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73 communities (the largest quadrant by count) span the widest range in the city: inner-city blocks a few minutes from downtown, established mid-century suburbs further out, and new master-planned communities still under construction toward the southern ring road. The southwest has no private lake community, unlike the southeast just across the Macleod/Deerfoot line.
This is the quadrant to check most carefully for construction status: a southwest address can mean a fully mature 1960s neighbourhood or a subdivision still being built, and the two produce very different day-to-day experiences.
73 communities, guide by guide
Alpine Park
Calgary's newest master-planned community: a new-urbanist plan on the southwest ring road, built around a village centre eight minutes' walk from the houses.
- 2021
- Showhome neighbourhood opened
- 3.9 km²
- Community land area
Altadore
A 1945 community that became one of Calgary's most in-demand inner-city addresses, with River Park on its edge.
- 1945
- Community established
- 2.1 km²
- Community land area
Aspen Woods
Calgary's westernmost SW community: acreages and estate infill against Stoney Trail, with Aspen Landing as its own commercial village.
- 2001
- Community established
- 4.0 km²
- Community land area
Bankview
0.7 km² of walk-up apartments on the hill above 17th Avenue. Calgary's densest inner-city community.
- 1882
- Community established
- 0.7 km²
- Community land area
Bayview
A 1967 Alcan-built peninsula on Glenmore Reservoir. All single-family, zero rental, Calgary's highest income community by the last count.
- 1967
- Community established
- 0.4 km²
- Community land area
Bel-Aire
0.36 km² of single-detached homes on the Elbow River, all of it owner-occupied.
- 1960
- Community established
- 0.36 km²
- Community land area
Braeside
1965 bungalows between two Red Line stations and the city's biggest leisure centre.
- 1965
- Community established
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
Bridlewood
A 1997 subdivision at the city's southern edge, Spruce Meadows on one side, a wetland on the other.
- 1997
- Community established
- 3.2 km²
- Community land area
Britannia
Half a square kilometre of 1956 streets between the Elbow River and Elbow Drive, five minutes from Chinook Centre.
- 1956
- Community established
- 0.5 km²
- Community land area
Canyon Meadows
A 1965 community on Fish Creek Provincial Park's northern edge, with its own CTrain station and golf course.
- 1965
- Community established
- 3.1 km²
- Community land area
Cedarbrae
A 1973 community on Tsuut'ina Trail, with Southland Leisure Centre on its own doorstep.
- 1973
- Community established
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
Chinook Park
A 1959 pocket wedged between Glenmore Trail and Rockyview General Hospital, with the reservoir and Heritage Park a few minutes south.
- 1959
- Community established
- 0.6 km²
- Community land area
Christie Park
A 0.8 km² pocket on the escarpment above Sarcee Trail, established in 1990 and still one of the smallest communities in the southwest.
- 1990
- Community established
- 0.8 km²
- Community land area
Cliff Bungalow
A 0.4 km² pocket of condo towers and 1900s walk-ups squeezed between Uptown 17th Avenue's restaurant strip and the Elbow River escarpment, renamed from a numbered lot in the 1970s.
- 1907
- Community established
- 0.4 km²
- Community land area
Coach Hill
A 1979 hillside community at the western end of the Blue Line, with more condominiums and townhouses than any of its escarpment neighbours and a quarter of residents over 65.
- 1979
- Community established
- 1.1 km²
- Community land area
Cougar Ridge
A 2001 community wedged directly below Canada Olympic Park and the Paskapoo Slopes escarpment, with the Trans-Canada running along its own boundary toward the mountains.
- 2001
- Community established
- 2.2 km²
- Community land area
Crestmont
The city's far southwest edge, cut off from the rest of Calgary by the Trans-Canada Highway, with Rocky View County's open land on two sides and a single bus route.
- 2000s
- Decade built, City of Calgary
- 2.7 km²
- Community land area
Currie Barracks
A 1935 militia base, decommissioned in 1998 and rebuilt in place as a dense new community, with the old barracks buildings still standing and Mount Royal University on its doorstep.
- 1935
- Barracks construction begins
- 1.0 km²
- Community land area
Discovery Ridge
A 1990s community reached by a single road, wedged between Griffith Woods' 93-hectare Elbow River forest and the Tsuu T'ina First Nation boundary.
- Early 1990s
- Community established
- 3.6 km²
- Community land area
Eagle Ridge
A 0.4 km² peninsula in the Glenmore Reservoir, ringed on three sides by water, and one of Calgary's wealthiest addresses.
- 1960
- Subdivided by the Kelwood Corporation
- 0.4 km²
- Community land area
Elbow Park
One of Calgary's oldest and wealthiest riverside communities, built after 1910 along the Elbow's west bank, with the Glencoe Club on its doorstep and a real flood history.
- 1910
- Community established
- 1.8 km²
- Community land area
Elboya
A 1947 farmland-turned-inner-city pocket on the Elbow River, bordering Stanley Park, where 45 per cent of households rent.
- 1947
- Community established
- 0.7 km²
- Community land area
Erlton
A 1910 railway subdivision turned condo enclave on a bend of the Elbow, wedged between the Stampede Grounds and Macleod Trail, and now the highest-income small community on this site.
- 1906
- Established
- 0.5 km²
- Community land area
Evergreen
A 1999 community split by Fish Creek Boulevard, backing directly onto Fish Creek Provincial Park across nearly its whole northern edge.
- 1999
- Established
- 4.6 km²
- Community land area
Garrison Green
The smallest and densest of the three former CFB Calgary communities, built around a peacekeepers' memorial beside Mount Royal University.
- 2000s
- When 77% of the housing was built
- 0.4 km²
- Community land area
Garrison Woods
The former married-quarters half of CFB Calgary, rebuilt since 1998 with World War I battle-honour street names and Marda Loop on its doorstep.
- 1998
- CFB Calgary decommissioned
- 0.8 km²
- Community land area
Glamorgan
A 1958 community named for a dairy farm, sitting directly across Glenmore Trail from Mount Royal University, with 38% of its households living alone.
- 1958
- Community established
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
Glenbrook
A 1958 community on Richmond Road where nearly half the households rent, shaped as much by Mount Royal University's student market as by its original bungalows.
- 1958
- Community established
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
Glendale
A 1955 bungalow community built around Optimist Athletic Park, with the oldest housing stock and the lowest rental share of the three communities on this belt.
- 1955
- Community established
- 1.4 km²
- Community land area
Haysboro
A 1958 community on Harry Hays's old dairy farm, bisected by Elbow Drive and bordering the Glenmore Reservoir.
- 1958
- Community established
- 2.7 km²
- Community land area
Kelvin Grove
A 1957 community with Rockyview General Hospital immediately across 14 Street and Henry Wise Wood High School on its own southern edge.
- 1957
- Established
- 0.8 km²
- Community land area
Killarney/Glengarry
A 1906 bungalow grid rebuilding lot by lot since 2002, with the West LRT's Westbrook Station on its own doorstep and a long-vacant redevelopment site next door.
- 1906
- First subdivision plan registered
- 1.8 km²
- Community land area
Kingsland
A 1957 community pressed against Chinook Centre and Macleod Trail, where more than half the buildings are now condos or apartments.
- 1957
- Community established
- 1.3 km²
- Community land area
Lakeview
A 1962 community boxed in by Crowchild Trail and the Tsuut'ina Nation reserve, with the city's canoe and rowing clubs on its own reservoir shore.
- 1962
- Community established
- 2.2 km²
- Community land area
Lincoln Park
A 1.5 km² pocket built on a WWII airfield, now almost entirely Mount Royal University's campus and its surrounding rental apartments.
- 1972
- Mount Royal campus opens
- 1.5 km²
- Community land area
Lower Mount Royal
A 1907 CPR subdivision squeezed onto 0.3 square kilometres below the Upper Mount Royal escarpment, now Calgary's densest walk-up rental pocket.
- 1907
- Community established
- 0.3 km²
- Community land area
Manchester
A 1914 workers' district squeezed onto 0.5 km² between Macleod Trail and Manchester Industrial, with only 950 residents left and 93% of them renting.
- 1914
- Community established
- 0.5 km²
- Community land area
Marda Loop
A 200-plus-business shopping district on 33 and 34 Avenues SW, not a City of Calgary community. Every address here sits in South Calgary, Altadore or Garrison Woods.
- 1984
- Business Improvement Area established
- 0.9 km²
- South Calgary land area. Marda Loop's anchor community
Mayfair
0.3 km² of single-detached homes on Glenmore Reservoir's eastern shore, 100% owner-occupied and Calgary's highest-income community.
- 1957
- Community established
- 0.3 km²
- Community land area
Meadowlark Park
A 0.7 km² pocket of 1955 crescents wedged against Chinook Centre's western wall, pinched between Macleod Trail and Glenmore Trail.
- 1955
- Community established
- 0.6 km²
- Community land area
Millrise
A compact 1982 community south of Fish Creek Provincial Park, built around its own Sobeys-anchored plaza and the Fish Creek–Lacombe CTrain platform.
- 1982
- Community established
- 1.8 km²
- Community land area
Mission
A 0.53 km² former French mission village on the Elbow River, now Calgary's densest small community, where 4th Street SW's restaurant strip is effectively the neighbourhood's front yard.
- 1899
- Community established
- 0.53 km²
- Community land area
North Glenmore Park
A 1959 subdivision squeezed between Earl Grey Golf Club and the Glenmore Reservoir, with almost none of its own street-level commercial space.
- 1959
- Community established
- 1.2 km²
- Community land area
Oakridge
A 1968 escarpment community on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore, built around its own Co-op and a public school running two city-wide programmes.
- 1968
- Community established
- 2.4 km²
- Community land area
Palliser
A 1967 community on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore where 44% of homes are rented, well above the city average.
- 1967
- Community established
- 1.0 km²
- Community land area
Patterson
A 1983 escarpment community built on the site of the 1988 Winter Olympics' broadcast village, with the highest rental rate of Calgary's four western hillside communities.
- 1983
- Community established
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
Pump Hill
Calgary's smallest estate pocket, on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore, named for the windmill that once pumped water for a market garden.
- 1967
- Development begins (own community 1991)
- 0.9 km²
- Community land area
Richmond
A 1950 bungalow community split by Crowchild Trail, with the vacant Viscount Bennett school site on its doorstep and the fight over what replaces it unsettled.
- 1950
- Community established
- 1.8 km²
- Community land area
Rideau Park
A 0.3 km² pocket wrapped on three sides by a bend in the Elbow River, established in 1911, with a quarter of homes renting and Lindsay's sandstone ruin on the escarpment.
- 1911
- Community established
- 0.3 km²
- Community land area
Rosscarrock
A 1954 community squeezed between the West LRT and Shaganappi Point golf course, where apartments now outnumber the original bungalows.
- 1954
- Community established
- 1.1 km²
- Community land area
Roxboro
A 0.3 km² pocket wrapped by a bend in the Elbow River, established in 1923, with zero rental housing and a real flood history behind the wealth.
- 1923
- Community established
- 0.3 km²
- Community land area
Rutland Park
A 0.9 km² pocket on former Currie Barracks land where two in three households rent, and the community's own school building is currently leased to a private academy.
- 1952
- Community established
- 0.7 km²
- Community land area
Scarboro
A 1910 Olmsted-designed garden suburb of curving streets and triangular parkettes on 0.5 square kilometres, bisected by Crowchild Trail since 1964.
- 1910
- Community established
- 0.5 km²
- Community land area
Shaganappi
A 1949 community wrapped around Calgary's second-oldest municipal golf course, with its own West LRT stop on Bow Trail.
- 1949
- Community established
- 1.5 km²
- Community land area
Shawnee Slopes
A 1986 golf-course community whose fairways council cleared for about 1,400 homes in 2013, with Fish Creek along the whole northern edge.
- 1986
- Community established
- 1.2 km²
- Community land area
Shawnessy
A 1981 community named for Samuel Shaw, whose community association still works out of an old barn beside the big-box retail of Shawnessy Town Centre.
- 1981
- Community established
- 3.7 km²
- Community land area
Signal Hill
A 1986 hillside community whose escarpment carries the Battalion Park numerals: 16,000 stones spelling out four First World War battalion numbers.
- 1987
- Community established
- 5.4 km²
- Community land area
Silverado
A 2000s community south of Stoney Trail, built against a city-mandated wetland buffer with Spruce Meadows on the other side.
- 2005
- Community established
- 5.9 km²
- Community land area
Somerset
A 1995 community at the literal end of the Red Line, with Spruce Meadows just across Stoney Trail to the south.
- 1995
- Community established
- 2.2 km²
- Community land area
South Calgary
A 0.9 km² pocket that sat vacant for decades, now split exactly 50/50 between owners and renters, with Marda Loop's northern half along its own southern edge.
- 1914
- Community established
- 0.9 km²
- Community land area
Southwood
A 1960 community built where the Corral Drive-in used to run, bracketed by two CTrain stations on the original South Line.
- 1960
- Community established
- 2.6 km²
- Community land area
Springbank Hill
Calgary's largest southwest edge community, running from LRT-side condos near 69 Street down to gated acreage estates in The Slopes, and still filling in on its southern lots.
- 1999
- Community established
- 6.3 km²
- Community land area
Spruce Cliff
A 1950 apartment-heavy community wedged between the Bow River escarpment and Shaganappi's golf course, with Westbrook LRT a short walk southeast.
- 1950
- Community established
- 1.1 km²
- Community land area
Strathcona Park
A 1980 family community wrapped around its own 23-hectare ravine park, with the lowest rental rate and the largest population of the escarpment's four hillside communities.
- 1980
- Community established
- 2.7 km²
- Community land area
Sunalta
A 1910 CPR grid of 25-foot lots that became the West LRT's first stop out of downtown, now Calgary's most rented inner-city address.
- 1910
- Community established
- 0.9 km²
- Community land area
Upper Mount Royal
1.3 square kilometres of large-lot estates above the Cameron and Royal Avenue escarpment, established in 1904 as Calgary's original elite hillside subdivision.
- 1904
- Community established
- 1.3 km²
- Community land area
West Springs
A 2001 community of new detached houses west of Sarcee, with three private and international schools nearby and the Blue Line's 69 Street terminus a drive, not a walk, away.
- 2001
- Community established
- 4.1 km²
- Community land area
Westgate
A 1957 bungalow community pinned between Edworthy Park's ravine and Sarcee Trail, where 58% of the housing predates 1961 and almost nobody rents.
- 1957
- Community established
- 1.2 km²
- Community land area
Wildwood
A 1950s bungalow community backing directly onto Edworthy Park and the Douglas Fir Trail, with the lowest rental rate and the highest income of the escarpment's four hillside communities.
- 1956
- Community established
- 2.5 km²
- Community land area
Windsor Park
A 1940 riverside pocket beside the Calgary Golf & Country Club, now 63% rental and dominated by apartment towers.
- 1940
- Community established
- 1.3 km²
- Community land area
Woodbine
A 1979 community built directly against Fish Creek Provincial Park's northern edge, where 10 per cent of households rent against 31 across the city.
- 1979
- Community established
- 3.2 km²
- Community land area
Woodlands
A 1976 community against Fish Creek Provincial Park, where the Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club sits entirely inside its own boundary.
- 1976
- Community established
- 2.8 km²
- Community land area
Yorkville
Calgary's newest southwest community, still filling in past Stoney Trail, with Central Park and its skate park at its centre.
- 2.0 km²
- Community land area
- 715
- Residents (2021 census)
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