Point Grey, British Columbia

The Township of Point Grey and the University Endowment Lands, colloquially known as just Point Grey, is a lower-tier municipality in the Lower Mainland, BC, bordering the cities of Vancouver and Kerrisdale to the east and the Georgia Strait to the west. The municipality is the location of the main campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC), which is the mainstay of its economy: almost 25% of residents are university students or faculty, and a significant portion of the city's workforce is employed by the university or corporations and organizations providing services to the university. Point Grey has a permanent population of 155,623 according to the 2016 census, which includes university students living on-campus or in Point Grey's off-campus student housing. Its daytime population, however, regularly exceeds 500,000, mostly accounted for by students living off-campus in Vancouver or other Lower Mainland cities who commute daily to UBC, as well as commuting university employees and commuting employees of other local businesses; the University of British Columbia's Point Grey Campus alone has over 405,000 enrolled students, and it is not the only post-secondary educational institution in the area.