Since 2001, Nolan Hill has built 98% of the homes it has today; Alberta’s towns, 24%
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $540,000; averaged, their homes came to $537,597. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Nolan Hill.
Nolan Hill’s homes, by two sources
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $538K
- Owners
- 2,210
- 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). · Area-wide: assessed values, values by property type and building permits, counted over the city of Calgary
Houses in Calgary carry assessments 88% over the middle 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.
More condos than most: 25% of the homes in Nolan Hill (Alberta’s towns: 15%)
2,650 occupied homes stood in Nolan Hill in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 71% of them. 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
| Nolan Hill | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | under 1% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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 ran at 26.6 homes a year per 1,000, where Alberta’s towns ran at 7.5
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.
Most in 2023: 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
Source area for monthly permits: 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.
Nolan Hill against Alberta’s towns: 35% 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 Nolan Hill: Sage Hill, Citadel and Evanston
Next to Nolan Hill: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Nolan Hill
How many households in Nolan Hill are in core housing need?
5% of Nolan Hill’s households, under the 8% of Alberta’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Nolan Hill expensive for Alberta?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Nolan Hill’s is worth more.
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).