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Delta
From Ladner Village’s historic streets to the boardwalks of Burns Bog and the shores of Boundary Bay, Delta has more than one story to tell. Explore its neighbourhoods, landmarks and home styles, then find the plumbing service you need with The Crazy Plumber.
Legend
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Pins I to III match the landmark plates; the dashed line is the city boundary. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Location Landmarks
Three familiar places. Three different stories. Explore a heritage hall, a sanctuary on the water and an airfield with wartime roots.
Delta Municipal Hall
In 1983, the 1912 hall was designated a municipal heritage building.
George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
On May 24, 1987, the sanctuary was designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance.
Boundary Bay Airport
On December 5, 1997, Transport Canada transferred Boundary Bay Airport to Delta.
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Licence
TSBC Licence # LGA0213328
Better Business Bureau
Accredited · A+ ratingGoogle reviews
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Founded
June 2023, Port Coquitlam
Estimates
Free estimates
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Location Data
See how Delta grew, what kinds of homes it has, how old they are and who calls it home. Explore five views of the 2021 Census.
Residents
108,455
Earlier census
102,238
Census year
2021
Comparison year
2016
People per square kilometre
603.7
Land area (km²)
179.7
Private dwellings
39,736
Occupied by usual residents
38,058
Average household size
2.8
Households of one person (%)
20.5
Median age in years
44.0
Ages 0 to 14 (%)
15.1
Ages 15 to 64 (%)
64.3
Ages 65 and over (%)
20.5
Average age in years
42.9
Ages 85 and over (%)
2.4
Single-detached (%)
55.5
Apartments, 5 or more storeys (%)
1.6
All other home types (%)
42.8
Households that own (%)
75.6
Households that rent (%)
24.4
Median home value, owner-estimated
$1,190,000
Built 1981 to 2000 (%)
28.0
Homes built 1981 to 2000
10,645
Built before 1981 (%)
53.6
Built 2001 to 2021 (%)
18.4
Needing major repairs (%)
5.1
Homes needing major repairs
1,945
Historical Timeline
A dyke on the bay, an island of industry and a tunnel under the river. Explore three turning points that helped shape Delta.
1892
Holding back the tide
East Delta farmers built the first municipal dyke along Boundary Bay in 1892. Protecting low-lying land from the tides helped agricultural settlement take hold on the western shore of the bay.
1953
An island goes to work
UK firm Grosvenor purchased the 1,200-acre Annacis Island, and development began in 1953. The site opened three years later as Canada’s first master-planned industrial park.
1959
A tunnel under the river
The Deas Island Tunnel opened to traffic on May 23, 1959, replacing the ferry service between Ladner and Richmond. It was renamed the George Massey Tunnel in 1967, after the MLA who campaigned for a permanent crossing.
Neighbourhoods
Explore three different sides of Delta: Ladner, North Delta and Tsawwassen. Choose a neighbourhood to see its homes, streets and setting.
Regional key
Fraser Valley
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Ladner
Delta’s historic administrative centre, which grew from Ladner’s Landing near the Fraser River.
Homes
Village homes and river living
Ladner Village has surviving homes built mainly in the 1930s, alongside mid-century and newer apartments. Housing forms also include floating homes, townhouses, ranches and rural estates.
Streets
A village laid out by survey
Donald Chisholm surveyed the townsite in the 1880s, and Chisholm Street carries his name. The village core is known for the Ladner Village Market and its historic streetscapes.
Setting
Between river and strait
Ladner sits between the Fraser River to the north and the Strait of Georgia to the west.
North Delta
Delta’s most populous community, first settled as Annieville by Norwegian fishing families in the 1890s.
Homes
A mix of suburban forms
Mid-century ranchers and basement-entry homes appear in Annieville, with large-lot split-levels in Sunshine Hills and master-planned townhomes at Sunstone.
Streets
A corridor on Scott Road
North Delta holds about half of Delta’s retail jobs, with centres such as Scottsdale Centre. The 2024 Official Community Plan focuses growth on the North Delta Social Heart and the Scott Road corridor.
Setting
Canneries on the river
Fish processing shaped early life along River Road, where St. Mungo Cannery opened in 1899.
Tsawwassen
A peninsula community in southwest Delta, bounded by the Strait of Georgia, Boundary Bay and Point Roberts.
Homes
From waterfront ranches to cottages
Housing includes mid-century waterfront ranches, split-level homes, golf course strata houses, condominiums and farmhouse-style cottages in Southlands.
Streets
Growth after the tunnel
Suburban subdivision followed the 1959 Deas Island Tunnel. Tsawwassen Shopping Centre opened at 12th Avenue and 56th Street in 1958, and 56th Street is still the only road to Point Roberts.
Setting
A peninsula with height
Elevations range from below sea level to 70 metres along the 49th parallel.
Builders and Developers
Meet two builders whose work helped shape Delta. Follow each story from the land to buildings and the places people recognise today.
The Hodgins family
Material
Land near a new crossing.
George Hodgins founded Century Group in South Delta in 1957, the same year construction began on what is now the George Massey Tunnel. His son, Sean Hodgins, now leads the company.
Building
A mall plan goes to council.
Century Group proposed redeveloping Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall with homes over shops and a new public library. In October 2025, Delta council unanimously rejected a revised version of the plan.
Community
A farm-focused neighbourhood.
On land acquired in December 1989 at Delta’s southern edge, next to the US border, the company is building Southlands, a 217-hectare community planned for about 950 homes. Its Courtyard Cottages won a 2023 Georgie Award.
The Elsom lands and Sunstone
Material
Gravel gives way to homes.
Dennis Elsom was president of Delsom Estates, whose lands cover about 40 hectares on either side of Nordel Way at 84 Avenue. Gravel extraction on most of the site ended in the late 1970s.
Building
A master plan takes shape.
In 2005 Delta added a neighbourhood plan for the Delsom lands, named Sunstone Ridge, to its Official Community Plan. A 2006 application proposed about 850 homes: 180 single family homes, 600 townhouses and 70 seniors apartments.
Community
A field for the neighbourhood.
The Delsom estate agreed to a $5 million contribution: $3.5 million for a synthetic turf field at North Delta Community Park and $1.5 million for a public amenity building. The field is named for Dennis Elsom.
Styles of Homes
Recognise that roofline? Choose a home style, then explore the details that connect it with Delta.
1905 to the 1930s
Craftsman on River Road
Along River Road in Annieville and Sunbury, Norwegian settlers built Craftsman homes with open front verandahs and decorative brackets.
The roof tells a story
Triangular eave brackets and shed dormers are common details. The Stegavik Residence at 10670 River Road, from about 1913, shows both.
An entrance worth noticing
The Iverson Residence at 11090 River Road, from about 1913, has a front verandah, a side entry porch and leaded glass windows.
Made from wood
Lapped wood siding and shingles cover many of these homes. The nearby Larsen Residence was built by Pete Peterson from a single tree on the site.
1965 to 1985
Living above the entrance
After the Deas Island Tunnel opened in 1959, suburban homes spread across Delta. Basement-entry homes and their BC Box and Vancouver Special relatives became familiar forms.
Read the front
Decorative brick on the ground-floor front, with stucco above, is a common pairing under a very shallow-pitched roof.
Start at ground level
The front door is usually set to one side, which made many of these homes easy to divide into upper and lower units. The shape alone does not confirm a suite.
A form, not a census category
Construction-era totals include many home styles. They should not be presented as counts of basement-entry homes.
2000s onward
Neighbourhoods planned together
Newer master-planned neighbourhoods in Delta are zoned and laid out as a whole. Southlands in Tsawwassen is planned for about 950 homes at build-out.
Homes around a courtyard
Southlands cottage courtyards cluster small houses around a shared, landscaped courtyard, so residents walk through the common space to reach their front doors.
Townhomes by the fairway
At Tsawwassen Springs, a final phase of 60 townhouses needed an Agricultural Land Reserve exclusion and a regional growth strategy amendment before returning to Delta council.
Guided by one plan
Most of Southlands is covered by a development permit area that sets form and character guidelines for its commercial and multi-family buildings.