Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand · CC064% of Sunnyside’s homes are apartments, against 14% for Alberta’s towns
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $572,000, the average one $580,099. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since. No sales are published for towns in Alberta, Sunnyside included, so owners’ values are the measure.
Two ways to price a home in Sunnyside
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Alberta’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $580K
- Owners
- 505
- 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.
Core housing need: 16% of Sunnyside’s households, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%
Sunnyside had 1,760 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981. 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
| Sunnyside | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 34% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 16% | 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
Over 2018–2023, 77,275 homes were permitted in Calgary, close to 12,879 each year. About 26% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%. Behind monthly permits sits data gathered across the Calgary metro area, with Sunnyside one part of it.
A peak 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
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.
Sunnyside is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 43% 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 Sunnyside: Downtown Commercial Core and Downtown West End
Next to Sunnyside: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside | $572K | $580K | 29% | |
| Rosedale | $900K | $1.06M | 63% | 0.6 |
| Eau Claire | $628K | $771K | 45% | 0.7 |
| Downtown Commercial Core | $240K | $326K | 9% | 0.9 |
| Downtown West End | $400K | $392K | 36% | 1.2 |
| Hillhurst | $750K | $796K | 56% | 1.3 |
| Crescent Heights | $552K | $580K | 40% | 1.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sunnyside
Is Sunnyside expensive for Alberta?
Dearer than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Sunnyside to 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).