Photo: Dwayne Reilander · CC BY-SA 4.0Calgary is adding housing quickly, at 26.6 new homes a year per 1,000 (Alberta’s towns: 7.5)
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $456,000, the average one $519,500. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Calgary.
What Calgary’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $520K
- Owners
- 345,680
- 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).
A detached house in Calgary is assessed 88% higher than across Alberta’s towns
Of Calgary’s 483,605 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 62% are detached houses and 18% are 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.
A younger stock than most: 38% of Calgary’s homes went up after 2000 (Alberta’s towns: 24%)
502,305 occupied homes stood in Calgary in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 55% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Calgary | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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.
Permits in Calgary peaked in 2023: 18,187 new homes
Some 12,879 homes a year: 77,275 in all were permitted in Calgary from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 26%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Steady: 26,142 new homes in the year to August 2026
Monthly permits for 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.
Calgary against Alberta’s towns: 14% over the $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 Calgary: Beltline, Mission and Downtown Commercial Core
The places around Calgary at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary | $456K | $520K | 69% | |
| Beltline | $324K | $354K | 26% | 0.7 |
| Mission | $348K | $513K | 31% | 0.9 |
| Downtown Commercial Core | $240K | $326K | 9% | 1.1 |
| Eau Claire | $628K | $771K | 45% | 1.3 |
| Downtown East Village | $400K | $442K | 26% | 1.3 |
| Lower Mount Royal | $348K | $420K | 29% | 1.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Calgary
How many households in Calgary are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 10% of Calgary’s households in core housing need, much as for Alberta’s towns (8%).
Is Calgary expensive for Alberta?
Yes: Calgary’s census median is above the $400,000 of Alberta’s towns.
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).