At a glance
A 1950s south community of about 3,600 residents. About 78% of homes are detached and 19% are apartments, 67% of households own, and the median assessed value is about $622K. Police data shows crime above the city median and disorder calls well above it, per resident.
- Median assessed home
- $623K 2026 assessment, all home types · city $575K
- Residents
- 4,010 estimate for mid-2025, up from 3,675 at the 2021 census
- Households renting
- 33% city 34%
- Permits per year
- 33 2021–2025 average
What the numbers mean
- The median assessed home is $623K, close to the Calgary median of $575K.
- 33% of households rent, close to the 34% city-wide.
- 78% of homes are single-family houses, versus 55% city-wide.
- Building activity is lighter than the city as a whole, at about 33 permits a year.
Who lives here
Share of residents by age, 2021 census.
Homes
Share of homes by type, 2019 civic census.
Getting to work1
Drive, no traffic Bike
- Downtown12 min drive · 36 min bike
- Foothills and UCalgary18 min drive · 1 h bike
- Airport22 min drive · 1 h 26 min bike
- SE industrial11 min drive · 39 min bike
Transit times aren't included yet. Check Calgary Transit's trip planner for a weekday 8:00 a.m. trip.
Off-leash dog parks2
2 off-leash areas inside the community. 1 more area within 150 m of the boundary.
- Fairview, fenced in part or with other fencing
- Fairview (Flint Road Slope), no fencing recorded
Daily errands on foot3
Places within the community or a 5-minute walk of its edge, compared with the typical community in Calgary.
- Supermarkets
- 3 city median 2
- Cafés and bakeries
- 5 city median 4
- Pharmacies and clinics
- 6 city median 4
- Playgrounds and dog parks
- 13 city median 15
Assessed value by home type4
The overall median mixes house types, so it can match none of them. Split by type, 2026 assessments:
- Detached house
- $623K 1,253 homes · city $718K
- Semi-detached or row
- — too few in the Fairview roll to report
- Condo or apartment
- — too few in the Fairview roll to report
Estimated property tax5
What owning here costs each year in property tax at the median assessed value. Renters don’t pay it directly, but landlords pass it on.
- Detached house
- $4,140 a year about $345 a month on a $623K assessment
Upfront closing costs6
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:
- Land title transfer fee
- $670 on $623K
Household income and housing costs7
What households here earn and how much of it housing takes, 2021 Census.
- Median household income
- $95,200 2020, before tax
- Spend 30%+ on housing
- 15% of owner and tenant households
- Owners' monthly cost
- $1,320 median shelter cost
- Tenants' monthly cost
- $1,510 median shelter cost
Typical apartment rent nearby8
Fairview sits in CMHC's Chinook survey zone. October 2025 average rent of purpose-built rental apartments in that zone:
- Studio
- $1,563 +$125 vs metro average
- 1 bedroom
- $1,524 −$57 vs metro average
- 2 bedroom
- $1,864 −$44 vs metro average
- 3 bedroom or more
- $1,989 −$129 vs metro average
Flood and airport noise9
None of Fairview lies inside the City's regulatory flood map.
Fairview is outside the airport's noise forecast contours (NEF 25 and above).
Schools10
- 2 schools are located in Fairview.
- There is no high school inside the community. From the middle of Fairview, the nearest high school is about 1.1 km away.
- Enrolment is steady, up 3% since 2019-20 across 2 schools.
- Le Roi Daniels
- Fairview
The school nearest the house may not be the school your child is assigned to. Boards assign a designated school by street address, and a community can be split across several, or have none inside its boundary. The boards don’t publish these attendance areas as open data, only an address lookup: use the CBE Find a School tool (including French Immersion and IB) or contact the Calgary Catholic School District with the exact address before you rent or buy. Capped schools can also place new students elsewhere.
We don’t rate schools: test results are not open data, so a school’s quality is something to ask about on a visit.
LRT access11
The closest part of Fairview is 0.3 km from Heritage station (Red Line). About 12% of the community is inside an 800 m walk, so it depends on the street.
How it's changing
Building permits issued each year, a leading signal of new homes and renovations.
*2026 is year to date.
What the building permits are for12
- Teardowns and infill
- 0 a year Demolitions plus new semis, rowhouses and townhouses: construction noise, dumpsters and change on the street
- Secondary suites
- 4.2 a year New basement, garage and garden suites: more rental homes and more cars on the street
- Home improvements
- 17 a year Renovations, additions and decks: owners investing in homes they plan to keep
Safety13
Reported incidents in the last 12 months (October 2025 to September 2026), per 1,000 residents, compared with the median of 177 Calgary communities.
- Reported crime
- 16.5 per 1,000 · a little above the 13.5 median
- Disorder calls
- 59.1 per 1,000 · above the 32.1 median
- Violent crime
- 3.5 per 1,000 · median 2.3
- Property crime
- 13.0 per 1,000 · median 10.6
- Reported crime runs about 22% above the median Calgary community: 16.5 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, versus 13.5.
- The most common reported crime is theft from vehicles, 36% of the total. 79% of incidents are property crime.
- Crime has fallen since 2020: 86 reported incidents in 2025 versus 125 in 2020.
- So far in 2026 (January to September) there have been 48 incidents, 29% fewer than the same months of 2025.
Crime per 1,000 residents
Disorder calls per 1,000 residents
What gets reported
Top crime types in the rate, same period.
Disorder calls
Most common non-criminal calls to police.
Reported crime by year
*2026 is year to date.