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Maple Ridge is a city in British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the northeastern section of Greater Vancouver between the Fraser River and the Golden Ears, which is a group of mountain summits which are the southernmost of the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains. Maple Ridge's population in 2021 was 90,990. Its downtown core area was once known as Haney.

Maple Ridge was incorporated as a district municipality on September 12, 1874. It covered an area of yet was home to only approximately 50 families. Maple Ridge is British Columbia's fifth oldest municipality (after New Westminster, Victoria, Langley, and Chilliwack). From the creation of British Columbia's regional districts in 1965 until the expansion of Metro Vancouver in 1995, it was part of the now defunct Dewdney Alouette Regional District with the City of Pitt Meadows and District of Mission and other north side communities east to Chehalis. Maple Ridge has been part of Metro Vancouver since 1995. On March 26, 2014, Maple Ridge residents voted to change the community's status from district municipality to city. Subsequently, Maple Ridge Council submitted its request for status change to the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development. The status change became official on September 12, 2014,

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Maple Ridge had a population of 90,990 living in 33,103 of its 34,254 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 82,256. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

+ Panethnic groups in the City of Maple Ridge (2001–2021)Panethnicgroup2021201120062001Pop. (Population)% (percentage)Pop. (Population)% (percentage)Pop. (Population)% (percentage)Pop. (Population)% (percentage)Pop. (Population)% (percentage) European 66,230 73.70 65,040 80.33 63,550 84.58 58,970 86.52 55,795 89.44 East Asian 5,225 5.81 3,750 4.63 2,800 3.73 2,545 3.73 1,760 2.82 South Asian 4,245 4.72 2,480 3.06 1,785 2.38 1,675 2.46 1,375 2.20 Indigenous 4,205 4.68 3,815 4.71 2,695 3.59 1,870 2.74 1,555 2.49 Southeast Asian 3,870 4.31 2,515 3.11 1,960 2.61 1,365 2.00 550 0.88 Middle Eastern 2,265 2.52 900 1.11 465 0.62 360 0.53 250 0.40 African 1,440 1.60 945 1.17 940 1.25 695 1.02 635 1.02 Latin American 1,310 1.46 875 1.08 480 0.64 385 0.56 200 0.32 Other 1,075 1.20 660 0.82 470 0.63 290 0.43 255 0.41 Total responses 89,860 98.76 80,970 98.44 75,140 98.80 68,160 98.86 62,380 98.75 Total population 90,990 100.00 82,256 100.00 76,052 100.00 68,949 100.00 63,169 100.00
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

78.5% of residents spoke English as their mother tongue in 2021. The next most common first languages were Chinese languages (2.5%), Punjabi (1.5%), Tagalog (1.5%), Persian (1.5%), Spanish (1.2%), Korean (1.1%), French (1.0%). 2.2% of residents listed both English and a non official language as mother tongues.

Early settlers in Maple Ridge engaged in forestry and agriculture. Forestry companies continue to be the largest private sector employers in the district. They include Interfor and companies that manufacture building materials, yachts and poles. Maple Ridge hosted the only North American high volume manufacturer of lithium ion batteries, E One Moli Energy. However, the factory suffered major layoffs due to the 2008 recession and now only hosts a small product testing team. The city of Maple Ridge has become a popular location for feature films and television series. The Ridge Film Studios is located downtown, in an old retail space, and serves as a set location for episodic television programs. Maple Ridge's film roots go back to the 1970s, when scenes for the feature film Rambo were shot here. Over time the city has been a background for a number of films and television series, including The X Files, Bordertown, Smallville, Bird on a Wire, We're No Angels, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Stargate SG 1. In recent months the old Bordertown set was featured in an episode of the WB series Legends of Tomorrow. The city is currently working to zone new commercial and industrial lands in order to expand local employment opportunities.

Maple Ridge is the hometown of several athletes such as baseball players Larry Walker and Tyler O’Neill, deceased race car driver Greg Moore, and hockey players Cam Neely, Brendan Morrison, Brad Hunt and Andrew Ladd.

Translink provides public transit services to Maple Ridge, via buses and the West Coast Express. Haney Place Exchange is the main bus exchange, with every bus line in Maple Ridge stopping here at some point along its route. Maple Ridge is connected via Highway 7 to Pitt Meadows in the west and Mission in the east, and also by the Dewdney Trunk Road, a more northerly route which crosses into Mission via the community of Stave Falls. The Golden Ears Bridge connects Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to Langley. The Pitt Meadows Regional Airport is the only Fraser Valley airport (other than water airports) located on the Fraser River's north side. It is located east of the confluence of the Pitt and Fraser rivers, and serves the area north of the Fraser River from Mission up to and including Vancouver.