Vancouver blogger Chad Skelton — aka “Papai Curioso” – has an interesting series of posts about which neighborhoods in Vancouver são o lar de mais bebês, preschoolers, e elementary school kids.

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

Mas 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 Pôr do sol, o bolso entre Ontário e Streets Cavaleiro, entre E. 41ª Avenida eo Rio Fraser.

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

O topo 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. Pôr do sol: 8.8% (leste)
2. Dunbar-Southlands: 8.7% (oeste)
3. Killarney: 7.7% (leste)
4. Kensington-Cedar Cottage: 7.7% (leste)
5. Shaughnessy: 7.5% (oeste)
6. West Point Cinza: 7.5% (oeste)
7. Hastings-Sunrise: 7.5% (leste)
8. Renfrew-Collingwood: 7.4% (leste)
9. Arbutus-Ridge: 7.4% (oeste)
10. Kerrisdale: 7.3% (oeste)

The areas with the fewest school-age kids? Fairview ao longo Sudeste False Creek (2.7%); Centro da cidade, including the rapidly developing Coal Harbour community (2.6%); e West End (1.7%).

Foto por D. Sharon Pruitt (Flickr)