns How grades work

#1

Heights

22,141 people

B⁺

Score 57.2·#813 of 2,556 Canadian towns

Strongest: walkability A⁺, schools A⁺·lowest: cost of living D⁻

#2

Brentwood

22,170 people

B⁺

Score 56.7·#844 of 2,556 Canadian towns

Strongest: walkability A⁺, health A·lowest: cost of living D⁻

#3

Broadview

8,008 people

B

Score 55.1·#961 of 2,556 Canadian towns

Strongest: walkability A⁺, health A·lowest: cost of living D⁻

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), 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. 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).