Immigration · Census Insights
Where newcomers are putting down roots in Calgary
The Calgary neighbourhoods with the largest shares of residents who are immigrants.
Immigration is part of the story of every large Canadian city. These are the Calgary neighbourhoods where immigrants make up the largest share of residents.
How to read this result
The Census immigration status is a population measure. It does not identify a person’s country of origin, language, citizenship, or when an individual household arrived.
The highest result in this analysis is in Saddle Ridge (east-northeast 1), where 64.8% of the relevant Census population is represented by residents who are immigrants. Across Calgary as a whole, the corresponding Census figure is 31.5%.
The top 10 neighbourhoods
To keep percentage comparisons useful, the ranking excludes areas with fewer than 500 residents or no reported value.
| # | Neighbourhood | immigrant population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saddle Ridge (east-northeast 1) | 64.8% |
| 2 | StoneGate Landing | 63.8% |
| 3 | Saddle Ridge (east-northeast 2) | 63.5% |
| 4 | Saddle Ridge | 63.1% |
| 5 | Cornerstone (south) | 62.5% |
| 6 | Cornerstone (north) | 62.5% |
| 7 | Carrington | 62.1% |
| 8 | Homestead (east) | 61.5% |
| 9 | Saddle Ridge (west-southwest) | 60.9% |
| 10 | Hamptons | 58.2% |
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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