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Newer suburb · Strathmore, Calgary

Aspen Creek and Edgefield

Newer east-side homes beside the Highway 1 shopping

  • Families with kids
  • Buyers wanting new builds
  • Commuters
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Aspen Creek and Edgefield in context. Neighbouring areas link to their guides. Boundaries: City of Calgary and Statistics Canada.

At a glance

Aspen Creek and Edgefield are Strathmore's newer eastern subdivisions of detached houses and townhouses, beside the Co-op, Walmart and Sobeys on the east side of town. About 58% of homes are detached and 0% are apartments, 13% of households rent, and owners valued the median home at about $353K in the 2021 census.

Median home value (est.)
$442K*
* est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $543K
Residents
4,170
scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 3,505 at the 2021 census
Households renting
13%
city 34%
Homes that are apartments
0%
city 23%

What the numbers mean

  • Owners valued the median home at $353K in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Calgary MLS® Home Price Index (+25% since then), that is about $442K, 19% below the Calgary-area towns median of $543K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
  • 13% of households rent, well below the 34% city-wide. Most people here own and stay a while.
  • 20% are 65 or older, versus 13% city-wide, a sign of long-time residents and a settled pace.

Who lives here

Share of residents by age, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 3,505 at the 2021 census.

0-1420%
15-197%
20-244%
25-3413%
35-4415%
45-5411%
55-6411%
65+20%

Homes

Share of homes by type, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 3,505 at the 2021 census.

Single-detached65%
Semi-detached24%
Row house10%
Duplex flat0%
Apartment under 5 storeys0%
Apartment 5+ storeys0%

Upfront closing costs1

Alberta has no land transfer tax; the Land Titles transfer fee is about 0.1% of the price. Government fees at the median home price: This uses the census home value indexed to September 2026 prices, so treat it as an estimate.

Land title transfer fee
$490
on $442K

Schools2

  • No public school is mapped inside Aspen Creek and Edgefield.
  • The closest is about 0.1 km from its edge in a straight line.
  • 7 public schools lie within 2 km of its edge.

The school nearest the house may not be the school your child is assigned to. School boards assign a designated school by street address, and a neighbourhood can be split across several or have none inside its boundary. Use your school board’s school locator with the exact address before you rely on a school.

We don’t rate schools: test results are not comparable across provinces, so a school’s quality is something to ask about on a visit.

How it's changing

These municipalities don't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.

Safety

Neighbourhood-level crime figures aren't available for Strathmore. Policing there is by the RCMP or a municipal police department, and neither publishes open crime counts by neighbourhood. Check Statistics Canada's crime tables for municipality-wide trends, and the local police website for crime maps. Why this is missing.

Sources and notes

  1. Source: Government of Alberta, Land Titles and Surveys fee schedule. 2026 rules, applied to this neighbourhood's median census home value, indexed to September 2026 with the MLS® HPI. A mortgage adds its own registration fee on the loan amount on the same $50 + $5 per $5,000 scale. Legal fees, title insurance, inspection and adjustments are extra. ↩
  2. Schools: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Educational Facilities (version 2.1, built from provincial and municipal open data between 2019 and 2022), matched to the neighbourhood boundary. Schools that opened, closed or moved since then may be wrong or missing, and school boards sometimes change grade levels. Private schools are counted but not listed. Distances are straight-line from the edge of the neighbourhood. ↩

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