Housing · Census Insights
Where renting is most common in Calgary
The Calgary neighbourhoods where renter households make up the largest share of occupied homes.
Renting is not distributed evenly across a city. These Census results show where renter households are most concentrated in Calgary.
How to read this result
Tenure describes whether occupied private dwellings are rented or owned. It does not show rent levels, vacancy, building condition, or the availability of homes today.
The highest result in this analysis is in Downtown West End, where 81.8% of the relevant Census population is represented by renter households. Across Calgary as a whole, the corresponding Census figure is 29.5%.
The top 10 neighbourhoods
To keep percentage comparisons useful, the ranking excludes areas with fewer than 500 residents or no reported value.
| # | Neighbourhood | renter households |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown West End | 81.8% |
| 2 | Downtown East Village | 77.0% |
| 3 | Beltline | 76.6% |
| 4 | Scarboro/Sunalta West | 76.3% |
| 5 | Downtown Commercial Core | 75.1% |
| 6 | Forest Lawn | 74.3% |
| 7 | Bankview | 73.5% |
| 8 | Connaught | 73.4% |
| 9 | Victoria Park | 72.4% |
| 10 | University District | 71.6% |
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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