Huntington Hills

Living in Huntington Hills

Huntington Hills reads as established north-Calgary at street level. Most of the housing is 1970s single-family detached on standard suburban lots, with a real share of infill activity now showing up on the older lots as buyers replace the original bungalows with two-storey builds. Centre Street N carrying through the middle of the community is the practical spine — retail, bus service, and the north-south commute all track on that corridor rather than the community’s edges. Nose Hill Park along the western boundary is one of Calgary’s largest urban parks (over 11 square kilometres of native grassland and off-leash trails), and residents on the west side of the community have essentially direct pathway access. Nose Creek runs along the eastern boundary and gives residents pathway access into a smaller natural corridor that connects north into Bow Valley. Streetscapes reflect the community’s five-decade timeline: mature trees line most interior blocks, older bungalows sit next to houses that have been renovated once or twice, and the setback pattern is generous relative to newer NW communities where lots have shrunk. There’s no CTrain inside Huntington Hills; residents drive Deerfoot Trail east or Centre Street N south into the city, or take the BRT bus service that runs along Centre Street. For a similar established north-Calgary community with a comparable age profile, the Thorncliffe profile is the closest reference across 64 Avenue.

Things to do in Huntington Hills

Nose Hill Park along the western boundary is Huntington Hills’s biggest natural amenity — one of the largest urban parks in North America, with off-leash trails, native grassland, and views back over the city from the higher ground. Residents on the west side of the community can walk to a trailhead within a few blocks, and cyclists and runners use the park’s trail network year-round. Day-to-day retail happens along Centre Street N inside the community and at Deerfoot City to the northeast — one of the SE Calgary big-box corridors that also draws north-Calgary residents. Schools are Alex Munro, Catherine Nichols Gunn, Dr. J.K. Mulloy, and Huntington Hills elementaries, plus John G. Diefenbaker High and Sir John A MacDonald Junior High on the public side, plus St. Helena Junior High, St. Henry Elementary, and St. Hubert Elementary on the Catholic side — one of the fuller K-12 school catchments inside any Calgary community. Any specific business inside Huntington Hills itself is easiest to find through the Huntington Hills business directory, which pulls current City of Calgary business-licence records.

The Huntington Hills real-estate read

Huntington Hills’s average assessed value sits at $561K, below the citywide $732K — a reflection of the community’s older 1970s housing at a mid-tier north-Calgary price point. Values rose 17.2% year-over-year against the citywide 15.2%, ahead of the citywide gain — an established community whose Nose Hill Park adjacency and full school catchment are drawing buyers looking for value in mature-treed north-Calgary homes. Building activity is meaningful: 241 permits filed since 2024, split across new-construction infill and secondary-suite additions across the 1970s homes. The property values panel above shows the current distribution. On safety, disorder runs at 48.8 events per 1,000 residents — near the citywide baseline of 54 per 1,000 — and the year-over-year direction is held roughly steady compared with the year before. For a similar-value newer NW community for reference, the Rocky Ridge profile is the closest match on price; for a newer NW community at a comparable value point for contrast on era, the Royal Oak profile is the closer reference.