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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Alberta Avenue

Alberta Avenue is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 2,298 homes — 93.7% houses and 6.3% condos, most homes built around 1943. The typical (median) house is assessed at $240,000, 47% below the citywide median (276th of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $319,500. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +18% from 2012 to 2025. 56% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $67,500, and 3 public schools are designated for it. Figures throughout are City assessed values — directional and comparative, not exact sale prices ("typical" means the median).

Total homes

2,298

93.7% houses · 6.3% condos

Typical house

$240,000

47% below citywide · 276th of 277

Typical condo

$319,500

70% above citywide

House $/sq ft

$230

$2,476/m² · 24% below citywide

Condo $/sq ft

$290

$3,122/m² · 53% above citywide

Typical lot

3,961 ft²

368 m² · 26% below citywide

Typical age

1943

median house build year

Where it is

At a glance.Alberta Avenue's location and boundary, with schools marked — green areas are parks and open space.

Map of Alberta Avenue, Edmonton — neighbourhood boundary, 3 schools, parks and surrounding streets.
Neighbourhood boundary outlined in sand; schools pinned in teal. Schools shown are those inside the boundary, plus designated schools that fall inside this view. Map data © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap.

The homes

What's built here — the housing stock, its age, and the condo & rental supply.

What's here

Mostly houses. 93.7% houses (freehold) · 6.3% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 93.7% Condos 6.3%
Building types in detail
Detached62%
Semi-detached3%
Row house (townhouse)0%
Apartment in a duplex12%
Apartment (low-rise)23%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)1%
1 bedroom21%
2 bedrooms26%
3 bedrooms32%
4+ bedrooms21%

15% of homes needed major repairs in 2021, as assessed by their own residents.

Building-type, bedroom and condition figures from the 2021 federal census.

When it was built

Most homes here were built before 1960. The median build year is 1943.

Full age breakdown
pre-19601,588
1960s76
1970s102
1980s37
1990s73
2000s100
2010s105
2020s21

Condos & multi-family

62 condo developments here — about 145 condo dwellings, plus 71 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

62 condo developments, the largest around 16 units — about 145 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

71 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 198254 small (under $1M), 15 mid ($1–10M), 2 large (over $10M). Purpose-built rentals (assessed as a single parcel each), separate from the owned homes counted above. Unit counts aren't in the open data.

Living here

The people and the day-to-day — who lives here, and the schools, shops, parks and transit around them.

Who lives here

An even owner / renter mix. Median household income $67,500.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$67,500

28% earn $100k+

Homeowners

56%

44% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

19%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

79%

drive · 13% transit · 6% walk/bike

Median age 40; 44% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 40.

0–1414%
15–2411%
25–4433%
45–6429%
65+13%
Household income spread
Under $50k36%
$50k–$100k36%
$100k–$150k18%
$150k–$200k8%
$200k+2%

2% of households reported $200k or more; 36% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 29.2% of residents' 2020 income (including 10.8% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 14.4% of residents were below the low-income measure (LIM-AT).

Household total income, 2020, from the 2021 federal census (income shares and low-income prevalence as reported). Statistics Canada rounds and suppresses small counts, so shares may not sum exactly to 100.

Households & families
Couples with kids at home16%
Couples without kids at home18%
One-parent families10%
Living alone38%
Multigenerational3%
Other shared households15%

Average household size 2.3; families with kids at home average 1.7 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Sales & service26%
Trades, transport & equipment operators25%
Business, finance & administration14%
Education, law, social & government14%
Natural & applied sciences6%
Health6%
Art, culture, recreation & sport4%
Manufacturing & utilities4%
Natural resources & agriculture1%

Industries residents work in (top 10; the rest combined):

Health care & social assistance13%
Construction11%
Retail trade9%
Educational services8%
Accommodation & food services8%
Transportation & warehousing7%
Administrative & support services7%
Manufacturing6%
Public administration6%
Professional, scientific & technical5%
All other sectors combined22%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 16.8% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

15% of residents had moved within the previous year; 44% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Counts every change of address — moves within Alberta Avenue, into it, owners and renters alike.

Housing costs & affordability

A household earning the local median income would put about 24% of it toward typical owner shelter costs here — or 20% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,350/mo

67.1% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$1,100/mo

median tenant shelter cost

Affordability in detail

Households spending 30% or more of their own income on their own shelter — the standard affordability-stress measure: 18.5% of owner households · 42.1% of renter households. (Different from the headline above, which compares the median cost against the median income — a typical-household what-if, not a count of stretched households.)

In core housing need (unaffordable, unsuitable or inadequate, with no affordable local alternative): 11% of owners · 29.9% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $260,000 median — self-reported, so it can differ from the assessed medians above.

Owner costs reflect current owners — including long-time, mortgage-free ones — not the cost to buy in today. The income-share figures compare 2020 median household income with shelter costs reported in 2021.

Schools

3 designated public schools. Edmonton Public catchment for Alberta Avenue: Delton, Victoria and Spruce Avenue.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

Designated public schools (Edmonton Public Schools catchment for Alberta Avenue):

Catchments are set by the school board and can change — and the City's published catchment data can lag new schools and boundary updates — so confirm the current designated school with Edmonton Public Schools before relying on it.

Schools located in Alberta Avenue:

Independent / private schools aren't in the City's open data, so they aren't listed here. School-quality ratings are published separately by the Fraser Institute (not affiliated with this site).

Shopping & amenities

About 179 businesses in Alberta Avenue, employing roughly 1,567 people.

Business mix & how this is counted

From the City's business census (2025 survey).

The mix of what's here, from currently-licensed businesses:

Food & dining29
Shops & retail56
Personal & health services25
Recreation & fitness1
Professional & office45
Trades, auto & industrial40
Other13
Everyday amenities Other businesses

Counts come from City of Edmonton business licences and the City's business census — a licence means a business is registered at an address here, not a guarantee it's open today , and includes home-based businesses (about 27% of licences here). Landlord rental licences are excluded, and a listing isn't an endorsement.

Parks & green space

11 parks (6.7 hectares) and 6 playgrounds in Alberta Avenue — includes a greenway (trail corridor).

Parks

11

6.7 hectares total

Playgrounds

6

4 wheelchair-accessible

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • Pocket park4
  • School & community park3
  • Greenway2
  • Urban village park2

Counts come from the City of Edmonton's parks and playgrounds open data. A park is attributed to the neighbourhood its centre point falls in, so a large park or greenway that spans several areas is counted once — treat boundaries as approximate. Trail corridors appear here as greenways; off-street bike routes aren't included.

Transit & connectivity

No LRT line in Alberta Avenue today. The nearest station is Stadium (Capital Line), about 1.3 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 11 bus routes (3 frequent).

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is MacEwan Arts / 112 Street on the Valley Line West, about 3.1 km from the centre — under construction, targeted to open later this decade. Timelines can slip, and a nearby line doesn't imply any change in property values.

Nearest LRT

1.3 km

to Stadium

Bus routes

11

3 frequent

Future LRT

3.1 km

MacEwan Arts / 112 Street · under construction

Bus routes & notes

11 bus routes serve Alberta Avenue: 3, 5, 8, 9, 102, 103, 110X, 111, 120X, 130X and 150X. They run from 36 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

Frequent (≈ a bus every 15 min or better on a weekday): 5, 8 and 9.

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Alberta Avenue, with “frequent” meaning at least 100 weekday trips through the neighbourhood (about a bus every 15 minutes or better, counting both directions). Distances are straight-line (“as the crow flies”) from the neighbourhood centre — the actual walking or driving route is longer. Future stations are under construction; their locations and timelines come from City of Edmonton project pages and can change. Day-to-day commute mode (drive / transit / walk) is shown under “Who lives here.” Source: City of Edmonton LRT & ETS (GTFS) Open Data.

The market

Assessed value over time, and recent building activity.

Assessed value over time

Median assessed value changed +18% from 2012 to 2025.

That tracks Alberta Avenue's houses — largely the same homes throughout — so it's a real value change, not a shifting mix.

$205,000 $241,500 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 980 building permits, about 443 net new homes, and 137 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 84% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 9% purpose-built rental, and 7% in mixed-use buildings.

Owned Purpose-built rental Mixed-use

Split by building type (a strong proxy, not a guarantee of final tenure).

Permits year by year

Permits count every new home built — including purpose-built rental apartments and mixed-use buildings — so this can run well above the "total homes" figure above, which counts only individually-owned houses and condos.

Source

City of Edmonton Open Data — assessment, property info, building permits; Statistics Canada 2021 Census of Population (City of Edmonton neighbourhood tabulation). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton.

About these figures. They use the City of Edmonton's annual property assessment — its mass-appraisal estimate of value as of July 1 the prior year, informed by that year's sales but applied across the whole roll at once. That makes it a reliable directional and comparative signal (ideal for "how does this neighbourhood compare"), but not the exact price a specific home would sell for today — for that you need a comparative market analysis. Resident demographics and housing-cost figures (income and its distribution, age, education, commute, tenure, household types, shelter costs, occupations and industries, mobility) and the building-type, bedroom and condition mix are from the 2021 federal census — the most recent neighbourhood-level vintage; the City notes it fell during the pandemic, so treat these figures as directional. Census figures are adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Trevor Tardif is a licensed REALTOR® with REAL Broker AB Ltd, Edmonton, Alberta. Content on this site does not constitute financial or investment advice.

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