Overview
Almost every street name in Falconridge begins with “Fal”. Falton, Falmere, Falshire, Falwood, Fallswater, Faldale and Falchurch are some of them, and the exceptions are 54 Street NE and 68 Street NE. Most of the homes on those streets went up between 1979 and 1983, a mix of detached houses, half-duplexes and six condominium townhouse complexes.
Four roads set the edges. McKnight Boulevard NE runs along the south, with Temple beyond it, and 68 Street NE runs along the east, facing Coral Springs. 64 Avenue NE is the short north edge, across from Taradale. Falconridge Boulevard NE curves down the west side, facing Castleridge until the last stretch, where the Westwinds industrial area takes over at the south-west end. Every address is NE.
Six school buildings stand inside Falconridge, from kindergarten to grade 12, and the City’s off-leash area in the south-east part of the community is fenced on all sides.
David’s take
The vibe
One association, two communities
Falconridge shares its community association with Castleridge, across Falconridge Boulevard: the Falconridge/Castleridge Community Association, a society registered in 1979.
Its building is on the Falconridge side, at 95 Falshire Drive NE, next door to Terry Fox School. The centre has two halls, Walsh Hall for 300 people and Langlois Hall for 150, plus two meeting rooms and a stage in Walsh Hall. By the association’s own account, volunteers keep up the outdoor rink beside it, and in 2022 the association opened a fitness park that is free to use. A preschool for three- and four-year-olds and a before- and after-school programme for kindergarten to grade 6 run out of the centre.
Membership costs from $10 a year and runs from October to September. It’s optional, sold online or at the centre’s office, and a single membership covers both communities. Falconridge has no residents association or homeowners association fee. Owners in the six condominium townhouse complexes and the one apartment condominium pay a monthly fee to their own condo corporation. The guide to homeowners association fees in Calgary walks through the two kinds of charge side by side.
Filling up in the early 1980s
Calgary annexed the land in 1961. The City counted no residents here in any year from 1968 to 1979, then 1,693 in 1980 and 8,497 by 1984. The population peaked at 11,088 in 2015.
Who lives here
The 2021 census counted 10,325 people in private households here. Households were larger than Calgary’s: 3.2 people on average, against 2.6 citywide, and 23% had five or more people, against 10%. Children up to 14 were 24% of residents (Calgary: 18%). Owners lived in 63% of households, against 69% across the city, and 77% of those owners still carried a mortgage, against 65% of Calgary owners. Typical household income for 2020 was $83,000, where Calgary’s was $98,000.
School fields and the fenced off-leash
The big open spaces in Falconridge are the City park sites around its schools. Between them they hold seven soccer fields and five ball diamonds, and playgrounds stand on five City park sites, with regional pathways crossing the community. The ground is flat, back lanes run behind a lot of the streets, and there is no pond, creek or lake inside.
The off-leash area, in the south-east part of the community north of McKnight Boulevard, is a City regional site of about 5 hectares, fully fenced, opened in 1988 and maintained by Calgary Parks.
Shops on the edges
Falconridge has no supermarket. As of November 2026, a Safeway and an independent grocer were open across Falconridge Boulevard in Westwinds. Inside, the largest strip, on Falsbridge Drive NE in the south-west corner, had a Shoppers Drug Mart, fast food, a liquor store, a bottle depot, a car wash and a gas bar. Two smaller ones, on Falconridge Drive NE and on Falshire Drive NE, had a gas station, convenience stores, a pharmacy and an animal hospital.
For ice time, the Don Hartman North East Sportsplex is across 68 Street in Coral Springs. Farther north on Falconridge Boulevard, in Martindale, one site holds the Saddletowne Library, the YMCA and the Genesis Centre, and the Village Square Leisure Centre is in Pineridge.
Housing stock
Falconridge has 1,856 detached houses, and alongside them 492 half-duplexes on titles of their own and 26 duplexes owned as whole buildings. The six condominium townhouse complexes hold 509 units, and one apartment condominium on Falsbridge Drive NE holds 36. Three rental townhouse sites and one low-rise rental apartment building round out the stock.
The 2021 census counted 49% of occupied homes as single-detached, against 55% across Calgary. Row houses were 18% (Calgary: 10%) and semi-detached homes 15%, against 6%.
A detached lot here is typically about 4,400 square feet, and the typical house on one dates from 1981. The half-duplexes went up mostly from 1979 to 1981 on lots of about 2,900 square feet per half, with the most on Falton Drive, Falchurch Road, Falwood Crescent and Falbury Crescent NE. The north end is a little newer: most of the detached houses on Falmere Way NE were built in 1987 and 1988, along with some on Falshire Close NE.
The townhouse complexes are on Falconridge Drive, Falconridge Gardens, Falconridge Crescent, Falshire Terrace, Falconer Terrace and Falbury Crescent NE, all built from 1979 to 1982. Buying into one of them means a condo fee, and the townhouses sold over the twelve months to August 2026 had a typical fee of $372 a month. Half-duplexes and detached houses here carry none.
The City has had more than 230 development permit applications for secondary suites in Falconridge since 2014. If a house you like has one, ask the seller for the permit, and check what the lot’s land-use district allows on the City’s map.
| Type | Median sale price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | $443,500 | 50 |
| Semi-detached | $390,000 | 5 |
| Row / townhouse | $272,000 | 13 |
| All home types | $423,500 | 69 |
Recent sales
Detached houses made up 58 of the 77 sales in the twelve months to August 2026. The typical one went for $467,500, from $360,000 at the low end to $635,000 at the high end, and half of them found a buyer within 27 days.
Eleven townhouses sold at a typical $272,000, between $155,000 and $342,000, and they took longer, with half selling within 56 days. Seven semi-detached homes and one apartment also sold.
All 77 sales, every type included, came to a typical $435,000, the middle half landing between $380,000 and $506,000, and the full spread running $155,000 to $635,000. Across all types, half were gone within 34 days, and sellers typically got 96.97% of what they asked.
Across McKnight Boulevard, Temple’s 77 detached houses had a typical price of $550,000, against $467,500 for Falconridge’s 58. Temple’s townhouses moved faster: half of its 22 sold within 26 days, at a typical $282,600 with a typical $453 condo fee, while half of Falconridge’s 11 sold within 56 days, at a typical $272,000 with a typical $372 fee. Castleridge, across Falconridge Boulevard, sold 36 detached houses at a typical $460,000, against $467,500 here, and half sold within 27 days in both.
A home valuation is where pricing a Falconridge house starts, set against the sales nearest to it. On the buying side, the buyer’s guide goes step by step through writing an offer, paying the deposit and removing conditions.
Getting around
Falconridge Drive NE crosses the community from Falconridge Boulevard to 68 Street, and Falton Drive, Falshire Drive and Falworth Road NE are the other main streets.
MAX Orange buses, running between Saddletowne and Brentwood with stations of their own, use Falconridge Boulevard NE on the west edge. At the Castleridge Boulevard and Falshire Drive stations, the northbound platform is on the Falconridge side of the road, and riders heading south cross to the Westwinds or Castleridge side. Routes 23 and 38 stop along the same edge.
Route 55 Falconridge, on Falconridge Drive and Falshire Drive, and Route 21 Castleridge run through the community, and Route 70 runs on 68 Street and 64 Avenue, all three every day. Falconridge has no CTrain station, and the nearest one, McKnight-Westwinds, is in Westwinds.
Foothills Medical Centre comes last of the four drives: 29 minutes from the middle of Falconridge without traffic, as of November 2026. The University of Calgary takes 28. The other two are shorter: 17 minutes to Calgary International Airport and 23 to the Municipal Building downtown.
| Downtown | 23 min |
|---|---|
| University of Calgary | 28 min |
| Foothills Hospital | 29 min |
| Airport (YYC) | 17 min |
Schools
Falconridge holds five CBE and CSSD school buildings, plus Arise Christian Academy on Falconridge Crescent NE, an independent school that neither board runs.
For public school, the community is split at kindergarten to grade 6, and both schools are inside. As CBE publishes it in November 2026, Grant MacEwan School (180 Falshire Dr NE) has the north end: the Falmere and Falshire streets, Faldale Close, and the north end of Falton Drive and 68 Street. Falconridge School (1331 Falconridge Dr NE) has the centre and the south. The line runs down Falshire Drive, Falton Drive, Falton Rise, Falton Mews, Faldale Close and 68 Street NE, so on any of those six, confirm the house with CBE.
The two halves meet again at Terry Fox School (139 Falshire Dr NE), which takes every Falconridge address for grades 7 to 9. Grades 10 to 12 are the one stage spent outside Falconridge, at Crescent Heights High School (1019 1 St NW, in Crescent Heights). In a notice dated December 11, 2025, CBE moved Falconridge’s high school from James Fowler High School to Crescent Heights from the 2026-27 school year, and let students then in grades 10 and 11 finish at James Fowler.
The Catholic path never leaves the community. As CSSD publishes it in November 2026, all of Falconridge is designated to St. John XXIII School (1420 Falconridge Drive NE) from kindergarten to grade 9, with Bishop McNally High School (5700 Falconridge Blvd NE) after that. Under the board’s 2027-2028 high school boundaries, Bishop McNally stays Falconridge’s designation.
Calgary’s attendance areas and choice programmes are laid out in the schools resource.
Falconridge School
Public, K-6
The centre and south of Falconridge belong to this school's kindergarten-to-grade-6 area, as CBE publishes it in November 2026: the Falconridge, Falmead, Falchurch, Falworth, Falsby, Falwood and Fallswater streets among them. The building is inside the community at 1331 Falconridge Dr NE. On Falshire Drive, Falton Drive, Falton Rise, Falton Mews, Faldale Close or 68 Street the house number decides it, so check the address in CBE's Find a School.
Grant MacEwan School
Public, K-6
North-end Falconridge children go here from kindergarten to grade 6, as CBE publishes it in November 2026: the Falmere and Falshire streets, Faldale Close and the north end of Falton Drive and 68 Street. It is inside the community at 180 Falshire Dr NE. Because the line runs down six streets, a family on one of them gets the final word from CBE's Find a School.
Terry Fox School
Public, 7-9
Whichever K-6 school a child starts at, all of Falconridge moves on to Terry Fox for grades 7 to 9, as CBE publishes it in November 2026. The school is at 139 Falshire Dr NE, inside Falconridge, beside the community hall. A single home's designation comes up in CBE's Find a School.
Crescent Heights High School
Public, 10-12
Crescent Heights is the public high school named for every Falconridge address, as CBE publishes it in November 2026, so teens travel to its building at 1019 1 St NW, in the community of Crescent Heights, for grades 10 to 12. Ahead of grade 10 registration, CBE's Find a School shows the designation for the home.
St. John XXIII School
Catholic, K-9
Kindergarten through grade 9 at St. John XXIII covers the whole of Falconridge in one piece, as CSSD publishes it in November 2026. Its building is inside Falconridge, at 1420 Falconridge Drive NE. CSSD's school finder settles it for a single address.
Bishop McNally High School
Catholic, 10-12
For Catholic grades 10 to 12, every Falconridge home goes to Bishop McNally, as CSSD publishes it in November 2026. Falconridge stays with it under the board's 2027-2028 high school boundaries. The building is inside the community, at 5700 Falconridge Blvd NE. Families registering for grade 10 can match the address against CSSD's school finder.
Frequently asked questions
What do homes sell for in Falconridge?
Over the twelve months to August 2026, 58 detached houses sold at a typical $467,500, between $360,000 and $635,000. Eleven townhouses sold at a typical $272,000, between $155,000 and $342,000, with a typical condo fee of $372 a month. Seven semi-detached homes and one apartment also sold. All 77 sales together came to a typical $435,000, and the middle half fell from $380,000 to $506,000. To price one house in particular, a home valuation will get you far closer than a community figure.
Is there an association fee in Falconridge?
Falconridge has no residents association or homeowners association fee. The Falconridge/Castleridge Community Association, which runs the hall at 95 Falshire Drive NE, sells an optional membership from $10 a year, and one membership covers both communities. Owners in the condominium townhouse complexes and the one apartment condominium pay a monthly condo fee to their corporation, which is a separate charge.
Which schools serve Falconridge?
On the public side, CBE draws a line through the community for the early grades. As CBE publishes it in November 2026, the north end (the Falmere and Falshire streets and Faldale Close) starts at Grant MacEwan School and the centre and south at Falconridge School, both in Falconridge. From grade 7 everyone is together, at Terry Fox School in Falconridge and then Crescent Heights High School. Homes on Falshire Drive, Falton Drive, Falton Rise, Falton Mews, Faldale Close and 68 Street confirm with CBE. No line divides the Catholic path. As CSSD publishes it in November 2026, St. John XXIII School takes kindergarten to grade 9 and Bishop McNally High School takes grades 10 to 12, and both are in Falconridge.
Is there a CTrain station in Falconridge?
No. The rapid service here is MAX Orange, buses that run between Saddletowne and Brentwood on Falconridge Boulevard NE along the west edge, and the northbound platforms of its Castleridge Boulevard and Falshire Drive stations are on the Falconridge side. Route 55 Falconridge and Route 21 Castleridge run through the community every day of the week. The nearest CTrain station is McKnight-Westwinds, in Westwinds.
Is there a grocery store in Falconridge?
Not a supermarket. As of November 2026, a Safeway and an independent grocer were open across Falconridge Boulevard NE in Westwinds. Inside Falconridge, the strip on Falsbridge Drive NE in the south-west corner had a Shoppers Drug Mart, fast food, a liquor store and a gas bar, and smaller strips on Falconridge Drive and Falshire Drive had convenience stores and a pharmacy.
Is there an off-leash area in Falconridge?
Yes. A fully fenced regional off-leash area of about 5 hectares sits in the south-east part of the community, north of McKnight Boulevard NE. It opened in 1988, and Calgary Parks looks after it.
How old are the homes in Falconridge?
Most went up in five years, from 1979 to 1983. The typical build year of the 77 homes sold in the twelve months to August 2026 was 1981. A later group of detached houses at the north end, mostly on Falmere Way, dates from the late 1980s, and a handful of detached houses are newer, built in 2015 or later.
Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 77 residential sales in Falconridge over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.
