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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Westmount

Westmount is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 2,664 homes — 51.8% houses and 48.2% condos, most homes built around 1953. The typical (median) house is assessed at $537,250, 20% above the citywide median (67th of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $170,750. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +41% from 2012 to 2025. 53% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $84,000, 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

2,664

51.8% houses · 48.2% condos

Typical house

$537,250

20% above citywide · 67th of 277

Typical condo

$170,750

9% below citywide

House $/sq ft

$344

$3,703/m² · 13% above citywide

Condo $/sq ft

$209

$2,250/m² · 10% above citywide

Typical lot

6,501 ft²

604 m² · 21% above citywide

Typical age

1953

median house build year

Where it is

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

Map of Westmount, 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

A mix of houses and condos. 51.8% houses (freehold) · 48.2% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 51.8% Condos 48.2%
Building types in detail
Detached38%
Semi-detached4%
Row house (townhouse)1%
Apartment in a duplex3%
Apartment (low-rise)52%
Apartment (high-rise)3%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)2%
1 bedroom29%
2 bedrooms31%
3 bedrooms21%
4+ bedrooms17%

10% 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 1953.

Full age breakdown
pre-1960807
1960s63
1970s72
1980s38
1990s37
2000s53
2010s205
2020s74

Condos & multi-family

49 condo developments here — about 1,284 condo dwellings, plus 71 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

49 condo developments, the largest around 184 units — about 1,284 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

71 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 197128 small (under $1M), 40 mid ($1–10M), 3 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 $84,000.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$84,000

43% earn $100k+

Homeowners

53%

47% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

40%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

80%

drive · 10% transit · 7% walk/bike

Median age 39.2; 45% of households are people living alone; 48% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 39.2.

0–1415%
15–248%
25–4437%
45–6427%
65+13%
Household income spread
Under $50k32%
$50k–$100k25%
$100k–$150k21%
$150k–$200k9%
$200k+13%

13% of households reported $200k or more; 32% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 12.2% of residents' 2020 income (including 4.5% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 11.6% 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 home19%
Couples without kids at home20%
One-parent families5%
Living alone45%
Multigenerational1%
Other shared households9%

Average household size 2; families with kids at home average 1.6 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Sales & service21%
Business, finance & administration19%
Education, law, social & government17%
Trades, transport & equipment operators13%
Natural & applied sciences9%
Health9%
Art, culture, recreation & sport6%
Manufacturing & utilities3%
Senior management2%
Natural resources & agriculture1%

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

Health care & social assistance14%
Professional, scientific & technical13%
Public administration10%
Retail trade9%
Educational services9%
Construction5%
Finance & insurance5%
Accommodation & food services5%
Other services5%
Manufacturing4%
All other sectors combined21%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 10.7% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

17% of residents had moved within the previous year; 48% lived at a different address five years earlier.

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

Housing costs & affordability

A household earning the local median income would put about 25% of it toward typical owner shelter costs here — or 15% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,740/mo

67.1% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$1,060/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: 17.5% of owner households · 39.4% 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): 6.4% of owners · 32% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $500,000 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 Westmount: Westglen, Westminster and Ross Sheppard.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

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

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 Westmount:

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 502 businesses in Westmount, employing roughly 6,852 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 & dining48
Shops & retail85
Personal & health services69
Recreation & fitness8
Professional & office113
Trades, auto & industrial42
Other29
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 20% of licences here). Landlord rental licences are excluded, and a listing isn't an endorsement.

Parks & green space

10 parks (12 hectares) and 6 playgrounds in Westmount — includes a greenway (trail corridor).

Parks

10

12 hectares total

Playgrounds

6

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • Pocket park8
  • Greenway1
  • 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 Westmount today. The nearest station is Corona (Capital & Metro Lines), about 2.5 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 8 bus routes (4 frequent).

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is 124 Street on the Valley Line West, about 450 m 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

2.5 km

to Corona

Bus routes

8

4 frequent

Future LRT

450 m

124 Street · under construction

Bus routes & notes

8 bus routes serve Westmount: 2, 3, 5, 7, 51, 111, 900X and 901. They run from 33 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

Frequent (≈ a bus every 15 min or better on a weekday): 2, 5, 7 and 901.

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Westmount, 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 +41% from 2012 to 2025.

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

$382,500 $539,500 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 1,701 building permits, about 1,274 net new homes, and 91 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 51% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 27% purpose-built rental, and 0% in mixed-use buildings (23% other, e.g. hotels).

Owned Purpose-built rental Other

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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