Housing and change community signal

Permitted housing-form activity across Calgary communities

Relative breadth and diversity of recent residential permit classes, combined with permitted-unit intensity inside the official community boundary.

This page compares one public-data signal at a time. It is a shortlist tool rather than an overall ranking, and every leading record links to a full community profile with the underlying evidence and local context.

Published formula

Residential permit-form diversity 45%, represented form breadth 25%, attached-form share 20%, permitted housing-unit density 10%.

Permit classes describe filed building records, not completed homes, current inventory, builder quality or the final housing mix. Communities with fewer than 10 represented residential-form permit records are not scored.

Evidence used

This is a interpretive blend. The current ingredients include classified residential permits, represented housing-form breadth, attached-form permit share, permitted-unit density.

Communities with stronger measured support

Banff Trail: 95/100; Permit classes: 49 single-family, 48 two-family, 37 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Capitol Hill: 92/100; Permit classes: 53 single-family, 43 two-family, 29 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Erlton: 91/100; Permit classes: 9 single-family, 0 two-family, 6 townhouse and 5 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Highland Park: 93/100; Permit classes: 25 single-family, 31 two-family, 25 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Killarney/Glengarry: 93/100; Permit classes: 71 single-family, 69 two-family, 53 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Montgomery: 92/100; Permit classes: 44 single-family, 50 two-family, 33 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Red Carpet: 93/100; Permit classes: 6 single-family, 0 two-family, 13 townhouse and 2 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Shaganappi: 95/100; Permit classes: 21 single-family, 21 two-family, 20 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Sunalta: 93/100; Permit classes: 9 single-family, 0 two-family, 4 townhouse and 11 apartment permit-class records since 2024 Tuxedo Park: 94/100; Permit classes: 41 single-family, 36 two-family, 26 townhouse and 0 apartment permit-class records since 2024

These examples come from the stronger end of the measured-support range and are shown alphabetically. The score applies only to this named lens and is not an overall neighbourhood ranking.