Overview

Dunbar-Southlands is a lower-density Vancouver neighbourhood where a vehicle is typically the primary way to get around, though the pay-off is space, quiet, and family-oriented housing stock. The Rentvoy composite lands at 31/100 — TransLink coverage is sparse (92 walkshed stops) so most households rely on a car. The average residential assessment in Dunbar-Southlands is about $3,550,443 — higher-than-median for Vancouver — which is useful context for rent expectations even though actual rent depends on unit type and building. Safety is held at a neutral 50 placeholder until VPD crime statistics become machine-readable; every other figure on this page is live open data.

Rentvoy rating: 31/100

Factor	Score	Source
Transit (walkshed)	34/100	TransLink stops per km² within polygon + 400m buffer
Amenities	26/100	Parks + schools + rec + attractions per km², polygon + 1 km walkshed
Walkability	36/100	Road intersection density (78.71/km²)
Green space	18/100	Park area / neighbourhood area (5% coverage)
Safety	50/100	VPD crime stats (placeholder — see below)

Property values in Dunbar-Southlands sit in the higher-than-median band citywide (avg assessed value $3,550,443). Value data is shown as context, not mixed into the rating — it's an ownership figure, not rent.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the average assessed property value in Dunbar-Southlands?

The City of Vancouver's most recent residential property assessment shows an average assessed value of $3,550,443 for Dunbar-Southlands — in the higher-than-median band citywide. Property assessment reflects ownership costs, not rent; actual monthly rent varies by unit type, building, and availability.

How is transit in Dunbar-Southlands?

Dunbar-Southlands has 57 TransLink stops inside the neighbourhood polygon and 92 stops total within a 400m walkshed (5-minute walk of the boundary). Spread over the 16.085 km² that walkshed covers, that is 5.72 stops per km², for a transit sub-score of 34/100 against a saturation of 17 stops/km². The score uses the density rather than the raw count so that a large neighbourhood is not credited for stops nobody can walk to from any one address.

What is walkable from Dunbar-Southlands?

Within 1 km of the neighbourhood we count 18 parks, 13 schools, 1 recreation facilities, and 2 attractions — 34 walkable points of interest in total, or 1.15 per km² across the 29.693 km² that walkshed covers. That density gives an amenities sub-score of 26/100.

How walkable is Dunbar-Southlands?

Dunbar-Southlands has 651 road intersections across 8.27 km² — a density of 78.71 intersections per km². That drives a walkability sub-score of 36/100, benchmarked against a saturation of 220 intersections/km² (dense routable grid). Intersection density is a standard proxy for walkable block size.

How much green space does Dunbar-Southlands have?

About 5% of Dunbar-Southlands's land area is covered by parks (0.375 km² of park inside a 8.27 km² neighborhood, based on the City of Vancouver parks dataset). That produces a green space sub-score of 18/100, benchmarked against 25% coverage as saturation — neighborhoods above that are effectively park-first environments with residential woven through.

Is Dunbar-Southlands a good place to rent?

Rentvoy's composite rating for Dunbar-Southlands is 31/100, blending walkshed transit (25%), walkable amenities (25%), walkability from intersection density (20%), green space coverage (20%), and safety (10%, neutral placeholder pending VPD crime data). Individual priorities vary — use the rating breakdown to see which factors align with your needs.

Data transparency

Rentvoy's Dunbar-Southlands rating is deterministic — every figure on this page comes from the City of Vancouver Open Data Portal and is recomputed when the underlying data refreshes. No subjective weighting is applied on top of the published formula.

Why densities, not counts: transit and amenity sub-scores divide by the area their walkshed actually covers. Counting alone would rank a neighbourhood highly for being large — a 400 m walkshed around a 5 km² polygon sweeps up three times the bus stops of one around a 1.6 km² polygon, for exactly the same walk from any front door. The raw counts are still printed above, because they are the honest answer to "how many are there"; the score answers "how close together".

What's not in the score yet: The Vancouver Police Department publishes incident-level crime data, but it is geocoded to the block face and offered under a licence that requires per-use agreement rather than as an open feed we can re-read on every refresh, so our safety sub-score holds a neutral 50 placeholder. This is called out on every neighbourhood page so readers can factor it in. When VPD publishes an open JSON or CSV feed we can re-read on every refresh, we'll replace the placeholder and regenerate every page in a single ingest pass.

What property value means here: The average assessment figure is an ownership-cost proxy, not rent. It's included as context because expensive-to-own neighborhoods typically rent higher, but actual rent in Dunbar-Southlands varies widely by building, unit size, and availability. Live listings will always reflect the real number.

Data sources

Data snapshot: 2026-08-30. Rentvoy combines City of Vancouver open data with live listings on our platform.

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