Briar Hill–Belgravia is part of the larger Fairbank neighbourhood. The neighbourhood has many rolling hills and steep, climbing streets. Most of the neighbourhood as it exists today was planned in the interwar years (1920s & 1930s) with mostly small single family 2 and 1.5 storey detached homes on north-south residential streets. More than half of the immigrant population of Briar Hill-Belgravia arrived after 1981, with a majority of immigrants in 1996 and 2001 arriving from the Philippines.