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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 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

Top election issues - Nov 2005

As an insight into Maple Ridge the Vancouver Sun featured the top three issues in the local elections in November of 2005.

1. URBAN PRESSURE

How this rural community will cope with urban pressures and where that pressure will be directed is probably the major bone of contention in this election. Should development be into areas already set aside for development in the GVRD’s Livable Regional plan or should Maple Ridge open up new areas. No one is sure how Maple Ridge would go about removing green zone areas from the GVRD plan.

2. HANEY

The commercial and residential development of Haney is also a major issue as Haney has the capacity to house many more people and develop a shopping district that might convince locals to stay at home instead of travelling to shopping centres in Langley or Coquitlam.

3. SERVICES

The municipality’s growing population is putting pressure on police and fire department services and the spread of marijuana-growing operations has residents concerned about law and order issues which candidates have noted for attention. Adding extra officers to the police department and bringing in more full-time firefighters is on many people’s minds.

Courtesy of the Vancouver Sun - November 9th, 2005

Transport

Maple Ridge is served by the West Coast Express.

http://www.westcoastexpress.com/

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

Crime

As a rough guide to the crime rate in Maple Ridge, the following table shows the number of criminal code offences per officer, excluding traffic offences. It compares communities with RCMP detachments, so does not include cities with their own municipal police forces (i.e. New Westminster,Vancouver,Port Moody,Delta and West Vancouver).

Community	No. of crimes per officer
Langley City	127
Maple Ridge	125
Port Coquitlam	123
Coquitlam	118
Surrey	117
Burnaby	105
Langley Township	101
North Vancouver City	85
White Rock	84
Pitt Meadows	82
Richmond	77
North Vancouver District	62

Municipal Police Departments	No. of crimes per officer
New Westminster	87
Vancouver	65
Port Moody	53
Delta	51
West Vancouver	44

Note that case burdens in RCMP detachments are not directly comparable to those in municipal police departments because detachments receive significant administrative and operational support from “E” Division, the provincial RCMP unit.

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 - VancouverForHomes.com:

Benchmark Prices: Maple Ridge as at December 2008
Category	Benchmark $	1 Yr Change	3 Yr Change
Detached	$394,893	-9.70%	5.60%
Attached	$300,497	-3.00%	25.20%
Apartment	$220,481	-13.00%	18.70%
Source:Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver - MLS ®

We can supply more detailed housing information on request, including regular updates and individual listings. Just e-mail us.

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Links:

• District of Maple Ridge
• Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows Chamber of Commerce
• Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows photo gallery
• Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows school district 42
• Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
• Maple Ridge News
• Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows Times newspaper