Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0Spruce Cliff lives in apartments: 62% of its homes, beside 14% for Alberta’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $600,000; averaged, their homes came to $557,812. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for Spruce Cliff the census value is the measure.
Two ways to price a home in Spruce Cliff
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
- $558K
- Owners
- 1,380
- 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
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.
More condos than most: 48% of the homes in Spruce Cliff (Alberta’s towns: 15%)
Spruce Cliff had 3,150 occupied homes at the 2021 census. At least half predate 2001. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Spruce Cliff | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 48% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 18% | 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.
Calgary permitted 26.6 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Calgary issued permits for 77,275 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 12,879 a year. About 26% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%. Spruce Cliff doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Calgary metro area.
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
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.
Spruce Cliff is 50% above the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns
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 Spruce Cliff: Westgate and Sunalta
The places around Spruce Cliff at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Cliff | $600K | $558K | 44% | |
| Wildwood | $600K | $631K | 83% | 1.1 |
| Rosscarrock | $600K | $581K | 35% | 1.1 |
| West Hillhurst | $780K | $905K | 64% | 1.5 |
| Killarney/Glengarry | $650K | $607K | 60% | 1.5 |
| Westgate | $548K | $518K | 73% | 1.8 |
| Sunalta | $532K | $662K | 34% | 2.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Spruce Cliff
How many households in Spruce Cliff are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 18% of Spruce Cliff’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Spruce Cliff expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Spruce Cliff 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).