Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0In Currie Barracks, 39% of households live in an apartment (Alberta’s towns: 14%)
A median of $628,000 and a mean of $600,607: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Currie Barracks. Assessors valued the median residential property at $525,000 for 2024. Currie Barracks doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.
Two ways to price a home in Currie Barracks
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $601K
- Owners
- 1,515
- Alberta’s towns
- $400K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Alberta’s towns
- $297K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Houses in Calgary carry assessments 88% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
In 2024, Calgary had 483,605 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 62% of them and condos 18%.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of Alberta’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
More condos than most: 50% of the homes in Currie Barracks (Alberta’s towns: 15%)
Currie Barracks had 3,110 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Most went up after 2000. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Currie Barracks | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 50% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 12% | 8% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
26.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Calgary: more than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
Building permits added 77,275 homes in Calgary between 2018 and 2023: some 12,879 a year. The mix: 26% in single-unit buildings, beside 69% for Alberta’s towns.
The busiest year: 2023, with 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
26,142 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, about as many as the year before
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021. · Monthly permits published for the Calgary metro area, not by town
Currie Barracks is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 57% above their $400,000 median
The census values of Alberta’s towns, 478 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Currie Barracks: Glamorgan and Glenbrook
The places around Currie Barracks at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currie Barracks | $628K | $601K | 49% | |
| Garrison Woods | $600K | $631K | 77% | 1.5 |
| Glamorgan | $400K | $441K | 55% | 1.5 |
| Lakeview | $670K | $839K | 75% | 2 |
| Altadore | $860K | $940K | 70% | 2.2 |
| Glenbrook | $524K | $507K | 60% | 2.5 |
| Richmond | $690K | $660K | 62% | 2.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Currie Barracks
Is Currie Barracks expensive for Alberta?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Currie Barracks’s is worth more.
How many households in Currie Barracks are in core housing need?
More than most: 12% of households in Currie Barracks, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).