Photo: Iamjforlife · CC BY-SA 3.068% of Downtown West End’s homes have been built since 2001, against 24% for Alberta’s towns
A median of $400,000 and a mean of $391,627: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Downtown West End.
Two ways to price a home in Downtown West End
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Downtown West End doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $392K
- Owners
- 590
- 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).
Calgary’s detached houses are assessed 88% above the median of Alberta’s towns
Assessors listed 483,605 residential properties in Calgary for 2024, 62% of them detached houses and 18% condos.
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.
Apartments are 100% of Downtown West End’s homes, against 14% for Alberta’s towns
People lived in 1,620 homes in Downtown West End at the 2021 census. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Downtown West End | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 93% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 14% | 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.
Calgary permitted 26.6 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Building permits added 77,275 homes in Calgary between 2018 and 2023: some 12,879 a year. 26% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 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: one figure for all of the Calgary metro area
Downtown West End sits near the middle of Alberta’s towns ($400,000)
478 of Alberta’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Downtown West End: Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Lower Mount Royal
The places around Downtown West End at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown West End | $400K | $392K | 36% | |
| Downtown Commercial Core | $240K | $326K | 9% | 0.9 |
| Beltline | $324K | $354K | 26% | 1 |
| Hillhurst | $750K | $796K | 56% | 1.1 |
| Lower Mount Royal | $348K | $420K | 29% | 1.2 |
| Sunnyside | $572K | $580K | 29% | 1.2 |
| Sunalta | $532K | $662K | 34% | 1.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Downtown West End
How many households in Downtown West End are in core housing need?
More than most: 14% of households in Downtown West End, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%.
Is Downtown West End expensive for Alberta?
Downtown West End is close to the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000.
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).