Commuting · Census Insights
Where transit is part of the daily commute in Calgary
The Calgary neighbourhoods where public transit accounts for the largest share of commutes to work.
A transit system can serve a city very differently from one neighbourhood to the next. The Census records where transit is most commonly used for the journey to work in Calgary.
How to read this result
This is the main mode used for the journey to work. It does not measure every trip, transit service frequency, or how people travelled after Census Day.
The highest result in this analysis is in Downtown Commercial Core, where 29.8% of the relevant Census population is represented by commuters who take public transit. Across Calgary as a whole, the corresponding Census figure is 7.9%.
The top 10 neighbourhoods
To keep percentage comparisons useful, the ranking excludes areas with fewer than 500 residents or no reported value.
| # | Neighbourhood | commuters who take public transit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown Commercial Core | 29.8% |
| 2 | Downtown West End | 29.5% |
| 3 | Downtown East Village | 27.7% |
| 4 | Silverton | 26.0% |
| 5 | Charleswood | 22.3% |
| 6 | Rosscarrock | 21.5% |
| 7 | Banff Trail | 20.2% |
| 8 | Sunalta | 19.5% |
| 9 | Dalhousie | 18.5% |
| 10 | Highland Park | 17.7% |
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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