Live in Livingston
Brookfield's community at Calgary's northern tip, where the amenity centre opened before most of the houses.
Livingston is Brookfield Residential's community at Calgary's northern tip. Wikipedia's neighbourhood list dates its founding to 2017, and it has filled in fast: the City's 2019 civic census counted 1,477 residents in 838 dwellings, and the 2021 federal census 3,985 residents in 1,335 private households, 88% of them owners on an average household size of three. What separates it from other new communities is that the amenity centre already exists: the Livingston Hub at 1248 Livingston Way NE, funded by a homeowners association fee every home pays.
The amenity centre arrived before the houses
Bounded by 160 Avenue N to the north, 6 Street NE to the east, Stoney Trail NE and 144 Avenue NW to the south, and Centre Street N and 7 Street NW to the west. Ward 3.
Livingston is Brookfield Residential's community at the city's northern tip. Wikipedia's neighbourhood list dates its founding to 2017, and it filled in fast: the City's 2019 civic census counted 1,477 residents in 838 dwellings, and the 2021 federal census 3,985 residents in 1,335 private households.
What separates it from every other new community on this site: the amenity came first. The Livingston Hub, at 1248 Livingston Way NE, carries a gymnasium, tennis and pickleball courts, a splash park, an ice rink, a playground and rentable event space, and it is open 9am to 10pm every day. It is funded by a homeowners association fee that every home in Livingston pays: $455 plus GST, $477.75 for the year running 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, due 1 April with a thirty-day grace period and interest after that.
The rest is standard new-north maths. 88% of households own and 71% of dwellings are single-detached, median household income was $116,000 in 2020, and the commute is the cost: 45% of employed residents travel 30 minutes or more to work, against 32% across Calgary, and 87% drive. Nothing this guide could open names a school inside the community.
- The HOA fee applies to all homes in Livingston and you are a member on occupancy: it is not optional
- Nothing this guide could open names a school inside the community; designations move with growth
- 45% of employed residents commute 30 minutes or more, against 32% across Calgary
- There is no rail here and none under construction
How Livingston got here
- 2017Wikipedia's neighbourhood list dates Livingston's founding to 2017.
- 2019The City's last civic census counts 1,477 residents and 838 dwellings, 526 of them occupied and 474 owner-occupied.
- 2021The federal census counts 3,985 residents in 1,335 private households, 88% of them owner households, with a median household income of $116,000 for 2020.
- 2021The Livingston Community Association registers as a provincial society on 14 January. It runs no rental facility of its own; the Hub belongs to the homeowners association.
- 2026The homeowners association sets the 2026-27 fee at $455 plus GST, $477.75, for the year running 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Amenity-first planning, tested daily
The Hub anchors the community's daily life: gymnasium, courts, splash park, ice rink and playground on one site at 1248 Livingston Way NE. Park and pathway segments run through the built phases, and members may bring five guests a household a day, or twenty-five with a week's notice.
What the map does not show: the Hub is the honest test of HOA value. Visit on a weeknight and count the programs before judging the fee.
Elsewhere in Calgary, not Livingston
10 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–10 of 10 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are estimated from the centre of the community to each destination using Calgary's road grid, and are rounded to honest ranges rather than presented as precise figures. The airport and CrossIron read close; downtown is the trade you make for the northern tip.
Every gym within reach
The Hub inside, Vivo south, and the districts between. The Hub runs 9am to 10pm daily; confirm the rest before you count on it.
- Gymnasium, tennis and pickleball courts, splash park, ice rink, playground and event space
- Vivo, at 11950 Country Village Link NE, carries the pools, ice arenas, climbing walls and a library branch
- District clubs at Country Hills
- The park and pathway segments are the free option
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Livingston Hub open | Gymnasium, tennis and pickleball courts, splash park, ice rink and event space at 1248 Livingston Way NE, open 9am to 10pm daily. The annual HOA fee funds it. | 1–3 min |
| Vivo for Healthier Generations open | Leisure and lane pools, hot tub, sauna, ice arenas, gymnasiums, a climbing wall, three fitness studios and a Calgary Public Library branch, at 11950 Country Village Link NE. | 6–10 min |
| Country Hills district clubs open | Commercial gyms in the established district south. | 7–11 min |
| Greenway links open | Free option: the park and pathway segments through the built phases. | 1–3 min |
The Hub plus Vivo covers a family's year. The missing piece is a pool inside the community.
Sites reserved, schools pending
Nothing this guide could open names a school inside Livingston. The homeowners association publishes a designated-schools list, but only as a linked PDF this guide did not read, so treat any designation you are told about as unconfirmed until a board confirms it.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| No school this guide could place inside the community | Both boards | Nothing this guide could open names a school inside Livingston. The homeowners association publishes a designated-schools list, but only as a PDF this guide did not read. |
| Calgary Board of Education designations | Calgary Board of Education | Confirm the current designation and busing in writing before you buy. |
| Calgary Catholic School District designations | Calgary Catholic School District | The district's site refuses automated clients. Confirm the designation and busing with the board directly. |
Alberta funds Catholic education the same way it funds public education, so there is no tuition for a resident student at either board. Get the designation and busing in writing from both boards before you buy. The Calgary Catholic School District's site refuses automated clients, so nothing on that side was read here.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The Hub's rink and gymnasium carry winter: the HOA fee working
- Priority snow routes keep the main roads clear
- Indoor recreation carries the season
- Long dark evenings, but rarely for weeks at a stretch
- Ski traffic west on the Trans-Canada peaks on Friday and Sunday
- Coldest snaps usually break with a chinook
- Noticeably longer light by month end
- Indoor pools at their busiest
- Melt and refreeze on the side streets: ice cleats weather
- Pathways reopen as the snow goes
- First patio afternoons on the warm chinook days
- Street sweeping begins late in the month
- Construction season restarts across the unbuilt phases
- Pathway and park season opens properly
- Garden centres open across the quadrant
- Migratory birds return to the parks
- Long evenings: sunset past 9pm by month end
- Lilacs and crabapples through the older streets
- Field sport seasons start on the community greens
- First genuinely warm stretches
- Peak daylight at the solstice: over 16 hours
- School year ends and the parks fill
- Evening thunderstorms begin building over the foothills
- Farmers' markets open for the season
- Hail season at the city's open northern tip
- Hottest month, with cool nights at this elevation
- Evening thunderstorms roll off the foothills
- Canada Day events in the parks
- Folk Festival on Prince's Island mid-month
- Kananaskis and Banff at their best, straight west
- Quietest weeks before school returns
- Smoke from western wildfires is possible
- School year restarts and morning traffic thickens
- First frost typically arrives late in the month
- Poplar and aspen colour begins
- Evenings shorten fast
- Peak autumn colour through the older tree-lined streets
- First snow is normal, and normally melts
- Snow tires go on across the quadrant
- Nose Hill's grasses turn gold
- Ski season opens west on the Trans-Canada
- Dark by 5pm
- Freeze sets in for good
- Holiday retail season begins
- Chinook arches over the western skyline on clear days
- Holiday lights through the community streets
- The Hub's ice rink opens when the freeze holds
- Quiet, short days between the holidays
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About these photographs. Openly licensed images geotagged in or near Livingston, found on Wikimedia Commons and served from there with full attribution. Inline photos elsewhere on the page may still come from the site's shared Calgary library.