St. Andrews Heights

Living in St. Andrews Heights

Housing in St. Andrews Heights runs a mixed inner-city NW profile — around 58% detached with about 42% condos or apartments, giving the community a mixed detached-plus-walk-up character rather than the extreme condo-dominant profile of the inner-city walk-up belt communities further south. Rental share sits around 47%, above the citywide baseline and reflecting the community’s medical/university corridor location that draws healthcare and research renters. Foothills Medical Centre inside the community’s northwest corner is one of Calgary’s largest hospital complexes and a defining employment anchor for many St. Andrews Heights households. McMahon Stadium sits northeast across 29 Street W as the University of Calgary football and event stadium — adjacent to the community boundary rather than inside. Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill sits directly south across Toronto Crescent as the same-batch peer, and University Heights and Banff Trail sit north across the Trans-Canada Highway as close inner-NW peers. For a same-batch peer community across the Toronto Crescent seam, the Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill profile is the direct south neighbour and closest reference; for a similar inner-NW community with a comparable medical/university-corridor character, the University Heights profile covers the direct north neighbour across the Trans-Canada Highway.

Things to do in St. Andrews Heights

Foothills Medical Centre inside the community’s northwest corner is the defining daily anchor for the community — one of Calgary’s largest hospital complexes with a wide network of clinics, research facilities, and staff-and-visitor services. McMahon Stadium northeast across 29 Street W hosts Calgary Stampeders CFL games, University of Calgary Dinos football, and the McMahon Stadium concert calendar — a defining outdoor event anchor for St. Andrews Heights households. Foothills Athletic Park borders the community to the northeast as another established Calgary sports complex with multiple fields and facilities used by community sports leagues and the wider inner-NW recreational network. The mix of Foothills Medical Centre, McMahon Stadium, Foothills Athletic Park, and University of Calgary within a short walk or drive gives St. Andrews Heights an unusual concentration of medical, sports, and academic anchors for such a small community footprint. The University of Calgary sits north across the Trans-Canada Highway as a defining educational and employment anchor for the wider inner-NW medical/academic corridor. There is no CTrain station inside St. Andrews Heights; the closest LRT is the University Red Line station a short north connection into University Heights. Any specific business inside or near the community is easiest to find through the St. Andrews Heights business directory, which pulls current City of Calgary business-licence records.

St. Andrews Heights’ resident base

St. Andrews Heights holds 1,345 residents across 539 properties on the community’s 1.2 km² inner-city NW footprint. The resident base runs a mid-to-high immigrant share around 31%, well above the citywide baseline, reflecting the community’s medical and university-corridor location that draws healthcare, research, and academic households from across Calgary and beyond. Rental share sits around 47%, driven by healthcare and university renters alongside the community’s mixed detached-plus-condo housing mix. Household incomes have historically run around the citywide median, in line with the community’s mixed inner-NW medical-corridor character. The school catchment picks up nearby CBE options — Branton Bilingual Junior High and Queen Elizabeth Junior/Senior High are the closest public secondary schools serving the community, with University Elementary handling the primary catchment and William Aberhart High School’s French Immersion program pulling students in from the wider inner-NW. For a similar inner-NW community with a comparable medical/university-corridor character, the University Heights profile covers the direct north neighbour; for another inner-NW community at a similar value range, the Parkdale profile covers a nearby S peer.

The St. Andrews Heights real-estate read

St. Andrews Heights’ average assessed value sits at $1.2M against the citywide $731K — well above the citywide average, reflecting the community’s inner-city NW medical/university-corridor location and mixed detached-plus-condo mix. Values rose 13.6% year-over-year against the citywide 15.2% pace, closely tracking the wider Calgary market during the current cycle. Building activity for the community’s inner-NW footprint sits at 100 permits filed since 2024, weighted toward interior renovations and infill redevelopment as older 1953 homes turn over on the assessment roll and medical/university corridor demand drives redevelopment. The community’s average build year sits around 1975, reflecting the original postwar establishment and later interior renovation cycles. On safety, disorder runs at 166.5 events per 1,000 residents against the citywide baseline of 59 per 1,000. Year-over-year, the community’s disorder rate rose compared with the year before. For a comparable inner-NW community at a similar price range, the West Hillhurst profile is a close reference on value.