20 guides
What people build, community by community.
Every page here is built from the City of Calgary's open data: what people in that community have built since 2023, how long permits took, who lives there and what the land use allows. Only communities with enough permits to say something real get a page.
Where the numbers come from
Every figure is from the City of Calgary's open data: building permits issued since January 2023, development permits, the secondary suite registry, the 2021 census and the City's 2019 civic census. Each page states the date its data was retrieved. Declared values are what applicants wrote on their permits, not quotes, and they run below real costs.
A community gets a page only when it has at least 100 permits for the kinds of work that change a layout (new homes, suites, additions, garages and basements) across at least three of those project types. Communities below that line are rechecked each quarter.
The guides
North (4)
- 5 min readAdding a suite in Carrington, Calgary? What 353 suite permits showCarrington issued 270 permits to turn existing space into a suite from 2023 to September 2026, 3.8% of Calgary's total, plus 83 classed as new construction.Read the guide
- 5 min readGlacier Ridge, Calgary: 399 semi-detached homes since 2023Glacier Ridge had 399 new semi-detached homes permitted from 2023 to September 2026, 7.2% of Calgary's total and the most of any community in the city.Read the guide
- 5 min readLivingston, Calgary: more new garages than anywhere elseLivingston led Calgary with 1,148 new houses and 493 detached garages permitted from January 2023 to September 2026, with a median house of 2,050 sq ft.Read the guide
- 5 min readNew homes in Moraine, Calgary have grown 466 sq ft since 2023The median new house permitted in Moraine went from 1,717 sq ft in 2023 to 2,183 sq ft in 2026, across 634 permits to 29 September 2026.Read the guide
Northeast (4)
- 5 min readCityscape, Calgary: third in the city for suite applicationsCityscape had 154 secondary suite development permit applications from 2023 to 2026, the third most of 97 Calgary communities, and households of 3.9.Read the guide
- 6 min readCornerstone, Calgary: more suite permits than any other communityCornerstone had 1,164 secondary suite permits from 2023 to September 2026, 12.4% of Calgary's total and more than any other community in the city.Read the guide
- 5 min readSaddle Ridge, Calgary: where households average 4.1 peopleSaddle Ridge homes averaged 4.1 people in 2021, and 409 suite development permits were filed there from 2023 to 2026, the most of any Calgary community.Read the guide
- 5 min readWhy a fifth of new Northeast Calgary houses are in HomesteadHomestead issued 542 new-house permits from January 2023 to 29 September 2026, 21.9% of the Northeast sector's total, and 194 semi-detached permits.Read the guide
South (6)
- 5 min readAlpine Park, Calgary: new houses, few suites so farAlpine Park had 826 new houses permitted from 2023 to September 2026 but just 86 suite permits altering existing space, 1.2% of Calgary's total for that work.Read the guide
- 6 min readBelmont, Calgary: two-fifths of the land is still to comeAbout 41.5% of Belmont is still future urban development land, yet it issued 517 new-house and 216 garage permits from 2023 to September 2026.Read the guide
- 5 min readFinishing a basement in Silverado, Calgary: 105 permits since 2023Silverado issued 105 basement development permits from 2023 to 29 September 2026, at 23 to 29 a year, in a community of 2,550 households in 2021.Read the guide
- 5 min readLegacy, Calgary: apartments, suites and 3,000 sq ft housesIn Legacy, 77 of 638 new houses permitted from 2023 to September 2026 topped 3,000 sq ft, while apartments made up 36% of dwellings in the 2019 census.Read the guide
- 5 min readPine Creek, Calgary: new-construction suite permits tripledPine Creek suite permits classed as new construction went from 15 in 2024 to 45 in 2025, in a community that had 245 residents at the 2021 census.Read the guide
- 5 min readWolf Willow, Calgary: 2026 is its biggest garage year yetWolf Willow issued 68 detached garage permits in 2026 to 29 September, more than in any full year since 2023, and 196 since January 2023.Read the guide
Southeast (5)
- 6 min readHotchkiss, Calgary: 306 semis, and garages catching upOne in three new homes permitted in Hotchkiss since 2023 is semi-detached: 306 permits to September 2026, or 26.2% of the Southeast's total.Read the guide
- 5 min readMahogany, Calgary: more basement developments than anywhereMahogany had 329 basement development permits from 2023 to September 2026, the most in Calgary, against 151 suite permits that altered existing space.Read the guide
- 5 min readRangeview, Calgary: new houses at a median of 1,792 sq ftRangeview's 1,012 new houses permitted from 2023 to September 2026 had a median of 1,792 sq ft, and only 34 were 2,500 sq ft or more on the permit.Read the guide
- 5 min readRicardo Ranch, Calgary: 501 new homes since its first permits in 2024Ricardo Ranch had no building permits in 2023, then 501 new homes from 2024 to 29 September 2026: 246 houses, 228 semis and 27 townhouse permits.Read the guide
- 6 min readSeton, Calgary: 835 registered suites and the Southeast's townhousesSeton had 107 rowhouse and townhouse permits from 2023 to September 2026, the most of 97 Calgary communities and 30.5% of the Southeast's total.Read the guide
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