Live in Winston Heights/Mountview

Winston Heights/Mountview was established in 1932, which makes it one of the older communities in Calgary's northeast. Most of what stands today was built through the 1950s around an existing core of wartime-era homes, and the Mountview side of the name: originally known as Red Carpet: was added to the community in 1972.

It sits on the west escarpment of the Nose Creek Valley, an inner-city location rather than an edge one: Edmonton Trail forms the western boundary, 32 Avenue N the northern one, the Trans-Canada Highway the southern one, and Deerfoot Trail, alongside Nose Creek itself, the eastern one. Fox Hollow Golf Course and the Winston Golf Club both back onto the community along that eastern edge: a genuine rarity this close to downtown.

Housing mix. At the 2021 census the community was 41% single-detached, 18% semi-detached, 13% apartments in a duplex, 12% apartments under five storeys and 10% row houses, with 59% owner-occupied and 41% renting. Median household income was $97,000 in 2020, a shade under the city's $98,000.

Who lives here. 18% of residents were immigrants at the 2021 count, half the citywide 33%, and 34% of households are one person. The count was 3,605 in 1,650 private households, down from 3,632 at the City's 2019 civic census. There is no new land left, so change comes as infill, guided by an area redevelopment plan Wikipedia notes but does not date: 29% of the occupied stock was built in 2001 or later.

Worth knowing before you commit

A 1932 community, largely rebuilt in the 1950s

Inner-city access, and the trade-offs of a small, aging housing stock

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• Homes are a mix of 1930s originals and 1950s-era stock. Many original systems are at or past design life
• An area redevelopment plan guides infill, and 29% of occupied dwellings date from 2001 or later, so the streetscape is changing lot by lot
• Two golf courses on the eastern edge back directly onto some properties
• Deerfoot Trail forms the eastern boundary: noise and access are both real considerations
• Population has eased down slightly since the 2019 civic census even as the city grows around it
• The board publishes no attendance areas: search your own address on its find-a-school page

How Winston Heights/Mountview got here

• 1932Winston Heights is established on the west escarpment of the Nose Creek Valley, one of the older communities in Calgary's northeast.
• 1949The community association registers on 6 December, by the Federation of Calgary Communities' record. The association's own site says it has been serving the community since 1908, and the two do not agree.
• 1950sMost of the community's housing is built out around the existing core of wartime-era homes.
• 1972The adjoining Mountview area, originally known as Red Carpet, is formed, giving the community its combined name.
• 2019The City's last civic census counts 3,632 residents in 1,803 dwellings, 1,619 of them occupied and 877 owner-occupied.
• 2021The federal census counts 3,605 residents in 1,650 private households, with a median household income of $97,000 in 2020 against $98,000 across Calgary, and 41 per cent of households renting.
• 2020sAn area redevelopment plan guides the infill, and it shows in the dates: 29 per cent of occupied dwellings were built in 2001 or later, against 37 per cent in 1960 or before.

What the map does not show: this is not a community built around a lake or a river valley park: its open space is two golf courses and a creek escarpment. What it trades for that is genuine inner-city proximity: Bridgeland and its café strip a few minutes south, and downtown closer than from almost any other community on this site.

Elsewhere in Calgary, not Winston Heights/Mountview

Two golf courses, one season. Wikipedia places Fox Hollow and the Winston Golf Club at the eastern edge of the neighbourhood. Neither publishes a page this guide could open, so treat their hours, fees and access as unconfirmed.