Households · Census Insights
Where living alone is most common in Calgary
The Calgary neighbourhoods where one-person households make up the largest share of private households.
Living arrangements shape local demand for housing, services and amenities. These are the parts of Calgary with the highest shares of one-person households.
How to read this result
A one-person household is a household count, not a measure of loneliness, age, income, or a person’s family relationships outside the home.
The highest result in this analysis is in Mission, where 65.6% of the relevant Census population is represented by one-person households. Across Calgary as a whole, the corresponding Census figure is 25.4%.
The top 10 neighbourhoods
To keep percentage comparisons useful, the ranking excludes areas with fewer than 500 residents or no reported value.
| # | Neighbourhood | one-person households |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission | 65.6% |
| 2 | Downtown East Village | 65.1% |
| 3 | Lower Mount Royal | 64.5% |
| 4 | Ramsay | 63.9% |
| 5 | Beltline | 62.6% |
| 6 | Cliff Bungalow | 62.2% |
| 7 | Victoria Park | 59.6% |
| 8 | Bankview | 57.8% |
| 9 | Connaught | 56.6% |
| 10 | Downtown Commercial Core | 54.1% |
About the data
This article uses Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census of Population at the neighbourhood or census-tract level as presented on Calgary Census Atlas. Values are subject to Statistics Canada’s disclosure controls and random rounding. This is a descriptive ranking, not a measure of individual households or a prediction.
Source. 2021 Census of Canada, Census Profile 98-401-X2021007, at census tract level for CMA 825, published by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Boundaries from the 2021 census tract and census subdivision cartographic boundary files. Area labels use nearby OpenStreetMap place names (ODbL). Figures cover population in private households; Statistics Canada randomly rounds counts to a multiple of 5, so components may not sum exactly to totals.
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