Photo: Jonathan Schilling · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in West Springs is worth 68% more than the middle of Alberta’s towns
At the 2021 census the median home was worth $670,000, where Alberta’s towns sit at $400,000. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for West Springs.
Two ways to price a home in West Springs
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Calgary, West Springs included.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $745K
- Owners
- 3,335
- 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
In 2024, Calgary had 483,605 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 62% of them and condos 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.
91% of West Springs’s homes are from 2001 or later, against 24% for Alberta’s towns
West Springs had 3,795 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 69% of them single-detached houses. 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
| West Springs | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 1% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Calgary created 77,275 homes, about 12,879 a year. About 26% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
The busiest year: 2023, with 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Level with the year before: 26,142 new homes to August 2026
Monthly permits for 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.
West Springs is 68% 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 West Springs: Coach Hill, Cougar Ridge and Patterson
The places around West Springs at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Springs | $670K | $745K | 88% | |
| Aspen Woods | $750K | $987K | 83% | 1.2 |
| Coach Hill | $452K | $496K | 83% | 1.6 |
| Strathcona Park | $650K | $669K | 90% | 1.6 |
| Cougar Ridge | $580K | $617K | 88% | 2.1 |
| Patterson | $576K | $574K | 72% | 2.2 |
| Montgomery | $500K | $551K | 63% | 3.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in West Springs
How many households in West Springs are in core housing need?
In West Springs, 3% of households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is West Springs expensive for Alberta?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; West Springs’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).