Commuting · Census Insights
Where longer commutes are most common in Calgary
The Calgary neighbourhoods with the largest shares of workers reporting commutes of 60 minutes or more.
Travel time can differ sharply between neighbourhoods in the same metro area. Where in Calgary are long commutes most common?
How to read this result
The Census describes a reported usual commute duration for workers. It is not a live travel-time estimate and does not identify the route, destination, or reason for a long trip.
The highest result in this analysis is in Rocky View County (northwest), where 13.3% of the relevant Census population is represented by workers commuting 60 minutes or more. Across Calgary as a whole, the corresponding Census figure is 5.1%.
The top 10 neighbourhoods
To keep percentage comparisons useful, the ranking excludes areas with fewer than 500 residents or no reported value.
| # | Neighbourhood | commuters travelling 60 minutes or more |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocky View County (northwest) | 13.3% |
| 2 | Heritage Hills | 13.2% |
| 3 | Sunset Ridge | 11.2% |
| 4 | Silverton | 11.0% |
| 5 | Forest Lawn | 10.4% |
| 6 | Pioneer Acres of Alberta | 10.1% |
| 7 | Copperfield | 9.4% |
| 8 | Taradale | 9.3% |
| 9 | Rundle | 9.2% |
| 10 | Rocky View County (west-southwest) | 9.1% |
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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