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

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

Но 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 Закат, карман между Онтарио и Knight улиц, между Е. 41ул Avenue и реки Фрейзер.

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

Верхняя 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. Закат: 8.8% (восток)
2. Dunbar-Southlands: 8.7% (запад)
3. Килларни: 7.7% (восток)
4. Kensington-Cedar Cottage: 7.7% (восток)
5. Шонесси: 7.5% (запад)
6. Вест-Пойнт Серый: 7.5% (запад)
7. Hastings-Sunrise: 7.5% (восток)
8. Renfrew-Collingwood: 7.4% (восток)
9. Arbutus-Ridge: 7.4% (запад)
10. Kerrisdale: 7.3% (запад)

The areas with the fewest school-age kids? Фэрвью вдоль Юго-Восточной False Creek (2.7%); Downtown, including the rapidly developing Coal Harbour community (2.6%); и West End (1.7%).

Фото D. Шарон Прюитт (Flickr)