Fairview, #1 on this list · Photo: Canmenwalker (CC BY 4.0)

Vancouver · 2026

Best neighbourhoods to live in Vancouver

Kitsilano takes second place with B+; Greektown is third with B+. No A of any kind goes to any of the 29 listed. Last comes Strathcona, at C. Nationally, Fairview ranks #804 of 2,556. Not one of Vancouver’s neighbourhoods reaches the top 100 for all of Canada. Nowhere in Vancouver does better on this list than Fairview, at B+.

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

#1

Fairview

33,969 people

B⁺

Score 57.3·#804 of 2,556 Canadian towns

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

#2

Kitsilano

27,320 people

B⁺

Score 56.8·#835 of 2,556 Canadian towns

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

#3

Greektown

16,618 people

B⁺

Score 56.6·#847 of 2,556 Canadian towns

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

Photos: Fairview, Canmenwalker (CC BY 4.0) · Kitsilano, Xicotencatl (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Greektown, Tavis Ford from Canada (CC BY 2.0), 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).