Best Calgary neighbourhoods for an Investor

Where do rental demand, yield and appreciation line up for a buy-to-let purchase? 200 of 202 Calgary neighbourhoods qualify, top 25 shown. Updated 2026.

How this ranking is built
No hard filter

This page applies no hard filter. An investor's real constraints (financing, target yield, unit type) are set by the deal rather than the neighbourhood, so everything with enough evidence is ranked and the yield signal is shown per row.

200 of 202 neighbourhoods qualify, 2 excluded.

Then ranked on
rental yield25%value growth20%entry price15%transit access15%safety15%development activity10%

These weights are our judgment about what this situation usually calls for, not a fact about the city. They are published here so you can disagree with them.

1
Medicine Hill
100 value growth83 development activity54 entry price

Trade-off: transit access at 35 out of 100.

No data for rental yield. Scored on the 75% of factors we have.

65
2
Belvedere
97 value growth96 entry price96 development activity

Trade-off: transit access at 0 out of 100.

No data for rental yield. Scored on the 75% of factors we have.

64
3
Hotchkiss
100 value growth98 development activity62 safety

Trade-off: transit access at 0 out of 100.

No data for rental yield. Scored on the 75% of factors we have.

64
4
Country Hills
54 rental yield59 value growth75 transit access

Trade-off: safety at 47 out of 100.

60
5
Penbrooke Meadows
72 value growth81 entry price47 rental yield

Trade-off: development activity at 31 out of 100.

59
6
Roxboro
87 value growth74 transit access90 development activity

Trade-off: entry price at 2 out of 100.

No data for rental yield. Scored on the 75% of factors we have.

59
7
Currie Barracks
100 value growth93 entry price64 transit access

Trade-off: rental yield at 3 out of 100.

58
8
Forest Heights
82 entry price59 value growth77 transit access

Trade-off: development activity at 26 out of 100.

58
9
Queensland
82 value growth50 rental yield62 safety

Trade-off: development activity at 43 out of 100.

58
10
Belmont
98 value growth43 rental yield67 entry price

Trade-off: transit access at 3 out of 100.

57
11
Deer Ridge
87 value growth67 entry price59 safety

Trade-off: rental yield at 30 out of 100.

57
12
Falconridge
79 entry price78 transit access43 rental yield

Trade-off: safety at 42 out of 100.

57
13
Wolf Willow
97 value growth77 entry price69 safety

Trade-off: transit access at 2 out of 100.

57
14
Cedarbrae
87 value growth66 entry price36 rental yield

Trade-off: rental yield at 36 out of 100.

56
15
Downtown West End
98 transit access97 entry price53 rental yield

Trade-off: value growth at 11 out of 100.

56
16
Midnapore
84 value growth62 safety37 rental yield

Trade-off: rental yield at 37 out of 100.

56
17
Millrise
66 value growth48 rental yield61 entry price

Trade-off: rental yield at 48 out of 100.

56
18
Red Carpet
91 value growth61 rental yield79 entry price

Trade-off: development activity at 20 out of 100.

56
19
Shawnee Slopes
89 value growth98 entry price92 development activity

Trade-off: rental yield at 18 out of 100.

56
20
Vista Heights
85 value growth76 entry price44 rental yield

Trade-off: development activity at 26 out of 100.

56
21
Castleridge
88 transit access72 entry price46 value growth

Trade-off: rental yield at 36 out of 100.

55
22
Elbow Park
81 value growth92 development activity55 safety

Trade-off: entry price at 2 out of 100.

No data for rental yield. Scored on the 75% of factors we have.

55
23
Coventry Hills
70 value growth49 rental yield63 safety

Trade-off: transit access at 31 out of 100.

54
24
Forest Lawn
67 value growth82 entry price77 transit access

Trade-off: rental yield at 30 out of 100.

54
25
Harvest Hills
60 value growth39 rental yield60 transit access

Trade-off: rental yield at 39 out of 100.

54

Frequently asked

What is the best Calgary neighbourhood for an Investor?
On this ranking, Medicine Hill leads at 65 out of 100, driven by value growth, development activity, entry price. Belvedere and Hotchkiss follow. There is no single best neighbourhood: this is the ranking that falls out of the priorities published above, and different priorities give a different order.
How is the Investor ranking calculated?
All 202 recommendable Calgary neighbourhoods are scored on a weighted blend of rental yield 25%, value growth 20%, entry price 15%, transit access 15%, safety 15%, development activity 10%, using population-weighted dissemination-area data. The weighting is our editorial judgment about what this situation usually calls for, published here so you can disagree with it and re-rank on your own priorities.
What data is missing from this ranking?
Scores are computed only where the underlying data exists. A factor with no data for a neighbourhood is dropped from that neighbourhood's average rather than scored as zero, and each row states which factors were unavailable. Neighbourhoods with data for less than half their weighted factors are not ranked at all.
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