Neighbourhoods: Surrey

Port Moody Dept: Port Moody, Coquitlam and Surrey were the fastest-growing communities in the 2011 census, with some neighbourhoods in those cities doubling or tripling their population between 2006 and 2011, according to data released Wednesday, according to Vancouver Sun. While growth was more vigorous than expected in the Tri-Cities, it is consistent with the regional growth strategy, which calls for development to be centred along transit corridors and town centres and metro Vancouver continues to lure new migrants and suck residents from B.C's rural towns, but it appears most people are skipping Vancouver in favour of settling in the Tri-Cities or neighbourhoods south of the Fraser. Port Moody experienced 19.9-per-cent growth during this five-year period, followed by Surrey with 18.6 per cent. Vancouver's growth rate, meanwhile, sat at 4.4 per cent, with population increases concentrated in its downtown core, Mount Pleasant and Fairview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.