#1Sunnyside
16,784 peopleScore 53.5·#1,092 of 2,556 Canadian towns
Strongest: schools A, health A·lowest: cost of living D−
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Sunnyside, #1 on this list · Photo: DJ Cane (CC BY-SA 4.0)Last comes Whalley, at D. Nationally, Sunnyside ranks #1,092 of 2,556. Not one of Surrey’s neighbourhoods reaches the top 100 for all of Canada. Nowhere in Surrey does better on this list than Sunnyside, at B. Clayton Heights is second (B−) and Aloha Estates third (B−). Of the 31 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
#1Score 53.5·#1,092 of 2,556 Canadian towns
Strongest: schools A, health A·lowest: cost of living D−
Score 52.3·#1,176 of 2,556 Canadian towns
Strongest: health A, walkability A·lowest: cost of living D−
Score 51.6·#1,235 of 2,556 Canadian towns
Strongest: health A, walkability A·lowest: cost of living D
Each neighbourhood by its overall score, best first, with its grade and national rank beside it.
31 neighbourhoods
Photos: Sunnyside, DJ Cane (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).