Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0A larger share of residents who moved in within the year than 95% of Canadian towns: 21%
Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%; Grandview has 51%. The neighbourhood had 16,947 residents in 5,920 households at the 2021 Census. The census found that 17% of households are one person living alone locally. At 37%, the share of immigrants is higher than in 81% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Grandview
A neighbourhood people move to
A year before the census, 21% of residents lived elsewhere, 2 times the typical share; over five years, 62% moved. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Grandview: 19% of residents are under 15, above 80% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The median age in Grandview is 39.9, lower than in 65% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. The largest age band is 35–39: nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Grandview, 39.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Larger households than 84% of Canadian towns: 2.8 people on average
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, couple families are 53% of households and one-parent families 8.2%; here, 59% and 9.2%.
Married residents 15 and over: 57%, a higher share than 88% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Against a figure of 11% across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners in Grandview comes in at 7.6%. Measured more widely, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Grandview sits below 65% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (52%)
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Newer homes outnumber old: 64% date from 2001 or later, 3.1% from before 1961. Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home; in Grandview, 22%.
$107,500 a year is the median household income here
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Grandview had $107,500 before tax, 25% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for British Columbia’s towns: $87,000. Pandemic benefits reached 29% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 16% in Grandview, more than in 84% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 45%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 33% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (75%), then in Europe (16%).
Grandview: 51% of residents said they have no religion, above 87% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, Grandview has 1.5%. Among other religions: Sikh (10%) and Hindu (2%). The wider picture: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
58% have English as their mother tongue; 5.3% also speak French
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 0.7%. At home, 24% mostly speak another language; 5.1% speak neither English nor French. Grandview has fewer bilingual residents than 71% of Canadian towns, at 5.3%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 46%, a higher share than 80% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 4.1% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. The wider picture: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 59% of residents 15 and over had a job
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 59%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
Youngest by rank: 15th of 41 towns of 16,400 to 17,494 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Saint-Charles-Borromée is the oldest at 57.2, Summerside the youngest at 33.6. Saint-Émile (38.8), Surrey Centre (39), Strathmore (40) and Petite-Côte (40.2): the towns nearest Grandview in median age.
5 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Grandview
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview | 16,947 | — | 39.9 | 16% | 37% |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 2.1 km | 43.4 | 23% | 36% |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 2.9 km | 52.9 | 33% | 34% |
| Morgan Creek | 8,084 | 3.3 km | 44.8 | 21% | 34% |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 3.7 km | 58 | 37% | 29% |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 3.8 km | 39.9 | 15% | 37% |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 3.8 km | 48.3 | 25% | 41% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of British Columbia’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
Questions about Grandview’s residents
Is Grandview bilingual?
5.3% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 90% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.7%.
How diverse is Grandview?
Immigrants: 37% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 51%. Indigenous identity: 1.5%.
What religion are people in Grandview?
51% said they have no religion and 33% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Is Grandview good for families?
19% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 59% of households and one-parent families 9.2%. Schools near Grandview are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Grandview?
Half of Grandview’s households had more than $107,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Grandview?
Grandview had 16,947 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Grandview?
The median age is 39.9, younger than 65% of Canadian towns. 19% are under 15 and 16% 65 or older.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. 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).