2320 Elgin Ave, Port Coquitlam

Zone

CC (Community Commercial)

Zoning bylaw

City of Port Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630

Homes allowed

Apartments only above the ground floor, with their own entrance and all their parking inside the building or underground (Table 3.3, Note 2). No house, duplex or townhouse

Exceptions (1)

• Apartments on the ground floor of a building of at most 4 storeys at one lot the bylaw names, on Wilson Avenue

Listed in Table 3.3, Note 2(c) of the bylaw.

Main uses

Shops and services for a commercial centre: general and convenience retail (firearms at most 10% of a shop's retail floor, up to 25 m²), auto parts, building and landscape supplies and nurseries, furniture, tools, electronics and appliances, musical instruments, rentals, apartments (above), child care, cinemas, theatres, entertainment and commercial indoor recreation, commercial schools, financial institutions (a payday loan or cheque-cashing business at least 1 km from another), funeral homes, hotels (on a lot of 1,400 m² or more, no rooms on the ground floor), offices, personal services, pet daycare and grooming (indoors, not in a building with apartments), restaurants, trade contractors, veterinary services, wine and beer making, parking lots and structures, parks and playgrounds; accessory container return, school-age group child care (only with indoor recreation or a commercial school), home businesses, rental and repair, restaurants and retail (Table 3.3 and its notes)

Exceptions (1)

• Assembly uses, a dinner theatre, a neighbourhood pub, packaged liquor sales and a cannabis retail outlet only at lots the bylaw names, some with a floor area cap

Listed in Table 3.3, notes to assembly uses, dinner theatres, neighbourhood pubs, packaged liquor sales and cannabis retail outlets of the bylaw.

Smallest lot for a subdivision

500 m², 15 m wide, 15 m frontage, 28 m deep (Table 3.2)

Lot coverage

90%; floor area ratio 1.5, not counting shared entrances, stairs, halls and service rooms, balconies and decks, floor area at ground level or below ground, required parking inside the building, and 2 m² in each adaptable home (Table 3.4, Note 6)

Height limit

None set in the zone (Table 3.4)

Exceptions (1)

• One storey at four lots the bylaw names, on Westwood Street and Marpole Avenue

Listed in Table 3.4, Note 7 of the bylaw.

Setbacks

Front none, rear none, street side 1.5 m; inside sides none, or 1.8 m beside a lot in a residential zone; at least 9 m from a provincial highway (Table 3.4, Notes 1, 2)

Heritage conservation area

None over the lot on the Province's list of local heritage conservation areas (a newly designated one may not be listed yet, and single buildings protected by a heritage bylaw aren't on it)

Fewest homes provincial law requires

Doesn't set a floor here as far as we can tell: the CC zone (Community Commercial) isn't limited to houses and duplexes (from our summary of the bylaw), and the provincial floor applies only in zones that are.

Transit-oriented area (provincial minimum)

Not in one as we read it: the nearest prescribed station, Port Coquitlam Station (a West Coast Express station), is about 530 m from the lot, past the 400 m the Province sets for it. Our measure from the regulation's station points (B.C. Reg. 263/2023), checked 2026-10-06.

Short-term rentals (provincial rule)

The Province's principal residence requirement applies in Port Coquitlam (list in force from June 1, 2026): a short-term rental (under 90 days) is limited to the host's own home plus one secondary suite or garden suite on the same property. Land assessed as a farm (class 9) is exempt. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.

The zone is for a wide range of general commercial and personal service uses in walkable commercial centres, with homes above ground-floor shops (Table 3.1).

Apartments: over 10 homes, at least 3.5 m² of shared outdoor open space and 2 m² of indoor amenity space per home; in a mixed-use building of over 10 homes, at least 25% family-oriented homes and 5% with three or more bedrooms; outdoor storage screened by landscaping at least 2 m high (s. 3.5).

Child care: at most 8 children in a home, which must be lived in and have its own way outside, not with a home business; a centre for 10 or more people at most 50 children, outside the homes, built to the Building Code's assembly rules, one per building in commercial premises (Section III, ss. 8-3, 8-4).

Home businesses in an apartment: residents only (at most two), inside the home, no personal services or pet grooming, at most five visits a day, not with boarding or child care (Section III, ss. 5-1, 5-3).

Short-term rental is allowed only as a home business in the A and RS zones, so not here (Section III, s. 5-4).

Uses the zone doesn't list aren't allowed (Section II, s. 5).

Our summary of Section II, Part 3 of City of Port Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630, consolidated to 2026-07-14, checked 2026-10-06. Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property.

Zoning is only one layer: development permit areas, the official community plan, the ALR, building and septic permits and provincial housing rules can add limits or allow more. Confirm with the City of Port Coquitlam's development services department before you buy or build.

The provincial floor is our summary of the small-scale multi-unit housing rules in the Local Government Act (ss. 481.3 and 481.4) and the Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, checked 2026-10-04. Local governments had to bring their bylaws in line by June 30, 2024, and with the 2025 changes by June 30, 2026, so the zone's own rules usually allow at least these homes already; height, coverage, setbacks and parking still decide how they fit. Whether the lot is inside an urban containment boundary, on community water or sewer, or near a frequent bus stop isn't checked here: confirm with the local government before you buy or build.

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

360 m² (100%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

0%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

0%

15 to 30% slope

0%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

100%

Median slope

1%

Main slope direction

Mostly flat (slopes under 5%); measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (Lower Mainland survey, 2016; 2 m grid)

Which way it faces

0% south (SE to SW), 0% north (NW to NE), 100% flat; the rest east or west

Terrain stability (Province's map)

The Province's terrain stability mapping doesn't cover this lot: it was mapped from air photos, mostly on forest land, so most towns and farmland aren't on it. That says nothing either way about the ground's stability

Fossils recorded within 5 km

One published collection: insects from the Quadra Sand Formation, Pleistocene, about 50 thousand years ago; about 3.8 km from the lot line.

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's lidar elevation model, from the Lower Mainland survey (2016): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 2 m grid, one dot on the plan per cell. Retaining walls, road cuts and ditches count as steep ground, and earthworks since the survey aren't shown. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

Designated floodplain counts as clear here: homes are built on it, with floors raised to the flood construction level and setbacks from the water that the local bylaw sets. The Floodplain section names the map, and the level where we've read the local bylaw; ask the local government for the level that applies.

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

Fossils recorded nearby are collections published in the scientific literature and entered in the Paleobiology Database: where a find was made, not what lies under the lot, and most of BC's fossil ground has never been searched. Positions are as the papers gave them, often to the nearest minute (up to about 2 km off), so a collection is never placed on the lot. On Crown land fossils are the Province's, and collecting rules apply; on titled land, ask the owner.

December 21 (shortest day)

7 h 50 min of possible direct sun; 8 h on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

11 h 30 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

15 h 40 min; 16 h on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

17° above level; the hills due south rise to 2°, 2.3 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

2° above level to the south, 1.7 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 8 m, from head height

Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude)

About 940 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 30), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.45 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.31 in December

Water the ground lets you see (16 km)

Coquitlam River to the north, from about 900 m away, across about 10° of the horizon; Parsons Channel to the south-southeast, from about 8.2 km away, across about 10° of the horizon; Alouette River to the east, from about 15 km away

Highest skyline

6° above level to the north-northeast, 8.3 km away

Named peaks in view (150 km)

Mount Judge Howay to the northeast, 43 km away (about 2,144 m); Slesse Mountain to the east-southeast, 90 km away (about 2,278 m); Mount Robie Reid to the east-northeast, 36 km away (about 2,006 m); Canadian Border Peak to the east-southeast, 85 km away (about 2,180 m); Mount McGuire to the east-southeast, 78 km away (about 1,963 m); and 38 more

Highest ground in view

About 2,278 m: Slesse Mountain, to the east-southeast, 90 km away

Farthest ground in view

About 99 km to the east-southeast: Macdonald Peak

Most relief in one direction

To the east-southeast: from sea level, 4.9 km away, up to about 2,300 m, 98 km away

Town centres in line of sight

None within 150 km, over the bare ground

City lights in direct line (150 km)

In direct line (our reading): the lights of Port Coquitlam to the east-southeast, 3.4 km (95 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city centre); the lights of Pitt Meadows to the east-southeast, 6.8 km (94 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city centre); the lights of Maple Ridge to the east-southeast, 15 km (77 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city centre); the lights of Port Moody to the northwest, 3.1 km (70 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city centre); and 4 more

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

The panel output is our reading of Natural Resources Canada's figures: its map gives the sun reaching a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude, averaged over 1998-2022 on a grid of about 10 km, and we turn it into kWh for each kW of panels at the performance ratio its Photovoltaic Potential maps use (0.75: losses in heat, wiring, the inverter and dirt). The map is for an open sky: the hills around the lot, trees, buildings and snow on the panels aren't counted. A solar installer measures the roof or the spot itself.

What the ground allows you to see from head height at the middle of the lot, read by us on the same elevation model as the sun hours, out to 16 km: trees, buildings and the house's own spot and height aren't counted, so a view the ground allows can be hidden by the forest, and a second storey can see over a rise. Lakes and rivers are the Freshwater Atlas's; the sea is read where the elevation model sits at sea level.

Peaks, towns and the farthest ground are read by us out to 150 km on the same elevation model, coarser past 16 km (cells of 240 m to 60 km, 480 m beyond), with the curve of the earth and the usual bending of light: summits read lower than they are at that scale, so a peak only counts when it clears the ground before it, and one at the very edge of the skyline may be left out. It's what the bare ground allows on a perfectly clear day: haze, smoke, cloud, trees and buildings aren't counted. Peak names are BC Geographical Names'; peaks outside BC aren't named.

City lights in direct line are our reading: the satellite's lit cells (15 nW/cm²/sr and up, the brightness of a town centre or more) within 150 km, each named after the nearest town centre within 8 km, and a town counted when one of its brightest cells, taken 10 m above the ground, clears the bare ground before it on the same elevation model as the long view. It says where lights are in a straight line, not how bright they look: the glow a town throws over a ridge isn't modelled, so a town behind the hills can still light the sky above them, and haze, trees and buildings aren't counted.

Fires on the parcel

0

Fires within 2 km

1

Within 2 km in the last 30 years

0

Most recent nearby

1951 (42 ha, caused by people)

Largest nearby

1951 (42 ha, caused by people)

Causes on record within 2 km

1 caused by people

Natural fire regime (the Province's ecosystem map)

NDT2, infrequent stand-initiating events: forest where large fires replaced the stand about every 200 years on average, leaving wide even-aged stands with a few older trees that survived

Biogeoclimatic unit

Coastal Western Hemlock zone, dry maritime subzone, Eastern variant (CWHdm3)

Fire perimeters mapped by the BC Wildfire Service since 1919, each with its size and the cause the Service recorded (lightning or people, sometimes unknown); older and small fires are less complete. Past fire is history, not a forecast: for insurance, ask about the fire protection area and the distance to the nearest fire hall.

The natural disturbance type is how the forest here burned, blew down or otherwise renewed itself before logging and fire suppression, from the Province's biogeoclimatic map and its Biodiversity Guidebook (1995). It describes the land around the lot over centuries, not the lot's own fire risk or the odds of a fire in any year; the Province's fire threat rating and fuel maps aren't open data. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)

0.42 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.21 g

Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings

0.97 g

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years, on softer ground

0.46 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.47 g on soft soil, about 10% more than on firm ground

The same value in city centres

Victoria 0.81 g, Vancouver 0.47 g, Kelowna 0.089 g, Prince George 0.064 g

Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more recorded since 1985

30 within 50 km and 158 within 100 km

Largest within 100 km

M4.9 in April 1990, about 65 km away

Nearest of magnitude 3 or more

M3.1 in July 1991, about 20 km away (NRCan: Southern British Columbia)

Tsunami

More than 2 km from the ocean shore, so the Province's tsunami notification zones, which are for the coast, don't bear on it

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C), with the values the code gives stiff soil (D) and soft soil (E) beside them. Which class the lot's ground is isn't on any open map: the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer. Very soft ground, peat or fill that can liquefy (site class F) needs a site-specific assessment.

2% in 50 years means shaking at least this strong has about a 1-in-2,500 chance in any year; 10% in 50 years, about 1 in 475. g is the acceleration of gravity. The comparison with Vancouver and the other cities is ours.

Liquefaction and earthquake-triggered landslides aren't covered here; ask the local government whether it has mapped them.

Past earthquakes are those Natural Resources Canada's National Earthquake Database records within 100 km of the lot's middle since 1985, the start of its digital record, at magnitude 2.5 and up; blasts, mining events (tremors set off in a mine) and slides are left out. The seismograph network has grown much denser since then, so smaller quakes found today would have gone unrecorded in the 1980s, and positions are good to a few kilometres. A count of past quakes isn't a measure of the hazard: the building code's values above are.

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

0

On record within 5 km

6

Nearest

2.4 km from the lot: an earth slide, Jan 2005, after rainfall; its position is marked with low confidence

Kinds within 5 km

debris flow 4, debris avalanche 1, earth slide 1

With a date

1 of 6; the latest Jan 2005 (earth slide, 2.4 km from the lot)

Recorded causes

rainfall 5

This is a list of landslides that are known to have happened, gathered from published inventories and from mapping on satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map: it doesn't say how likely a slide is here, and no record nearby doesn't mean the ground is stable. Some parts of BC (the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, recent burn areas) are mapped in far more detail than others.

Each point mostly marks where a slide started. Debris can travel well past it, down a creek channel and onto the fan at the creek's mouth, so a lot on a fan or below a steep slope can be reached by a slide that began kilometres away. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary.

The kind of slide and its date are the database's own, mostly worked out from images, so treat them as a first look. Confirm with the local government, many of which have mapped steep-slope or debris-flow hazard areas, and with a geotechnical engineer.

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Fraser North

Homes tested here

108

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

None

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

143 of 1,817 homes (7.9%) at or above the guideline

Radon comes up from the ground and differs from one house to the next, even next door, so a regional figure says nothing certain about one home. The only way to know is a long-term test of at least 3 months. Health Canada's guideline is 200 Bq/m³ in the parts of a home where people spend more than 4 hours a day; above it, fix it within a year, and the higher the level, the sooner. For a home you buy, Health Canada suggests a long-term test once you've moved in.

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m

0

Open sites within 2 km

1

Closed sites within 2 km

1

Coquitlam 2 reserve (Kwikwetlem First Nation)

1.6 km from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way. Initial testing completed. Detailed testing underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00026863.

Coquitlam River at Port Coquitlam

190 m from the lot. Closed: no further action needed. Found or suspected: metals in soil. Confirmatory sampling completed. No further action required. Federal custodian: Environment and Climate Change Canada; site 00003170.

This inventory lists only contaminated sites on federal land or that the federal government is responsible for: military land, ports and harbours, airports, fisheries and research stations, reserve land, national parks and similar. Most contaminated sites in BC, such as old gas stations, dry cleaners and industrial land, are on the Province's Site Registry, which charges for searches and isn't shown here. Ask the seller what the land and its neighbours were used for; a Phase I environmental site assessment covers it properly.

Each site is one point given by its federal custodian, and a large site such as a base or an airport reaches well past it. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary to that point.

Closed means the custodian found no further action needed after testing, cleanup or risk management; it doesn't always mean nothing is left in the ground. The priority class is the federal ranking of its own sites for funding and action, not a measure of risk to neighbours.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

None recorded

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

None

Secured records in the wider area

Yes (location withheld by the CDC)

Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Federal critical habitat over the lot

None on the federal map

Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot

Not mapped here: the lot isn't covered by any of the Province's sensitive ecosystem inventories (checked 2026-10-11)

Invasive plants recorded on the lot

None on the Province's list

Invasive plants recorded within 100 m

None on the Province's list

CFIA regulated pest areas at the lot

Japanese beetle regulated area (2023 order): moving plants with soil, soil-related matter or growing media (such as peat moss or bark mulch) attached out of the area needs a CFIA movement certificate, year-round

Red-listed species are at risk of being lost from BC; Blue-listed are of special concern. A record shows where the species was found, sometimes decades ago; no record doesn't mean nothing lives here, since most land has never been surveyed.

The CDC hides the exact location of some sensitive species inside large blocks; it shares details with landowners and their consultants on request (cdcdata@gov.bc.ca).

Species at risk can still limit building through local environmental development permit areas: ask the local government before planning work.

Critical habitat for some sensitive species is kept off the public map; Environment and Climate Change Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry has each species' recovery strategy.

The Province's records come from invasive plant surveys, mostly since 2022, along roads, trails and shores and wherever crews were sent; no record doesn't mean no invasive plants. A record marks where a plant was found that day; it may since have been treated.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency re-issues these areas each year and its map can lag its pages: check the current boundaries on its Japanese beetle and emerald ash borer regulated areas pages (under Sources), and confirm with CFIA before moving plants, soil or wood out of an area. The rules are our summary of CFIA's pages, read 2026-10-13.

Nearest railway (2 km)

A main railway line (Cascade Subdivision, Canadian Pacific Kansas City), about 130 m from the lot line

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Lougheed Highway (Highway 7), a highway, about 520 m from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Light at night (within 1 km, 2024)

46 nW/cm²/sr, like a city's busy streets, as around downtown Kelowna or Kamloops (our reading); brighter than about 87% of BC's homes.

Aircraft accidents recorded within 2 km (since 1995)

1, per the Transportation Safety Board, in March 1995: a plane, its position given only to the nearest minute; TSB occurrence A95P0070.

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.

Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.

Light at night is what the VIIRS satellite records looking down at about 1:30 a.m., averaged over the cloud-free nights of 2024, with fires, the northern lights and other passing light left out (the Earth Observation Group's yearly composite); its cells are about 460 m by 300 m in BC. We give the median of the cells within 1 km of the lot's middle, in nanowatts per square centimetre per steradian (rounded to whole numbers), set against the same figure at BC's homes (Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points) and named after places that read alike (our reading). It is light going up, not how dark the sky looks from the ground: a nearby town's glow on the horizon, the moon, a neighbour's yard light and the trees aren't in it, and it says nothing of light at other hours. For stargazing, look at the sky from the lot on a clear, moonless night. This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nighttime Lights data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines.

Aircraft accidents are the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's record of occurrences it classes as accidents in BC since 1995, incidents left out. The TSB gives most positions to the nearest minute of latitude and longitude, up to about 1 km off, or at the aerodrome's own point, so an accident is counted when its given position is within 2 km of the lot line, and never placed on the lot. A count of past accidents, not a measure of risk or noise.

Community water

No open map of the City of Port Coquitlam's water service: ask the City of Port Coquitlam whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

1

Median depth

17 m

Median tested yield

–

Median water level below ground

–

Aquifer 70 under the lot

Coquitlam River: unconfined sand and gravel (medium stream system); productivity high, vulnerability high, demand low; 7 wells linked, median depth 30.5 m

Observation well 447

9 km from the lot's middle: water level stable or no clear trend over 2014 to 2023; stable or no clear trend over 2013 to 2023; water typically 7 m below ground in a well 26 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)

Groundwater tested 8 km away

At a sampled well, in aquifer 61: within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic under detection, fluoride under detection, manganese 0.00008, uranium under detection, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.002, lead 0.00002; manganese over the 0.02 mg/L taste and staining level in 1 of 6 samples; up to 6 samples, 2008 to 2011. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

Groundwater tested 9 km away

At the Province's observation well 447, in aquifer 61: manganese median 0.0779 mg/L, 1 of 5 samples over the 0.12 mg/L limit; within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic 0.00052, fluoride 0.042, uranium 0.00025, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.83, lead 0.00002; up to 5 samples, 2013 to 2016. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

Drinking-water protection zone

None over the lot on the Province's map (it holds only the zones a water system's protection plan has mapped, so many wells and intakes have none on it)

Water systems' wells and intakes within 300 m

None on the Province's list

Community watershed

None over the lot on the Province's map

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

Observation wells are the Province's monitoring wells, their water level measured for years or decades. The trend is the Province's reading of one well's yearly levels: a decline of 3 to 10 cm a year that the record clearly shows is a moderate rate, 10 cm or more a large one, anything not clear is stable or no clear trend. It shows how the aquifer has behaved there, not what a well on this lot will give; confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

These are samples of raw water, before any treatment, from wells in the Province's environmental monitoring records since 2000: its observation wells and groundwater surveys, water systems' wells and other drinking-water wells; wells at landfills, mines and permit holders' works are left out. A result below the lab's detection limit counts at that limit. Lead mostly comes from a well's pipes and fittings rather than the aquifer. Groundwater changes over short distances and with depth, so a nearby well says what the aquifer can hold, not what a well on this lot gives. Bacteria aren't shown: they depend on how each well is built and kept.

Health Canada's Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality set the most a drinking water should hold: arsenic 0.010 mg/L, fluoride 1.5 mg/L, manganese 0.12 mg/L (and 0.02 mg/L for taste and for staining laundry and fixtures), uranium 0.02 mg/L, nitrate 10 mg/L as nitrogen (45 mg/L as nitrate) and lead 0.005 mg/L, with arsenic and lead kept as low as reasonably achievable. Our summary of Health Canada's summary table, read 2026-10-11.

Test your own well, for bacteria and these, at an accredited lab; your health authority can say which labs take samples from private wells.

Community sewer

No open map of the City of Port Coquitlam's sewer service: ask the City of Port Coquitlam whether the lot is on it

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

None mapped

Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)

130 m² (36%)

Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)

130 m² (36%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

130 m² (36%)

Screening, not a site assessment: measured by us on the same elevation cells as the buildable area, against the separations in the Province's Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual: a field stays 30 m from a drinking-water well (60 to 90 m from a high-pumping one), 30 m from a lake, river or permanent stream (15 m from seasonal water and the sea), 7.5 m from a downslope drain or bank where effluent could break out, and, as a guideline, 3 m from the lot line. We use 30 m for every mapped stream. A gravity field isn't allowed on slopes over 15%, a mound or at-grade bed over 25%, and trenches over 45%.

Under the Sewerage System Regulation, only an Authorized Person (a Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner or a professional engineer or geoscientist) may plan and install a system, and they file the plans with the regional health authority before work starts. They dig test pits to check the soil depth and the seasonal water table and measure how fast the soil drains, which no open map shows. Ask the seller for the filing and maintenance records of an existing system, and have it inspected.

Well locations in GWELLS are often approximate, and many wells were never registered: look for well caps on and next to the lot. Wells, water lines and septic fields on the neighbours' land count too.

If the lot is on a community sewer, none of this applies; ask the local government, which may also set larger setbacks or a minimum lot size for septic.

Nearest hospital

Eagle Ridge Hospital, Port Moody: 3.8 km

Next nearest hospital

Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster: 9.1 km

Nearest emergency department

Eagle Ridge Hospital, Port Moody: 3.8 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Nearest children's emergency department

Surrey Memorial Hospital: 11 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Nearest walk-in clinic

MD Medical Clinic, Port Coquitlam: 600 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Tue 13:30 to 18:00, Thu 10:00 to 14:00. Walk-in service available on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Phone appointments available Mon - Fri. Note that hours are subject to physician availability and patient volume

Nearest pharmacy

Pharmasave, Port Coquitlam: 100 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 09:15 to 17:30, Sat 10:00 to 14:00

Nearest late-night or 24-hour pharmacy

Shoppers Drug Mart, Port Coquitlam: 300 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Sun 08:00 to 22:00

School catchment

Not mapped for this lot: catchments are shown only where the school district's boundaries are open data, for Surrey Schools (Surrey and White Rock) and the North Vancouver School District (the City and District of North Vancouver). Ask the school district which schools serve it.

Nearest public elementary school

Central Elementary, Port Coquitlam: 900 m

Nearest public secondary school

Ecole Riverside Secondary, Port Coquitlam: 1 km

Nearest public school with early French immersion

Ecole Riverside Secondary, Port Coquitlam: 1 km

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

des Pionniers-de-Maillardville, Port Coquitlam: 2.1 km

Independent schools within 10 km

19

Nearest licensed group child care

Bramblewood Montessori Child Care Center Ltd.: 300 m

Licensed group child care within 1 km

14: by the ages their operators list, 8 under 36 months, 4 for 30 months to 5 years and 1 school age (5 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed group child care within 2 km

47: by the ages their operators list, 21 under 36 months, 15 for 30 months to 5 years, 5 preschool and 4 school age (19 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

27, in the providers' homes

Nearest grocery store

City Avenue Market: 100 m

Grocery stores within 10 km

67

Nearest fire station

Port Coquitlam Fire & Emergency Services Hall 1: 2.2 km, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

Not said: we have no open hydrant map of the City of Port Coquitlam; ask its fire department where the nearest hydrant is

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 263, Coquitlam: 1.4 km

Nearest police detachment or station

Coquitlam RCMP: 2.5 km

Nearest community policing office

Port Coquitlam Community Policing: 2.1 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Happy Stan's Recovery Services (transfer station): 2.1 km

Nearest post office

Shaughnessy: 300 m

Postal area

V3C: an urban postal area: homes mostly get mail at the door or a community mailbox (our reading). The lot is near the area's edge, so its postal code may start differently.

Nearest gas station

Chevron: 300 m

Nearest Service BC office

Service BC - Surrey: 8 km

Nearest ferry terminal

Port Kells: 8.9 km. Crossings from it on OpenStreetMap: Barnston Island Ferry (Province of British Columbia)

Nearest airport with screened airline flights

Vancouver airport (YVR): 30 km

Nearest transit stop

Northbound Maple St @ Elgin Ave: 120 m, routes 173, 174 and 175; 116 departures on a weekday, 62 on Saturday, 53 on Sunday (TransLink's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Busiest stop within 500 m

Westbound Wilson Ave @ Mary Hill Rd: 320 m, routes 159, 160, 170, 173, 174, 175 and 188; 443 departures on a weekday, 302 on Saturday, 269 on Sunday (TransLink's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Transit stops within 500 m

19

Nearest park or protected area

Pinecone Burke Park, a provincial park: 5.5 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

None within 25 km on the Province's list

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us. The drive is longer, and much longer where the road winds, crosses water or takes a ferry.

Hospitals are from the Province's list; emergency departments and walk-in clinics from HealthLink BC's lists, with the hours they give. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and a small town's emergency department can close for a shift when it's short of staff: the health authority posts these as service changes, so check before you rely on one. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Which school a child goes to depends on the school district's catchment, not on distance: ask the district.

French programs are from the Ministry's school list. French immersion usually takes students by application or lottery, often with its own boundary, and the Conseil scolaire francophone's schools are for children whose parents have the right to French-language education: ask the district which applies.

Child care is from the Province's Child Care Map Data, listed October 13, 2026: licensed facilities the Province funds, so a licensed one without that funding, or a licence-not-required carer, isn't on it. The ages served and any space are what each operator reports, and many list no ages. A space reported weeks ago may be gone: ask the facility about spaces and wait lists.

The fee reduction is the Province's Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative (CCFRI): a facility taking part charges lower monthly fees for children up to kindergarten age (our summary).

Licensed family child care is in the provider's own home, so we count it but don't name or place it. It's counted on a grid of about 1 km, so the count near 2 km is approximate (our reading).

A fire station nearby doesn't mean it covers this lot: confirm the fire protection area with the local government. Insurers price fire cover by the road distance to the hall that responds and whether the lot is inside a fire protection area.

Insurers ask how far the house is from a hydrant as well as from the fire hall that responds: ask yours what distance it uses and what that does to the premium.

Fire halls, ambulance stations and police are from the Province's First Responders list (updated 2026-09-11), with fire stations it lacks added from OpenStreetMap. A hall that has moved may still be listed at its old address.

An ambulance station is where crews are based. How soon one arrives depends on where the crew is when the call comes.

A detachment is where police are based; it isn't always the force that covers the lot, and a community policing office is often volunteer-run with no officers on hand. Ask the local government which police serve the lot. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Pharmacies are from HealthLink BC's list, with the hours it gives: a few pharmacies are in clinics or programs for their own patients, and hours change, so call ahead.

Transit stops and departures are counted by us from BC Transit's and TransLink's published schedules for one week, leaving out the stop where a trip ends. A stop's distance is a straight line from the middle of the lot; the walk is longer. Service changes with the seasons: check the timetable before you count on a route.

Parks and recreation sites are measured in a straight line from the lot line. Conservancies, regional and municipal parks aren't on these lists. Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list doesn't say whether a site is open, closed or reachable this season: check its page before you go.

Ferry schedules, fares and reservations aren't shown. Check the operator (BC Ferries, or for an inland crossing the Ministry of Transportation and Transit's inland ferries page) before you count on a sailing: many routes run fewer sailings in winter.

Grocery stores, transfer stations, landfills, recycling depots, post offices, gas stations, ferry terminals, ferry crossings are from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers: one may be missing, closed or mapped in the wrong place, and a landfill may be closed without the map saying so (our reading).

The postal area is Statistics Canada's outline of where a postal code's first three characters are used, drawn from postal code points, so near its edge the lot may fall in the next one. It doesn't say how this lot's mail is delivered: ask Canada Post, and give a courier or online store the full postal code to see what they charge.

Airports with screened airline flights are the ones the CATSA Aerodrome Designation Regulations list, where the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority screens passengers, kept where OurAirports also lists scheduled flights (Dawson Creek is designated but has none listed). Smaller airports and floatplane bases with scheduled flights aren't screened and aren't on this list, so a nearer one may have flights: check with the airlines. Distances are straight lines; the drive, or a ferry, is longer.

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over fixed wireless

50/10 Mbps or faster

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

within about 1 km (about 100 m)

Data

ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026

Mobile carriers listed in the area around the lot (about 25 km²)

Bell and Telus (one shared network), Rogers, Freedom Mobile (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)

Nearest FM radio transmitter

CISF-FM, 107.7 MHz FM, 2 kW, at Surrey, about 10 km to the south-south-west; the bare ground doesn't block the line to it (our reading, terrain only)

Nearest TV transmitter

CBUT-DT, TV channel 35 (digital), 88.5 kW, at Vancouver, about 16 km to the north-west; the hills within 16 km don't block the line to it (our reading, terrain only)

Bell satellite TV dish sightline

82° W sits 22° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 22°; 91.1° W sits 26° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 26° (terrain only; our reading)

Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline

107.3° W sits 32° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 31°; 111.1° W sits 32° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 31° (terrain only; our reading)

Starlink: sky hidden by the hills

The hills stay under 20° all round, so terrain shouldn't block it (trees and buildings not counted; our reading)

This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.

Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.

A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.

Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.

Mobile carriers are those Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) lists for mobile service in its hexagon of about 25 km² holding the lot's middle; ISED counts LTE and 5G together and doesn't say how much of the hexagon a carrier covers, so a listed carrier may not reach the lot, the house or the valley floor. Cell tower positions aren't open data. Ask the carriers, or try a phone on site.

Broadcast transmitters are from ISED's Spectrum Management System extract: the nearest FM and TV transmitters in operation within 50 km of the lot's middle, with their effective radiated power. Whether the bare ground blocks the line is our reading on the elevation model the Winter sun section reads (out to 16 km round the lot; hills beyond it aren't counted); trees, buildings and an antenna's height on the house aren't, and reception also depends on power, distance and the receiver.

Satellite sightlines are our reading: each geostationary satellite's place in the sky from the lot's middle (Telesat's orbital slots, read 2026-10-13) set against the skyline the Winter sun section reads on NRCan's elevation model, in 72 directions out to 16 km. Trees and buildings, which most often decide whether a dish sees its satellite, aren't counted, and a dish can sit higher or elsewhere on the lot. Starlink asks for a clear view of the sky from about 20° above the horizon and picks its own direction: its app's obstruction check on site is the real test.

Nearest climate station at about the lot's elevation

Pitt Meadows, 9 km away

Station elevation

5 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

8 m

January mean temperature (1991-2020)

3.6 °C

July mean temperature (1991-2020)

18.8 °C

Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1991-2020)

1,649 mm*

Frost-free period (1991-2020)

201 days a year*

Average last spring frost (1991-2020)

April 11*

Average first fall frost (1991-2020)

October 30*

Lowest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

−16.3 °C (1996)

Days a year over 30 °C (1991-2020)

11 days, 0.5 days of them over 35 °C*

Highest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

37.6 °C (2009)

Wettest day recorded, 1991-2020

136.6 mm of rain and melted snow, October 16, 2003

Strongest gust recorded, 1991-2020

91 km/h, November 24, 1998; gusts of 90 km/h or more on under half a day a year*

Heating degree days, below 18 °C (1991-2020)

2,824 a year*

Growing degree days, above 5 °C (1991-2020)

2,266 a year; 1,077 above 10 °C*

Period

1991-2020

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

8b

By the 2050s, days a year over 30 °C (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

About 6 more days over 30 °C a year than in the same models' 1971-2000

By the 2050s, longest frost-free run (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

A longest frost-free run about 65 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000

By the 2050s, winter precipitation falling as snow (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

About 8 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow than in the same models' 1971-2000

Days with fine particles over BC's air objective level

A median of 3.5 days a year at the Port Moody Rocky Point Park station, 5.3 km away (2015 to 2025); the most was 12 days in 2017, most in August

Lightning near the lot (1998-2025 average)

A cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 4 days a year; 0.05 flashes per km² a year, more than at half of BC homes

Normals are 30-year averages at the station, not readings for this lot. In BC's mountains a few hundred metres of elevation, a north-facing slope or a lakeshore can change winters a lot: a hillside lot can be much colder and snowier than a valley station.

Burquitlam Vancouver Golf Course is nearer (7.1 km) but sits at 122 m, 114 m above the lot; we use Pitt Meadows because it is at about the lot's elevation.

The lot's elevation is our estimate from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model at the middle of the lot.

The hardiness zone is from Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map, read by us on a grid of about 2 to 3 km: near a zone's edge, or well above or below the valley around it, the lot may fall in the next zone. It is a guide to which plants survive the winter, not a frost date.

* Based on fewer years than the WMO standard: these figures rest on at least 20 or 15 of the 30 years, short of the World Meteorological Organization's standard of nearly all of them. ECCC publishes them as normals; treat them as a rougher guide.

The records are single days measured at the station: the most rain, snow and wind it saw in 1991-2020. Each is one event, not what to expect in a year, and the lot can get more or less than the station.

ECCC's 1991-2020 normals for this station don't include yearly snowfall or days with snow on the ground, so those are left out rather than guessed.

A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below or above a base, added up over the year. Heating degree days below 18 °C follow how much a home needs heating: a place with 5,000 needs roughly half again the heat of one with 3,300, for the same house. Growing degree days above 5 °C (10 °C for warm-season crops such as corn and grapes) follow how much warmth plants get to grow.

Model projections, not predictions of the weather: the median of 26 climate models downscaled by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (CanDCS-M6), for 2041-2070 under SSP2-4.5, a middle path for emissions. Each is given as the change from the same models' 1971-2000, not against a station's normals: in the mountains the models' figures can sit well off a valley station's, and the change between the two periods says more than either number. The frost-free run is the longest stretch of days with the low at or above 0 °C. The share of winter's precipitation falling as snow is our reading: each model's December to February snowfall over its precipitation, then the median across the models.

The models work on a grid of about 9 by 6 km, which averages valley floors with the slopes around them, so their own figures can sit well off a station's normals and aren't comparable with them. The models' own figures here, for setting against each other only: about 7 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 3 to 17 across the models), against about 1 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 285 days (range 260 to 310), against about 220; and about 6% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 4% to 8%), against about 14%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

Frost dates are averages: in about half of years the last spring frost comes later than the date shown, and frost pockets in hollows and valley bottoms get it later still.

At the Port Moody Rocky Point Park station, 5.3 km away, fine particles passed the level of BC's 24-hour objective (25 µg/m³) on a median of 3.5 days a year over the 10 years with a full record, 2015 to 2025; the most was 12 days in 2017, most of them in August. Most of these days fell from June to September, the wildfire season (our reading: mostly wildfire smoke).

The days are counted by us from the Province's verified hourly readings: a day counts when the station has 18 or more valid hours and their mean is over 25 µg/m³, the level of BC's Ambient Air Quality Objective for fine particles over 24 hours (the Province judges the objective itself on a year's 98th percentile of daily averages, not on single days), and a year counts when the station ran most of it, July to September included. They are the station's days, not this lot's: smoke drifts unevenly, and a lot up a valley or across a lake from the station can be clearer or smokier.

BC's air quality advisories and the Air Quality Health Index say what the air is like now; a HEPA filter and a home with a ventilation system that can recirculate help on smoky days.

Lightning is the Canadian Lightning Detection Network's cloud-to-ground flashes, averaged over 1998-2025, on Environment and Climate Change Canada's grid of 0.1 degrees (about 11 km north to south and 7 km east to west in BC): it is the area's lightning, not the lot's. A day counts when a flash fell in a grid cell whose middle is within 10 km of the middle of the lot's cell, by the Pacific standard time day (our reading); flashes per km² are for the lot's own cell. Set among BC's homes by Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points. Lightning starts fires and can damage a well pump, panels or wiring on high open ground; ask an electrician about surge protection.

Recent years have run warmer than the 1991-2020 averages in much of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.

Place

Port Coquitlam

In the taxable area

Yes

Rate, 2026

1% of the assessed value for Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 3% for foreign owners and untaxed worldwide earners (4% from 2027)

Declare by

March 31 each year, for the year before

The tax applies to property BC Assessment classes as residential; exemptions also cover a newly bought home in its first year, a home being built or rebuilt, a home reached only by water and over 100 m from a road, and a property assessed at $150,000 or less, among others. Every owner on title declares separately, each year, even when exempt. Confirm a given property with the Province's speculation and vacancy tax office.

Reserve and treaty lands, and islands reached only by air or water (Vancouver Island aside), are outside the taxable areas.

Local government

Port Coquitlam

Residential rate, 2026

3.7754 per $1,000

Municipal

2.1985 per $1,000

Regional district

0.0552 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

1.1248 per $1,000

Other

0.3969 per $1,000

BC municipalities' middle rate

6.24337 per $1,000

Your bill uses BC Assessment's value for the property, which can differ from its price, and may also include parcel taxes and utility fees (water, sewer, garbage) that aren't rates on value.

The home owner grant takes up to $570 off the bill of a home its owner lives in ($770 in the Province's northern and rural area in 2026, and up to $845, or $1,045 there, for seniors, veterans and people with a disability), for homes assessed at $2,075,000 or less in 2026; above that it shrinks by $5 for each $1,000. From 2027 the northern and rural extra ends and the regular grant is $570 everywhere. The owner applies each year, and must pay at least $350 in tax ($100 for the higher grant) after it.

Rates are set each May for the year; the next year's will differ.

Reported within 500 m, October 2025 to September 2026

30 (average Port Coquitlam lot 16)

Break & Enter - Business, within 500 m

15 (average 4.3)

Break & Enter - Residence, within 500 m

4 (average 1.3)

Theft from Auto, within 500 m

8 (average 8.2)

Theft of Auto, within 500 m

3 (average 2.1)

Police service

The Port Coquitlam RCMP (municipal)

Crime severity index, 2025

51 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

48 / 53 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

82 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

230 (BC 281)

Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

75 (BC 138)

Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

344 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

916 (BC 1,531)

All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025

4,259 (BC 6,943)

Reported to police and placed at the hundred block: a count says how much was reported on the streets around the lot, nothing about this property or the people in it.

Counted by us from Port Coquitlam's open data in the categories it publishes; other crimes, violent ones among them, aren't in it. The average is over 500 m circles around every titled lot in Port Coquitlam (23,111 in ParcelMap BC; each strata unit counts once), in the same months.

The Coquitlam RCMP publish an approximate point and street for each incident; we moved each to the middle of the hundred block of the nearest address (BC Address Geocoder).

1 of the 391 incidents Port Coquitlam published for these months had no block we could place; they aren't counted here or in the average.

The Port Coquitlam RCMP (municipal) reported a crime severity index of 51 in 2025, below BC's 92; down 38% since 2015 (BC unchanged).

The crime severity index weighs each offence by how serious it is (one assault counts for more than several thefts), with Canada in 2006 set at 100. Rates are per 100,000 people living in the police service's area, so places with many visitors, commuters or seasonal homes read high, and in small places a few incidents swing the figures a lot. These are crimes reported to police, not all crime.

Police calls to a particular address aren't published in BC (privacy law keeps police records about identifiable people closed), and neither is whether a home was used as a grow-op or drug lab: that shows up as a notice on the title. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.