Live in Falconridge

Falconridge was annexed into the City of Calgary in 1961 as part of the old Municipal District of Rocky View, then established as a community of its own in 1979: the same year the Falconridge/Castleridge Community Association was registered as a provincial society, on 30 November. Castleridge followed in 1980.

It sits in the northeast quadrant, bounded by Falconridge Boulevard on the west, 64 Avenue N on the north, 68 Street E on the east and McKnight Boulevard on the south. Castleridge sits immediately across the eastern boundary, home to the Baitun Nur Mosque, an Ahmadiyya mosque of 4,500 square metres that opened on 5 July 2008 and was, as of that year, the largest in Canada.

Housing mix. This is not the single-detached suburb the year suggests. At the 2021 census 49% of occupied dwellings were single-detached, 18% row houses, 15% semi-detached and 10% apartments in a duplex, with none at all above five storeys. 43% of the stock went up between 1981 and 1990 and another 42% between 1961 and 1980. 37% of households rent, above the city's 31%, and median household income was $83,000 in 2020 against $98,000 across Calgary.

Who lives here. 45% of residents were immigrants at the 2021 census against 33% citywide, and only 59% speak English most often at home against 75% across the city. Households are large, averaging 3.2 people, with 23% of them five or more. The federal census counted 10,325 residents in 3,220 private households, and the City's last civic census in 2019 had found 10,649 in 3,565 dwellings: a community that is full rather than growing.

Worth knowing before you commit

A 1979 community

Two schools inside the boundaries, and a senior high designation across the city

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• 85% of the housing went up between 1961 and 1990. Original roofs, windows, furnaces and electrical panels are at or past design life
• Half the stock is attached: row houses, semi-detached and duplex apartments make up 43% of occupied dwellings
• Falconridge Boulevard and McKnight Boulevard carry heavy through-traffic on two of the four boundaries. Go and listen at different times of day
• Airport flight paths are a real consideration across the northeast
• Genesis Centre and Village Square Leisure Centre are drives, not walks, for most of the community
• Nothing the CBE publishes prints an attendance area here. James Fowler is the senior high this guide can name, and it is across the city in the northwest: confirm the designation before you buy

How Falconridge got here

• 1961The land is annexed to Calgary from the Municipal District of Rocky View.
• 1979Falconridge is established, and the Falconridge/Castleridge Community Association is registered as a provincial society on 30 November. Castleridge follows in 1980.
• 1980sThe decade that built the place: 43 per cent of today's occupied dwellings date from 1981 to 1990 and another 42 per cent from 1961 to 1980, against 12 and 26 per cent across Calgary.
• 2007McKnight–Westwinds station opens on the Blue Line at 6200C 36 Street NE, southwest of the community, with 949 park and ride spaces and route 55 Falconridge among its connections.
• 2008The Baitun Nur Mosque opens in Castleridge on 5 July, an Ahmadiyya mosque of 4,500 square metres that Wikipedia records as the largest in Canada as of that year.
• 2012Saddletowne station opens on 27 August as the Blue Line's northeast terminus, a 2.9 km extension, beside the Genesis Centre.
• 2019The City's last civic census counts 10,649 residents in 3,565 dwellings, 3,324 of them occupied and 1,813 owner-occupied.
• 2021The federal census counts 10,325 residents in 3,220 private households, 37 per cent of them renting, with a median household income of $83,000 in 2020 against $98,000 across Calgary.

What the map does not show: this is a community built around its own schools and community hall rather than a park system. The Baitun Nur Mosque next door in Castleridge, at 4353 54 Avenue NE and the largest mosque in Canada when it opened in 2008, is a genuine neighbourhood landmark, not a park, but part of daily geography here.

Elsewhere in Calgary, not Falconridge

The community hall is worth using. The Falconridge/Castleridge Community Association, registered on 30 November 1979, runs Walsh Hall for 300 and Langlois Hall for 150 at 95 Falshire Drive NE, plus seniors afternoons, preschool, ESL twice weekly and the Buzz Club before and after school care. Check its schedule before defaulting to a drive.