A profile of Maple Ridge as a destination for immigrants to British Columbia

Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge is a fast growing community with many unique features. As part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District it enjoys the benefits of being part of Vancouver, only a 30-60 minute drive away(45 Kms), while retaining its small town feel, surrounded by farmland.

Alouette Lake, near Maple Ridge Alouette LakeMaple Ridge has a moderate coastal climate with little seasonal variations in temperature. The mean annual air temperature in the District is approximately 10° C and the mean daily temperatures for January and July are 1.8° C and 17.5° C respectively.

The district gets between 164 to 195 cm of precipitation a year, mostly as rain. Monthly rainfalls generally reach a maximum in December while minimums occur primarily in July.

Golden Ears Provincial Park is 7 miles north of Maple Ridge. See BC parks web site

Transport

Maple Ridge benefits by being on a surburban commuter train line - the West Coast Express.

http://www.westcoastexpress.com/

This is a service that runs in peak hours only, with 5 trains into the city in the morning (approx 50 minute journey) and 5 back in the evening. There are additional train-bus services too, but you may need to consider alternative transport if you work irregular hours.

Commuting times

This table is extracted from the Summary and Results of the 2003 Greater Vancouver Travel Times Survey by the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority.

It looks at the average travel times and speeds during peak hours and at midday. The journeys shown are all from Maple Ridge.

Destination	Avg Travel Times	Avg Travel Speeds km/h
AM Peak Period
North Vancouver	70	38
Vancouver	68	38
UBC	94	34
SFU	41	49
Metrotown	55	39
New Westminster	47	36
Coquitlam Centre	31	32
Richmond	83	37
Tsawwassen	99	40
Surrey Central	41	44
Langley City	61	47
Abbotsford	69	49
Midday
North Vancouver	55	46
Vancouver	55	45
UBC	66	40
SFU	39	51
Metrotown	37	56
New Westminster	37	46
Coquitlam Centre	25	40
Richmond	67	47
Tsawwassen	69	58
Surrey Central	37	50
Langley City	57	51
Abbotsford	46	74
PM Peak Period
North Vancouver	65	40
Vancouver	59	41
UBC	63	49
SFU	48	42
Metrotown	43	49
New Westminster	39	42
Coquitlam Centre	29	34
Richmond	87	38
Tsawwassen	95	51
Surrey Central	45	42
Langley City	71	41
Abbotsford	58	58

House Prices

Below is a table showing the Benchmark prices for typical homes, apartments and townhouses in Maple Ridge. This comes from the Vancouver Real Estate Board’s monthly statistics. More real estate information is available directly from us or our real estate site - gr8team.com:

Benchmark Prices: Maple Ridge as at August 2010
Category	Benchmark $	1 Yr Change	3 Yr Change
Attached	$303,472	1.70%	-1.90%
Detached	$445,092	3.30%	-1.10%
Apartment	$245,477	4.70%	-3.00%
Source:Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver - MLS ®