At a glance
A 1950s south-west community of about 650 residents, nearly all detached houses. About 98% of homes are detached, 80% of households own, and the median assessed value is about $774K. Police data shows crime well above the city median and disorder calls well above it, per resident.
- Median assessed home
- $775K 2026 assessment, all home types · city $575K
- Residents
- 680 estimate for mid-2025, up from 610 at the 2021 census
- Households renting
- 20% city 34%
- Permits per year
- 39 2021–2025 average
What the numbers mean
- The median assessed home is $775K, 35% above the Calgary median of $575K.
- 20% of households rent, well below the 34% city-wide. Most people here own and stay a while.
- 98% of homes are single-family houses, versus 55% city-wide.
- Construction is very active: about 39 building permits a year, 4.1× the city rate per resident. Expect new homes, new neighbours and some dust.
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
- Downtown10 min drive · 27 min bike
- Foothills and UCalgary14 min drive · 48 min bike
- Airport24 min drive · 1 h 17 min bike
- SE industrial13 min drive · 44 min bike
Transit times aren't included yet. Check Calgary Transit's trip planner for a weekday 8:00 a.m. trip.
Daily errands on foot2
Places within the community or a 5-minute walk of its edge, compared with the typical community in Calgary.
- Supermarkets
- 1 city median 2
- Cafés and bakeries
- 9 city median 4
- Pharmacies and clinics
- 14 city median 4
- Playgrounds and dog parks
- 7 city median 15
Assessed value by home type3
The overall median mixes house types, so it can match none of them. Split by type, 2026 assessments:
- Detached house
- $774K 278 homes · city $718K
- Semi-detached or row
- — too few in the Meadowlark Park roll to report
- Condo or apartment
- — too few in the Meadowlark Park roll to report
Estimated property tax4
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
- $5,150 a year about $430 a month on a $774K assessment
Upfront closing costs5
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
- $820 on $775K
Household income and housing costs6
What households here earn and how much of it housing takes, 2021 Census.
- Median household income
- $80,000 2020, before tax
- Spend 30%+ on housing
- 33% of owner and tenant households
- Owners' monthly cost
- $1,210 median shelter cost
- Tenants' monthly cost
- $1,310 median shelter cost
Typical apartment rent nearby7
Meadowlark Park 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 noise8
None of Meadowlark Park lies inside the City's regulatory flood map.
Meadowlark Park is outside the airport's noise forecast contours (NEF 25 and above).
Schools9
- No public, Catholic, French-language or charter school is located inside Meadowlark Park. From the middle of the community, the nearest elementary school is about 0.9 km away, the nearest junior high 0.9 km and the nearest high school 1.2 km. 5 other elementary schools lie within 2 km.
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 access10
About 49% of Meadowlark Park is within an 800 m walk (roughly 10 minutes) of Chinook station on the Red Line. Many homes here can walk to the train.
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 for11
- Teardowns and infill
- 0.6 a year Demolitions plus new semis, rowhouses and townhouses: construction noise, dumpsters and change on the street
- Secondary suites
- 1.2 a year New basement, garage and garden suites: more rental homes and more cars on the street
- Home improvements
- 5.6 a year Renovations, additions and decks: owners investing in homes they plan to keep
Safety12
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
- 145.6 per 1,000 · above the 13.5 median
- Disorder calls
- 588.2 per 1,000 · above the 32.1 median
- Violent crime
- 50.0 per 1,000 · median 2.3
- Property crime
- 95.6 per 1,000 · median 10.6
- Reported crime runs about 10.8× the median Calgary community: 145.6 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, versus 13.5.
- The most common reported crime is theft from vehicles, 29% of the total. 66% of incidents are property crime.
- Crime has fallen since 2020: 112 reported incidents in 2025 versus 146 in 2020.
- So far in 2026 (January to September) there have been 75 incidents, 15% fewer than the same months of 2025.
- Busy main streets, transit and nightlife bring in visitors, and incidents are counted where they happen, not where people live.
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.