KerrisdaleVancouver

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#1,146 of 2,556

It is one of 29 neighbourhoods of Vancouver. Population 14,105: a neighbourhood in Vancouver.

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Population

14,105

people, Census 2021

Median age

45.2

years · British Columbia’s towns: 48

Postsecondary

69%

of residents 15 and over hold a postsecondary certificate, diploma or degree · Canadian towns: 56%

Walk, cycle, transit

24%

walk, cycle or take transit to work · Canadian towns: 8%

Is Kerrisdale a good place to live?

Kerrisdale’s grades pull in different directions. It does especially well on schools (A+). Health is a strength too (A+). Homes are dear (D−). Overall, that makes a B, better than 56% of Canadian towns. In the ranking it comes #67 of 250 in British Columbia.

Rents here are the metro area's average, shared by every town and neighbourhood in it. Safety less sure: this is the whole city's figure, because the city doesn't publish open neighbourhood crime rates. Health is graded on the health region's survey figures and life expectancy, with the distance to hospital giving the town its own spread.

StrongestA⁺Walkability A⁺Schools A⁺HealthWeakestD⁻Cost of living C⁻Safety

How Kerrisdale grades

Each subject compares Kerrisdale with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.

How grading works

Cost of livingGraded on home prices against local incomesD⁻Open →WalkabilityAmong the easiest places to get around without a carA⁺Open →SchoolsIn the top fifth of the towns comparedA⁺Open →HealthBased on how healthy residents are for their agesA⁺Open →SafetyMore crime than in most townsC⁻Open →Jobs & incomeBelow the middle of the towns comparedC⁺Open →Hazard riskClose to the middle of the towns comparedB⁻Open →

How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →

What makes Kerrisdale stand out

The 3 things Kerrisdale does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data

Home value ÷ household income

Housing

32.5 times household income

The middle of Canadian towns: 4.7 times

Median owner’s estimate $3,020,000, Census 2021; income for 2020.

Cost of living

Behind 99%

of Canadian towns on cost of living

Its cost of living grade: D−.

Walkability

Better than 99%

of Canadian towns on walkability

Its walkability grade: A+.

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kerrisdale.

HousingCost of living D⁻

Renting in Kerrisdale eats 31% of household income, more than in British Columbia’s towns and across Canadian towns

$3,020,000median home value, 2021D⁻Cost of living Grade

The owner-occupied share of households is 59%. Just over two in five households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above British Columbia’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Behind rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom sits data gathered across the Vancouver metro area, with Kerrisdale one part of it.

What homes were worth · The median owner’s estimate at the 2021 census

Kerrisdale$3,020,000

British Columbia$720,000

Canadian towns$406,000

Census 2021	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Households spending 30%+ on shelter	42%	21%	18%
Rent as a share of income	31%	24%	20%
Households owning their home	59%	76%	74%

$2,364

monthly rent for a two-bedroom

Full pageKerrisdale’s cost of living pageOpen the full Cost of living page

Renting$2,364 a month · A two-bedroom apartment, CMHC’s survey Cost of living32.5 times household income · The median owner’s estimate, $3,020,000, against the median household income Owners and renters59% own their home

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada · The 2021 census asked owners what their home was worth; those values, and 2020 incomes, are what this compares.

SchoolsSchools A⁺

32 of Kerrisdale’s 41 tested schools score in the top two fifths in British Columbia

47schools within 3 kmA⁺Schools Grade

Schooling in French is on offer at 3 of 47; in British Columbia, 2% of schools teach in it. In or within 3 km of Kerrisdale: 40 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade.

School	Level	Students	System
Dr R E McKechnie Elementary Second fifth in British ColumbiaIn KerrisdaleElementary	Elementary	–	English public
Magee Secondary Middle fifth in British ColumbiaIn KerrisdaleSecondary	Secondary	–	English public
Rose-des-vents FrenchTeaches in FrenchElementary	Elementary	–	French public
Crofton House IndependentResults in the top fifth in British ColumbiaElementary	Elementary	–	Independent

See all 47 schools →

Schools by system · Schools within 3 km

English public28

Independent16

French public3

Schools within 3 km	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
School boards	2	2	3

0.4 km

to the nearest secondary school

Full pageKerrisdale’s schools pageOpen the full Schools page

Results32 of 41 in the top two fifths · of the schools with results, placed against every school in British Columbia Every school47 schools within 3 km · 40 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade Language3 of 47 teach in French · 2% of schools in British Columbia The boards2 school boards · SD 39 Vancouver Questions“What schools are there in Kerrisdale?”

Provincial school lists and results, 2025/26

HealthHealth A⁺

Health in Kerrisdale beats 96% of Canadian towns

50%very good or excellent healthA⁺Health Grade

Shared with the rest of the Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area: health survey and life expectancy

People in the region live to 83.3 on average: 86.5 for women and 80.2 for men in 2022/2024. On average 13% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below both British Columbia’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%). Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in British Columbia (50%). Smoking is rarer than in the province: 7.3% of adults, against 8.9% for British Columbia.

Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised

Kerrisdale50%

British Columbia’s towns50%

Canadian towns52%

Health	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Chronic conditions (average share)	13%	15%	17%
Life expectancy at birth	83.3	81.0	81.5
Smokers	7.3%	9%	12%
Very good or excellent health	50%	50%	52%

83.3

years of life expectancy, 2022/2024

2.9 km

from homes to a hospital, on average

7.3%

of adults smoke, age-standardised

0.6 km

from homes to a pharmacy, on average

Full pageKerrisdale’s health pageOpen the full Health page

Health survey50% very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised Getting care2.9 km to a hospital · A pharmacy 0.6 km away on average The wider areaLife expectancy: women 86.5, men 80.2 Conditions and habits13% with chronic conditions · adults, age-standardised

Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities

Climate

Kerrisdale has milder winters than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of 1.4°C

22.4°CJuly afternoons

Snowfall adds up to 37 cm a year, below British Columbia’s towns (51 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. Frost usually lifts by 19 March and returns around 10 November: 235 days without it. Midsummer afternoons in Kerrisdale peak at about 22.4°C. A normal December brings 14 cm of snow, the most of any month.

Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

Winter7.1°C

Spring13.4°C

Summer21.5°C

Autumn14.0°C

Normals, 1991–2020	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Days with frost a year	40	60	159
January night low	1.4°C	0.5°C	−13.5°C
July afternoon high	22.4°C	23.1°C	25.5°C
Snowfall a year	37 cm	51 cm	141 cm

37 cm

of snow a year

days with frost a year

235

frost-free days, 19 Mar to 10 Nov

137

days with precipitation a year

Full pageKerrisdale’s climate pageOpen the full Climate page

The yearJuly highs 22.4°C, January lows 1.4°C Rain and snow1,160 mm a year · Canadian towns: 883 mm Snow37 cm of snow a year Weather station4.6 km to the station · Vancouver International (Airport)

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Vancouver International (Airport))

SafetySafety C⁻

The police who cover Kerrisdale record more serious crime than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: a Crime Severity Index of 93

93Crime Severity Index

The violent index for its police area came to 99, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Property crime in the area its police cover: 43.6 per 1,000 people a year. Kerrisdale doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the Vancouver service area.

Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year

202397

202494

202589

2023–2025	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Property crime per 1,000	43.6	31	31.2
Crime Severity Index	93	83	67
Violent Crime Severity Index	99	76	86

non-violent Crime Severity Index

26%

of incidents cleared, 2023–25

Full pageKerrisdale’s safety reportOpen the full Safety report

Safety93 Crime Severity Index · The index weighs each crime Kerrisdale’s police recorded by how serious it is.Questions“Is Kerrisdale safe?”

Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average

Work & commuteJobs & income C⁺

Fewer commuters in Kerrisdale drive than in British Columbia’s towns or across Canadian towns: 72%

24%walk, cycle or take transit

Getting to work takes 27 min on average.

How working residents got to work · census 2021

Car or van72%

Public transit14%

Walk8%

Bicycle1%

Census 2021	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Car or van	72%	87%	89%
Average trip	27 min	26 min	26 min

$93,000

median household income, 2020

37%

worked from home, May 2021

66%

of commuters work inside the municipality

Full pageKerrisdale’s work & commute pageOpen the full Work & commute page

Getting to work24% walk, cycle or take transit Unemployment8.2% unemployed · Of the labour force · Canadian towns: 9.9%

Statistics Canada, Census 2021 (labour and commuting) · The 2021 census was taken in May 2021, during COVID-19 restrictions: more people than usual worked from home or were off work.

Who lives here

Visible minorities make up more of Kerrisdale than of British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 63%

45.2median age

Children under 15 make up 12%, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (14%) and Canadian towns (16%). Over-65s are just over a fifth of the population.

KerrisdaleBritish ColumbiaCanada

British ColumbiaCanada

Ages · Share of residents in each age group, Census 2021

21%

Schooling · Highest qualification, residents 15 and over

No certificate, diploma or degree8%

Postsecondary qualification69%

Women and men · all residents

Women make up 53.2% of Kerrisdale

Of the 2021 count, 7,500 were women and 6,595 men (women across Canada: 50.9%).

Who lives in Kerrisdale
	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Under 15	12%	14%	16%
15 to 64	67%	64%	64%
65+	21%	21%	19%
No certificate, diploma or degree	7.5%	13%	16%
Postsecondary qualification	69%	56%	56%

Full pageKerrisdale’s Who lives here pageOpen the full Who lives here page

Ages45.2 median age · 21% are 65 or over Households5,920 households English and French9% speak both · 0% speak French but not English

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; British Columbia and Canada: medians of towns of 2,500+

Weather

A normal November in Kerrisdale runs from 4°C to 9°C

9°Ca normal November afternoon

About 3 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Into December, the normals move to 7°C and 1°C. A normal November brings 175 mm of rain and snow. Across the year, normals run from 1°C nights in December to 22°C afternoons in July.

Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

November9°C

December7°C

January7°C

February8°C

Season	High	Low	Rain and snow
Winter	7°C	1°C	437 mm
Spring	13°C	6°C	251 mm
Summer	21°C	13°C	121 mm
Autumn	14°C	7°C	350 mm

4°C

a normal November night

175 mm

of rain and snow in a normal November

Full pageKerrisdale’s weather pageOpen the full Weather page

Next 24 hoursTemperature and chance of rain, hour by hour The week aheadECCC’s days ahead, beside the normals The yearWarmest July, coldest December

ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Vancouver International (Airport)); the forecast is on the Weather page

Town hall

Vancouver Quadra, which takes in Kerrisdale, is held by Wade Grant (Liberal Party of Canada)

Kerrisdale is in Vancouver-Quilchena for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, whose current MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly, the provincial or territorial legislature) no open source we can use records yet.

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Who runs itCity

Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada

Library & civic lifeCivic life grade A⁻

Kerrisdale’s public library is Vancouver Public Library Kerrisdale Branch

Kerrisdale is served by Vancouver Public Library, the library of all of Vancouver, so the figures here are the city’s, for 742,394 people.

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A year at the library6.5 visits per person served The libraries1 Libraries Places to belong2.4 charities per 1,000 residents

Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada

Outdoors

Protected land around Kerrisdale beats 9 in 10 Canadian towns

18%of the land within 10 km protected

Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is the closest national park, 39 km from town. For a provincial park, Cypress Park lies 14 km off. Biggest among them: Sturgeon Bank Wildlife Management Area, 7,775 ha, 2.1 km off. 11 protected areas lie within 10 km.

Protected land · of the land within 10 km

Kerrisdale18%

British Columbia’s towns6.7%

Canadian towns2.3%

Outdoors	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Protected land within 10 km	18%	6.7%	2.3%
Public protected areas within 10 km	9	14	4

39 km

to Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

14 km

to Cypress Park

beaches within 5 km

public protected areas within 10 km

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Protected landof the land within 10 km Protected areas11 protected areas within 10 km · Sturgeon Bank Wildlife Management Area National & provincial parks39 km to a national park · Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches

Natural hazardsHazard risk B⁻

Earthquakes are Kerrisdale’s biggest hazard: $0.43 of damage a year per $1,000 of buildings, 14 times the norm

Lowwildfire bandB⁻Hazard risk Grade

The earthquake risk numbers here cover the city of Vancouver

Fire seldom reaches Kerrisdale: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). Of the homes tested for radon, 1.2% were over 200 Bq/m³, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (1.8%) and Canadian towns (6.6%). The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from City of Vancouver.

Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³

Kerrisdale1.2%

British Columbia’s towns1.8%

Canadian towns6.6%

Hazards	Kerrisdale	British Columbia	Canada
Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year	$0.43	$0.36	$0.030
Radon tests above the guideline	1.2%	1.8%	6.6%

$0.43

expected earthquake loss a year per $1,000 of buildings

Low

wildfire band

5.6 km

to the nearest land burned since 1986

flood study on the national inventory

Full pageKerrisdale’s flood & hazards pageOpen the full Flood & hazards page

Earthquakes$0.43 a year per $1,000 · Canadian towns: $0.030 WildfireLow wildfire band · 0.2% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 FloodOne flood study on record Radon1.2% of tests above the guideline Be readyAlerts, FireSmart and radon tests

NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Vancouver health region

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Kerrisdale

15pages on Kerrisdale

The big questions

SafetyC⁻Crime Severity Index 93 Housing & costD⁻Homes 32.5 × income Property pricesSchoolsA⁺47 schools within 3 km HealthA⁺Life expectancy 83.3 in its region Work & commuteC⁺52% of adults in work Natural hazardsB⁻Wildfire band: low

Out and about

Outdoors18% of the land within 10 km protected AttractionsClimateJuly afternoons around 22°C WeatherECCC’s forecast, beside the normals

The story

Who lives hereMedian age 45.2 HistoryTown hallFamous people

Nearby attractions

Museum of Vancouver and 43 more in and around Kerrisdale

From museums to parks and historic sites: Kerrisdale’s places to visit and those just beyond its edge, most famous first.

All attractions →

MuseumMuseum of Vancouver4.6 km outside town, to the northeast · 78K visitors a year

GardenQueen Elizabeth Park2 km outside town, to the east

GardenVanDusen Botanical Garden800 m outside town, to the east

ZooBloedel Conservatory2.1 km outside town, to the east

CathedralHoly Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral4.1 km outside town, to the east

MuseumSeaforth Armoury4.1 km outside town, to the northeast

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (6)

Museum of Vancouver: Bobanny, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Queen Elizabeth Park: Craig Nagy from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
VanDusen Botanical Garden: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bloedel Conservatory: Sporkist/Taz ( http://taz.sporkism.org ), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral: Akatnick, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Seaforth Armoury: Bobanny, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

About Kerrisdale

Neighbourhood in Vancouver

TownRatings splits Vancouver into neighbourhoods drawn from census dissemination areas; Kerrisdale is one of them, named from the city’s map or OpenStreetMap.

Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.

Population: 14,105 (people, 2021 estimate)
Province or territory: British Columbia
City: Vancouver
Census subdivision: 5915022

Kerrisdale’s neighbours

The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada

Arbutus RidgeShaughnessyOakridgeDunbar-SouthlandsMarpoleMusqueam 2Kerrisdale

How the neighbours grade

Town	People	km	Overall	Cost	Safety	Health
Kerrisdale	14,105	—	B	D⁻	C⁻	A⁺
Arbutus Ridge	15,083	2	B⁻	D⁻	C⁻	A⁺
Shaughnessy	8,034	2.4	B	D	C⁻	A⁺
Oakridge	14,071	2.4	C⁺	D⁻	C⁻	A⁺
Dunbar-Southlands	21,117	2.6	B	D	C⁻	A⁺
Marpole	28,182	2.9	C	D⁻	C⁻	A⁺
Musqueam 2	1,879	3.4	—	—	—	A

People: Statistics Canada, Census 2021. Distances: centre to centre.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155) and 2021 census boundaries · Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2023–25 (35-10-0026, 35-10-0183 to 35-10-0190) · CMHC rents as published by Statistics Canada (34-10-0133) · grades by TownRatings. 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).