Vancouver blogger Chad Skelton — aka “Curious Dad” – has an interesting series of posts about which neighborhoods in Vancouver are home to the most 乳幼児, preschoolers, と elementary school kids.

Many families who are house-hunting in Vancouver want to end up on the city’s tonier west side, where the 学校 have a strong reputation.

しかし、 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 サンセット, オンタリオ州とナイトストリートの間にポケット, Eと. 41ST通りとフレーザー川.

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

トップ 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. サンセット: 8.8% (東)
2. Dunbar-Southlands: 8.7% (西)
3. キラーニー: 7.7% (東)
4. Kensington-Cedar Cottage: 7.7% (東)
5. ショーネシー: 7.5% (西)
6. ウエストポイントグレー: 7.5% (西)
7. Hastings-Sunrise: 7.5% (東)
8. Renfrew-Collingwood: 7.4% (東)
9. Arbutus-Ridge: 7.4% (西)
10. Kerrisdale: 7.3% (西)

The areas with the fewest school-age kids? フェアビュー 東南アジアバンクーバーに沿って (2.7%); ダウンタウン, including the rapidly developing Coal Harbour community (2.6%); と ウェストエンド (1.7%).

写真で D. シャロンプルーイット (Flickrの)