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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Laurier Heights

Laurier Heights is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 994 homes — 99.8% houses and 0.2% condos, most homes built around 1961. The typical (median) house is assessed at $705,000, 57% above the citywide median (19th of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $590,750. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +40% from 2012 to 2025. 82% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $144,000, and 2 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

994

99.8% houses · 0.2% condos

Typical house

$705,000

57% above citywide · 19th of 277

Typical condo

$590,750

214% above citywide

House $/sq ft

$443

$4,768/m² · 46% above citywide

Typical lot

7,782 ft²

723 m² · 45% above citywide

Typical age

1961

median house build year

Where it is

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

Map of Laurier Heights, Edmonton — neighbourhood boundary, 1 school, 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. 99.8% houses (freehold) · 0.2% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 99.8% Condos 0.2%
Building types in detail
Detached88%
Apartment in a duplex1%
Apartment (low-rise)7%
Apartment (high-rise)3%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)1%
1 bedroom9%
2 bedrooms5%
3 bedrooms28%
4+ bedrooms57%

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 1961.

Full age breakdown
pre-1960403
1960s331
1970s73
1980s26
1990s5
2000s20
2010s49
2020s33

Condos & multi-family

1 condo development here — about 2 condo dwellings, plus 2 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

1 condo development — about 2 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

2 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 20092 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 homeowners. Median household income $144,000.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$144,000

67% earn $100k+

Homeowners

82%

18% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

54%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

88%

drive · 1% transit · 9% walk/bike

Median age 48.4; 43% of households have kids at home; 28% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 48.4.

0–1417%
15–2410%
25–4419%
45–6427%
65+28%
Household income spread
Under $50k9%
$50k–$100k21%
$100k–$150k20%
$150k–$200k16%
$200k+31%

31% of households reported $200k or more; 9% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 7.3% of residents' 2020 income (including 1.5% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 3.9% 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 home34%
Couples without kids at home25%
One-parent families9%
Living alone27%
Other shared households4%

Average household size 2.4; families with kids at home average 1.8 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Business, finance & administration21%
Education, law, social & government20%
Sales & service18%
Health15%
Natural & applied sciences11%
Trades, transport & equipment operators5%
Art, culture, recreation & sport4%
Senior management3%
Manufacturing & utilities2%
Natural resources & agriculture1%

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

Health care & social assistance20%
Professional, scientific & technical16%
Educational services11%
Retail trade9%
Public administration8%
Finance & insurance5%
Construction4%
Wholesale trade4%
Real estate & leasing4%
Arts, entertainment & recreation4%
All other sectors combined15%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 8.7% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

6% of residents had moved within the previous year; 28% lived at a different address five years earlier.

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

Housing costs & affordability

A household earning the local median income would put about 12% of it toward typical owner shelter costs here — or 21% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,400/mo

45.9% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$2,500/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: 9.3% of owner households · 56.4% 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): 0% of owners · 0% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $720,000 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

2 designated public schools. Edmonton Public catchment for Laurier Heights: Laurier Heights and Ross Sheppard.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

Designated public schools (Edmonton Public Schools catchment for Laurier Heights):

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 Laurier Heights:

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 20 businesses in Laurier Heights, employing roughly 183 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 & dining2
Shops & retail6
Personal & health services4
Recreation & fitness1
Professional & office20
Trades, auto & industrial13
Other4
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 46% of licences here). Landlord rental licences are excluded, and a listing isn't an endorsement.

Parks & green space

5 parks (6.9 hectares) and 3 playgrounds in Laurier Heights.

Parks

5

6.9 hectares total

Playgrounds

3

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • Pocket park3
  • Other green space1
  • School & community 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 Laurier Heights today. The nearest station is McKernan Belgravia (Capital Line), about 2.9 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 4 bus routes.

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is Meadowlark on the Valley Line West, about 1.9 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

2.9 km

to McKernan Belgravia

Bus routes

4

serving the area

Future LRT

1.9 km

Meadowlark · under construction

Bus routes & notes

4 bus routes serve Laurier Heights: 2, 4, 682 and 904. They run from 15 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

No route here meets the frequent-service bar (≈ 15-minute weekday headway).

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Laurier Heights, 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 +40% from 2012 to 2025.

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

$514,750 $722,000 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 591 building permits, about 148 net new homes, and 10 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 49% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 51% 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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