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Calgary · 2026

Calgary’s neighbourhoods on 14 lists

Upper Mount Royal tops 5 of the lists, more than any other. The most top-three finishes, 7, belong to Upper Mount Royal. One list, schools, ranks places against Alberta’s own only. National #1s lead 2 of these lists. 14 lists rank the 151 neighbourhoods in Calgary. On the overall grade, Upper Mount Royal comes first (A+).

Each list ranks the neighbourhoods in Calgary against one another; the letters compare every place with Canada’s towns. How grades work

Rankings

Every list for Calgary’s neighbourhoods

Grouped by what they measure, each with its three best neighbourhoods.

Lists for all of Canada

Overall, and by size

Best places to live
  1. Upper Mount RoyalA+
  2. Garrison WoodsA+
  3. AltadoreA+
All 151 →

Subject by subject

Most affordable
  1. Aspen WoodsB+
  2. Cougar RidgeB
  3. West SpringsB
All 151 →Safest
  1. Upper Mount RoyalB−
  2. Garrison WoodsB−
  3. AltadoreB−
All 151 →Best schools
  1. Discovery RidgeA+
  2. Aspen WoodsA+
  3. West SpringsA+
All 151 →Healthiest
  1. Currie BarracksA+
  2. RichmondA+
  3. BeltlineA+
All 151 →Jobs & income
  1. Upper Mount RoyalA+
  2. Garrison WoodsA+
  3. AltadoreA+
All 151 →Most walkable
  1. Eau ClaireA+
  2. Downtown West EndA+
  3. MissionA+
All 151 →Lowest hazard risk
  1. Upper Mount RoyalB+
  2. Garrison WoodsB+
  3. AltadoreB+
All 151 →Civic life
  1. Upper Mount RoyalB
  2. Garrison WoodsB
  3. AltadoreB
All 151 →

Described: figures, no letters

Highest incomes
  1. Elbow Park$200,000
  2. Aspen Woods$199,000
  3. Upper Mount Royal$188,200
All 151 →Most historic
  1. Downtown Commercial Core6
  2. Downtown East Village6
  3. Sunnyside3
All 151 →Most bilingual
  1. Garrison Woods19.5%
  2. Upper Mount Royal15.6%
  3. Altadore14.7%
All 151 →Youngest
  1. Cityscape31.5 years
  2. Redstone32 years
  3. Livingston32.1 years
All 151 →Oldest
  1. Palliser53.6 years
  2. Country Hills Village51.9 years
  3. Hamptons51.1 years
All 151 →
City by city

Neighbourhood rankings in other cities

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Photos: Altadore, jockrutherford from Owen Sound, ON (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Aspen Woods, Qyd (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Cougar Ridge, Michael from Calgary, AB, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · West Springs, Jonathan Schilling (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Discovery Ridge, outofthought (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Currie Barracks, Chris Woodrich (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Beltline, formulanone (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Eau Claire, Thank you for visiting my page from Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Downtown West End, Iamjforlife (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Mission, Robert Thivierge ( User:Thivierr ) (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Downtown Commercial Core, Thank you for visiting my page from Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Downtown East Village, Silver Dovelet (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sunnyside, Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand (CC0) · Cityscape, Qyd (CC BY 2.5) · Livingston, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson S… (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Canadian towns against each other only, run #73 of 10 November 2026. 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).