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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Ritchie

Ritchie is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 1,826 homes — 63.1% houses and 36.9% condos, most homes built around 1957. The typical (median) house is assessed at $445,000, 1% below the citywide median (146th of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $249,500. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +51% from 2012 to 2025. 53% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $82,000, 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

1,826

63.1% houses · 36.9% condos

Typical house

$445,000

1% below citywide · 146th of 277

Typical condo

$249,500

33% above citywide

House $/sq ft

$377

$4,058/m² · 24% above citywide

Condo $/sq ft

$249

$2,680/m² · 31% above citywide

Typical lot

4,381 ft²

407 m² · 18% below citywide

Typical age

1957

median house build year

Where it is

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

Map of Ritchie, Edmonton — neighbourhood boundary, 2 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. 63.1% houses (freehold) · 36.9% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 63.1% Condos 36.9%
Building types in detail
Detached39%
Semi-detached1%
Row house (townhouse)2%
Apartment in a duplex11%
Apartment (low-rise)39%
Apartment (high-rise)6%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)1%
1 bedroom23%
2 bedrooms38%
3 bedrooms23%
4+ bedrooms15%

8% 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 1957.

Full age breakdown
pre-1960593
1960s65
1970s66
1980s37
1990s37
2000s44
2010s225
2020s65

Condos & multi-family

42 condo developments here — about 673 condo dwellings, plus 56 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

42 condo developments, the largest around 192 units — about 673 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

56 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 197526 small (under $1M), 28 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 $82,000.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$82,000

41% earn $100k+

Homeowners

53%

47% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

47%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

79%

drive · 8% transit · 12% walk/bike

Median age 35.6; 43% of households are people living alone; 53% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 35.6.

0–1412%
15–2410%
25–4444%
45–6421%
65+13%
Household income spread
Under $50k30%
$50k–$100k30%
$100k–$150k19%
$150k–$200k11%
$200k+11%

11% of households reported $200k or more; 30% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 12.8% of residents' 2020 income (including 4.6% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 10.6% 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 home13%
Couples without kids at home25%
One-parent families5%
Living alone43%
Other shared households14%

Average household size 1.9; families with kids at home average 1.5 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Sales & service21%
Education, law, social & government16%
Business, finance & administration14%
Natural & applied sciences13%
Health13%
Trades, transport & equipment operators11%
Art, culture, recreation & sport6%
Manufacturing & utilities3%
Natural resources & agriculture2%
Senior management1%

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

Health care & social assistance15%
Professional, scientific & technical13%
Retail trade11%
Educational services10%
Public administration8%
Construction7%
Manufacturing6%
Accommodation & food services5%
Arts, entertainment & recreation4%
Other services4%
All other sectors combined17%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 9.8% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

21% of residents had moved within the previous year; 53% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Counts every change of address — moves within Ritchie, 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 19% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,620/mo

59% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$1,330/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: 20.2% of owner households · 35.4% 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): 8.2% of owners · 15.7% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $400,000 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 Ritchie: Hazeldean and Strathcona.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

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

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 Ritchie:

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 272 businesses in Ritchie, employing roughly 2,378 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 & dining36
Shops & retail50
Personal & health services43
Recreation & fitness7
Professional & office61
Trades, auto & industrial61
Other21
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 23% of licences here). Landlord rental licences are excluded, and a listing isn't an endorsement.

Parks & green space

4 parks (6 hectares) and 2 playgrounds in Ritchie.

Parks

4

6 hectares total

Playgrounds

2

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • School & community park2
  • Pocket park1
  • Urban village 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 Ritchie today. The nearest station is Avonmore (Valley Line Southeast), about 1.9 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 7 bus routes (2 frequent).

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is MacEwan Arts / 112 Street on the Valley Line West, about 4.2 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

1.9 km

to Avonmore

Bus routes

7

2 frequent

Future LRT

4.2 km

MacEwan Arts / 112 Street · under construction

Bus routes & notes

7 bus routes serve Ritchie: 4, 8, 501, 523, 525, 637 and 656. They run from 27 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

Frequent (≈ a bus every 15 min or better on a weekday): 4 and 523.

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Ritchie, 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 +51% from 2012 to 2025.

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

$296,500 $447,250 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 1,228 building permits, about 444 net new homes, and 88 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 56% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 14% purpose-built rental, and 31% 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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