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Burnaby · 2026

Burnaby’s neighbourhoods on 13 lists

With 5 first places, Heights leads the most lists. Brentwood makes the top three on 6 lists. Schools is graded within British Columbia alone, so its list stops at the border. Not one leader in Burnaby is first nationally. Here are 13 lists for Burnaby, with 18 neighbourhoods on them. Heights leads the overall list with a grade of B+.

Each list ranks the neighbourhoods in Burnaby against one another; the letters compare every place with Canada’s towns. How grades work

Rankings

Every list for Burnaby’s neighbourhoods

Grouped by what they measure, each with its three best neighbourhoods.

Lists for all of Canada

Overall, and by size

Best places to live
  1. HeightsB+
  2. BrentwoodB+
  3. BroadviewB
All 18 →

Subject by subject

Most affordable
  1. Lake CityD
  2. LougheedD−
  3. Burnaby MountainD−
All 18 →Safest
  1. HeightsC+
  2. BrentwoodC+
  3. BroadviewC+
All 18 →Best schools
  1. HeightsA+
  2. LochdaleA+
  3. HoldomA
All 18 →Healthiest
  1. BroadviewA
  2. LochdaleA
  3. HoldomA
All 18 →Jobs & income
  1. BainbridgeB
  2. BrentwoodB−
  3. Lake CityB−
All 18 →Most walkable
  1. MetrotownA+
  2. EdmondsA+
  3. LougheedA+
All 18 →Lowest hazard risk
  1. HeightsB
  2. BrentwoodB
  3. BroadviewB
All 18 →Civic life
  1. HeightsB
  2. BrentwoodB
  3. BroadviewB
All 18 →

Described: figures, no letters

Highest incomes
  1. Lake City$138,200
  2. Bainbridge$120,500
  3. Buckingham Heights$117,700
All 18 →Most bilingual
  1. Burnaby Mountain7.9%
  2. Bainbridge6.8%
  3. Montecito5.9%
All 18 →Youngest
  1. Burnaby Mountain34 years
  2. Brentwood35.6 years
  3. Metrotown38 years
All 18 →Oldest
  1. Deer Lake45.8 years
  2. South Slope45.3 years
  3. Lake City44.7 years
All 18 →
City by city

Neighbourhood rankings in other cities

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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) · Lake City, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Lougheed, ChrisStubbs (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Burnaby Mountain, The Cosmonaut (CC BY-SA 2.5 ca) · Lochdale, The Cosmonaut (CC BY-SA 2.5 ca) · Holdom, Wakasui (CC0) · Metrotown, Darren Kirby Darren Kirby (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Edmonds, Northwest (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Buckingham Heights, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Deer Lake, Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · South Slope, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson S… (Public domain), 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).