Burnaby

Burnaby sits squarely in the middle of Metro Vancouver, covering roughly 98.6 square kilometres between Vancouver to the west, Coquitlam and Port Moody to the east, the Fraser River to the south, and Burrard Inlet to the north. Incorporated in 1892, it has grown into the region's third-largest city, home to about 249,125 residents according to the [2021 Census](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/). The terrain rolls between forested ridges and lake basins, with Burnaby Mountain rising in the northeast and Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake anchoring large stretches of protected parkland through the middle of the city. What Burnaby is best known for is the way it weaves together education, transit, and green space at city scale. Simon Fraser University crowns Burnaby Mountain, the British Columbia Institute of Technology sits closer to the centre, and the [Burnaby School District](https://burnabyschools.ca/) runs 41 elementary and 8 secondary schools across the city. Both the Expo Line and Millennium Line SkyTrains run through Burnaby, linking Metrotown, Brentwood Town Centre, Lougheed Town Centre, Edmonds, and Production Way–University into a connected spine of mixed-use districts. The neighbourhoods that follow are genuinely distinct from one another. Metrotown is a dense, high-rise commercial core; Brentwood and Lougheed are reshaping themselves around transit-oriented towers; Deer Lake is quiet, leafy, and cultural; and the southern slopes toward the Fraser hold older single-family pockets and riverfront industrial heritage. Use the guides below to see how each area lives day to day. More detail on civic services and parks is available from the [City of Burnaby](https://www.burnaby.ca/).