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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Killarney

Killarney is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 856 homes — 98.7% houses and 1.3% condos, most homes built around 1960. The typical (median) house is assessed at $320,500, 29% below the citywide median (253rd of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $352,500. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +18% from 2012 to 2025. 39% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $69,000, 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

856

98.7% houses · 1.3% condos

Typical house

$320,500

29% below citywide · 253rd of 277

Typical condo

$352,500

88% above citywide

House $/sq ft

$303

$3,261/m² · at citywide

Typical lot

6,717 ft²

624 m² · 25% above citywide

Typical age

1960

median house build year

Where it is

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

Map of Killarney, Edmonton — neighbourhood boundary, 4 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. 98.7% houses (freehold) · 1.3% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 98.7% Condos 1.3%
Building types in detail
Detached32%
Semi-detached14%
Row house (townhouse)14%
Apartment in a duplex14%
Apartment (low-rise)26%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)0%
1 bedroom17%
2 bedrooms26%
3 bedrooms35%
4+ bedrooms22%

9% 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 1960.

Full age breakdown
pre-1960390
1960s362
1970s46
1980s10
1990s6
2000s8
2010s4
2020s4

Condos & multi-family

4 condo developments here — about 11 condo dwellings, plus 52 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

4 condo developments, the largest around 4 units — about 11 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

52 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 197132 small (under $1M), 19 mid ($1–10M), 1 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

Mostly renters. Median household income $69,000.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$69,000

31% earn $100k+

Homeowners

39%

61% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

11%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

81%

drive · 13% transit · 5% walk/bike

Median age 34.8; 31% of households have kids at home; 55% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 34.8.

0–1421%
15–2413%
25–4430%
45–6425%
65+11%
Household income spread
Under $50k32%
$50k–$100k36%
$100k–$150k22%
$150k–$200k5%
$200k+4%

4% of households reported $200k or more; 32% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 30% of residents' 2020 income (including 10.4% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 18.6% 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 home17%
Couples without kids at home15%
One-parent families14%
Living alone34%
Multigenerational4%
Other shared households17%

Average household size 2.5; families with kids at home average 1.9 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Sales & service34%
Trades, transport & equipment operators30%
Business, finance & administration12%
Education, law, social & government7%
Health6%
Natural & applied sciences4%
Manufacturing & utilities4%
Senior management1%
Art, culture, recreation & sport1%
Natural resources & agriculture1%

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

Retail trade17%
Construction12%
Transportation & warehousing12%
Health care & social assistance10%
Administrative & support services8%
Accommodation & food services8%
Manufacturing7%
Other services7%
Educational services4%
Public administration4%
All other sectors combined12%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 19.6% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

19% of residents had moved within the previous year; 55% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Counts every change of address — moves within Killarney, 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 21% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,390/mo

54.5% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$1,200/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: 20.7% of owner households · 39.1% 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): 7.6% of owners · 31.4% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $324,000 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 Killarney: Mee-Yah-Noh, Killarney and Queen Elizabeth.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

Designated public schools (Edmonton Public Schools catchment for Killarney):

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 Killarney:

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). Catholic-school catchments aren’t published as open data, so Catholic schools are shown by location rather than catchment.

Shopping & amenities

About 104 businesses in Killarney, employing roughly 931 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 & dining17
Shops & retail25
Personal & health services17
Professional & office17
Trades, auto & industrial39
Other3
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

4 parks (18 hectares) and 2 playgrounds in Killarney — includes a district activity park.

Parks

4

18 hectares total

Playgrounds

2

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • School & community park2
  • District activity park1
  • Pocket park1

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 Killarney today. The nearest station is Coliseum (Capital Line), about 2.4 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 14 bus routes (2 frequent).

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is MacEwan Arts / 112 Street on the Valley Line West, about 5.2 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

2.4 km

to Coliseum

Bus routes

14

2 frequent

Future LRT

5.2 km

MacEwan Arts / 112 Street · under construction

Bus routes & notes

14 bus routes serve Killarney: 9, 106, 110X, 114, 120X, 130X, 150X, 610, 612, 613, 614, 624, 625 and 626. They run from 18 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

Frequent (≈ a bus every 15 min or better on a weekday): 9 and 114.

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Killarney, 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 Killarney's houses — largely the same homes throughout — so it's a real value change, not a shifting mix.

$272,000 $321,500 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 239 building permits, about 58 net new homes, and 47 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 48% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 53% purpose-built rental, and 0% in mixed-use buildings.

Owned Purpose-built rental

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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