Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Owners in Mount Pleasant value their homes 63% above the median of Alberta’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $650,000 in 2021, where the median of Alberta’s towns was $400,000. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Mount Pleasant. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $525,000. Mount Pleasant shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Calgary.
What Mount Pleasant’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. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $662K
- Owners
- 2,465
- 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
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.
Before 1961: 40% of the homes in Mount Pleasant, where Alberta’s towns have 5%
Of the 4,085 homes people lived in across Mount Pleasant at the 2021 census, 45% were single-detached houses. 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
| Mount Pleasant | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Building ahead of Alberta’s towns: 26.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Calgary, against 7.5
Calgary issued permits for 77,275 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 12,879 a year. The mix: 26% in single-unit buildings, beside 69% for Alberta’s towns. Figures for monthly permits are published for the Calgary metro area as a whole, not for Mount Pleasant alone.
Most in 2023: 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Level with the year before: 26,142 new homes to August 2026
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.
Mount Pleasant is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 63% above their $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 Mount Pleasant: Tuxedo Park, Highland Park and Winston Heights/Mountview
Next to Mount Pleasant: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | $650K | $662K | 61% | |
| Tuxedo Park | $512K | $553K | 46% | 1.1 |
| Highland Park | $500K | $501K | 35% | 1.3 |
| Winston Heights/Mountview | $600K | $587K | 56% | 1.6 |
| Capitol Hill | $604K | $658K | 49% | 1.7 |
| Rosedale | $900K | $1.06M | 63% | 1.8 |
| Crescent Heights | $552K | $580K | 40% | 2.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mount Pleasant
Is Mount Pleasant expensive for Alberta?
Yes: Mount Pleasant’s census median is above the $400,000 of Alberta’s towns.
How many households in Mount Pleasant are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 10% of households in Mount Pleasant, 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).