Photo: Gabriil Yanofsky · CC BY 4.0Homes built before 1961 make up 35% of Highland Park, against 5% for Alberta’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $500,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $501,132. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up. For Highland Park there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta.
Two ways to price a home in Highland Park
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Alberta’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Nobody publishes assessed values, values by property type and building permits for Highland Park alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Calgary.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $501K
- Owners
- 795
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Calgary’s houses sit 88% above Alberta’s towns
Detached houses account for 62% of the 483,605 properties on Calgary’s 2024 roll; condos for 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.
37% of Highland Park lives in apartments, where Alberta’s towns have 14%
The 2021 census counted 2,310 occupied homes in Highland Park. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Highland Park | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 17% | 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)
Some 12,879 homes a year: 77,275 in all were permitted in Calgary from 2018 to 2023. 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
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Calgary metro area
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.
Highland Park against Alberta’s towns: 25% over the $400,000 median
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 Highland Park: Thorncliffe
The places around Highland Park at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Park | $500K | $501K | 35% | |
| Mount Pleasant | $650K | $662K | 61% | 1.3 |
| Tuxedo Park | $512K | $553K | 46% | 1.4 |
| Winston Heights/Mountview | $600K | $587K | 56% | 1.5 |
| Thorncliffe | $460K | $452K | 61% | 1.8 |
| Capitol Hill | $604K | $658K | 49% | 2.9 |
| Renfrew | $552K | $575K | 57% | 3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Highland Park
How many households in Highland Park are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 17% of Highland Park’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Highland Park expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Highland Park ranks among the dearer of Alberta’s towns (median $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).