Vancouver blogger Chad Skelton — aka “Curioso papá” – has an interesting series of posts about which neighborhoods in Vancouver son el hogar de los más bebés, preschoolers, y elementary school kids.

Many families who are house-hunting in Vancouver want to end up on the city’s tonier west side, donde el escuelas tienen una strong reputation.

Sin embargo, Curious Dad’s statistics show that families with school-age kids are more-or-less equally divided between the east and west sections of the city.

The neighborhood with the highest percentage of children between the ages of six and 12 is the east-side community of Sunset, la bolsa entre Ontario y Knight Calles, entre E. 41st Avenue y el río Fraser.

Coming in at number 2 is the west-side neighborhood of Dunbar-Southlands.

La parte superior 10 kid-friendly neighborhoods — those with the highest percentage of kids ages 6-12 — include five on the east side and five on the west:

1. Sunset: 8.8% (al este)
2. Dunbar-Southlands: 8.7% (oeste)
3. Killarney: 7.7% (al este)
4. Kensington-Cedar Cottage: 7.7% (al este)
5. Shaughnessy: 7.5% (oeste)
6. West Point Grey: 7.5% (oeste)
7. Hastings-Sunrise: 7.5% (al este)
8. Renfrew-Collingwood: 7.4% (al este)
9. Arbutus-Ridge: 7.4% (oeste)
10. Kerrisdale: 7.3% (oeste)

The areas with the fewest school-age kids? Fairview junto sudeste False Creek (2.7%); Downtown, including the rapidly developing Coal Harbour community (2.6%); y el West End (1.7%).

Foto por D. Sharon Pruitt (Flickr)