2021 Census community profileWho lives in Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill—and what the data can actually tell us.
Population, household, tenure and mobility context from the official City profile, separated from assumptions about an individual buyer, seller or property.
Official referencesCity of Calgary and government records used for local context2 references +
Official records provide dated community context. Current listing status and conclusions about one property still require the applicable live record and property documents.
Households and mobility
A community snapshot with the reference year attached.
The profile counted 2,470 people in private households across 1,040 households, with an average household size of 2.4 people.
13% of the population was age 14 or younger, 21% was age 65 or older, 22% were immigrants. These figures describe Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill at the 2021 Census reference date and should not be read as a prediction of who will buy a particular home.
Across 1,040 private households, median total household income before tax was $111,000 in 2020; this is demographic context, not a measure of current purchasing power or home value.
845 residents aged five and older had moved within the prior five years (36%); that is household-mobility context rather than a proxy for real estate turnover.
550 members of the employed labour force used driver – car, truck or van as their main commute mode (76%), while 395 reported the most common duration, 15 to 29 minutes (54%).
Community evidence briefA fuller Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill foundation.
Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill is an inner-city northwest Calgary market that combines detached homes with low- and high-rise apartment choices across varied construction eras. The official 2021 Census profile counted 2,470 people in private households and 1,040 private households. Single-detached houses represented 57% of occupied private dwellings, low-rise apartments 20% and apartments in buildings over five storeys 13%. The profile recorded 33% of occupied dwellings in the 1960-or-before cohort and 30% from 1961 to 1980. Buyers and sellers therefore need property-form-specific comparisons, with site and view relationships, effective age, renovation and permit records, title or condominium documents, parking and immediate route context assessed at the address level.
How to read this brief
Exact community-profile evidence is used for this guide. Historical Census context, current listing status and address-specific property evidence remain separate layers.
Historical community evidence, current listing status and address-specific property records remain separate layers throughout the guide.
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