Marlborough Park

Overview

Marlborough Park is a 1970s NE Calgary community built around Big Marlborough Park, a City park of about 26 hectares. 16 Avenue NE, the Trans-Canada Highway here, runs along the north with Pineridge on its far side. Across 68 Street NE, on the east, is Abbeydale. The south side is Memorial Drive E, with Penbrooke Meadows beyond it, and the west side is 52 Street NE, where Marlborough begins across the road. The whole community is in Ward 10.

Three of the four school buildings stand in that park, and so do the community hall and the tennis courts. The houses ring it on streets named Madigan, Madeira, Maddock, Maidstone, Maitland, Malvern and Manora.

Detached houses were 56 of the 93 homes sold in the twelve months to August 2026 (60.2%), at a typical $565,000. The 30 townhouses sold at a typical $287,500, and five apartments and two semi-detached homes made up the rest. The typical price across all 93 was $495,000.

A Save-On-Foods is inside, at the TransCanada Centre in the north-west corner, and transit here means buses. Marlborough Mall is in Marlborough, across 52 Street NE, and Marlborough Station is on 36 Street NE, farther west.

David’s take

The vibe

Big Marlborough Park

Big Marlborough Park covers about 26 hectares at the centre of the community, and the City classes it as a regional park. Dr. Gladys McKelvie Egbert School, Roland Michener School and St. Martha School are all in it, and the Marlborough Park Community Centre sits beside them at 6021 Madigan Drive NE. The City lists six tennis courts, seven ball diamonds, four soccer fields, a park rink, a toboggan hill and a nine-hole disc golf course in the park, along with playgrounds.

The City’s own description is that the park was created in the 1970s and “has remained largely untouched” since. No fee on a Marlborough Park home pays for it: Marlborough Park has no residents association or homeowners association fee, and no City special tax lands on its property tax bills.

The hall belongs to the Marlborough Park Community Association, which is separate from Marlborough’s association across 52 Street. Joining is optional. In the association’s words, “You don’t need a membership to come and connect with your neighbours”, though its AGM and pickleball club ask for one. It runs a preschool, seniors’ groups, drop-in pickleball in its gym and a Good Food Box, and the association can tell you the current membership price.

Built through the 1970s

Almost all of this land became part of Calgary in 1961, but building waited about ten years. The community association and the Federation of Calgary Communities both give 1972 as its start, and the City’s count in 1973 found 181 residents. By 1975 there were 3,714, and the population peaked at 9,735 in 1982. The 2021 census counted 8,290 people.

The building began in the south-west, on Maidstone Drive and Maddock Drive, then moved through the Manora and Madeira streets and along Madigan Drive. The Malvern streets in the south-east followed, and the Maitland streets and 8 Avenue in the north-east came last, around 1977. The 2021 census placed 84% of occupied homes here in its 1961 to 1980 building period, against 26% across Calgary.

Households, owners and income

The 2,870 households in the 2021 census averaged 2.9 people each (Calgary: 2.6). Owners held 75% of them (Calgary: 69%), and a mortgage was still being paid on 61% of owned homes, where the citywide share was 65%. Residents 65 and older were 15% of the community, against 13% in Calgary.

Half of households had an income above $81,000 in 2020, and Calgary’s midpoint was $98,000. People here move less often than the city does: 32% of residents had changed address over the five years to 2021, against 42% citywide.

Shopping along 52 Street and Memorial Drive

The shops sit on the edges. The TransCanada Centre, at 1440 52 St NE by 16 Avenue, had a Save-On-Foods, a Bulk Barn, a Rexall, a Dollarama and a registry office as of October 2026, with fast food and a few restaurants around them. Farther south on 52 Street, the plaza at 200 52 St NE had a Shoppers Drug Mart. Two strips on Memorial Drive, one near Madigan Drive and one at 68 Street, had a pharmacy, convenience stores, liquor stores and small restaurants at the same date.

Marlborough Mall is in Marlborough, the Calgary Co-op on 68 Street NE is in Monterey Park, and Village Square, with its leisure centre and a library, is north across 16 Avenue in Pineridge. Marlborough Park has no library, pool, leisure centre or fire station of its own.

The highway edge and the back lanes

Dogs can run off leash on the City’s buffer land beside 16 Avenue NE, all the way from 52 Street to 68 Street. Chain-link fencing covers part of it, beside the highway and 68 Street, so it is not closed in on every side. Back lanes run behind much of the community, and the ground is close to flat apart from the toboggan hill in the park.

Housing stock

By the City’s 2026 assessments, Marlborough Park has 2,053 detached houses, 630 condominium townhouse units, 68 half-duplexes, each on a title of its own, and 58 apartment units in one condominium building. In the 2021 census, single-detached houses were 57% of occupied homes (Calgary: 55%) and row houses 22%, where the Calgary share was 10%.

The detached houses went up between 1972 and 1979, apart from a handful of later builds, on a typical lot of about 5,100 square feet. The half-duplexes date from 1972 to 1975 and are all on Maddock Drive NE and 4 Avenue NE, in the south-west.

The townhouses are in five condominium plans built between 1976 and 1978, on 4 Avenue NE, Madigan Drive NE, Madeira Drive NE and Manora Place NE. Owners of the townhouses sold in the twelve months to August 2026 typically paid a condo fee of $423 a month. The apartment building, on Manora Place NE, is from 1999.

Buying a townhouse or an apartment means budgeting for that fee every month and reading the condominium’s documents for what it covers and how well funded its reserve is. Houses and the separately titled half-duplexes pay no condo fee. Whatever you buy, your lawyer will read the title, and the post on Calgary homeowners association fees lists what to ask along the way.

Some owners have added suites with City permits, including backyard suites above new garages. If you plan a suite, a garage or a rebuild, look the lot up on the City’s land use map and talk to the City before you count on it.

Type	Median sale price	Sales
Detached	$542,500	48
Row / townhouse	$285,000	31
Apartment	$197,500	4
All home types	$472,500	84

Recent sales

Over the twelve months to August 2026, the 56 detached houses sold had a typical price of $565,000, from $415,000 to $665,000. Half of them sold within 20 days, and a typical one dated from 1975.

Townhouses were 30 of the 93 sales. They sold at a typical $287,500, from $208,400 to $377,500, and half of them were sold within 26 days. The typical townhouse sold was a 1977 build, with a condo fee of $423 a month. Five apartments and two semi-detached homes also sold.

Put together, the 93 sales had a typical price of $495,000, with the middle half between $300,000 and $568,000. Prices ran from $170,000 to $665,000. The $170,000 at the bottom came from a type of home that sold too rarely here to carry a price of its own, and it tells you nothing useful about a house. Detached houses alone ran from $415,000 to $665,000. Across every type, half the homes went within 24 days, and sellers typically got 97.82% of what they asked.

Averaged, the 93 sales come to $445,409, which is $49,591 under the typical price. Of the 93 sales, 30 were townhouses at a typical $287,500, against $565,000 for the detached houses, and an average carries every one of those lower prices in full. Measure a house against other houses here, and a townhouse against townhouses.

For an owner here, a home valuation prices your own house against the sales closest to it. If you’re buying, the buyer’s guide covers how an offer and its conditions work in Calgary.

Getting around

Madigan Drive NE is the main road inside, a loop that leaves 52 Street NE in the north-west and comes out on Memorial Drive in the south. 4 Avenue NE and Maddock Drive NE are the other through streets. 16 Avenue NE has an interchange at 52 Street, in the north-west corner.

Transit is by bus. Route 42 Marlborough runs through the community on Madigan Drive and Memorial Drive, Route 49 Forest Heights on Madigan Drive, and Route 127 Maryvale/Franklin Industrial on 4 Avenue and Madigan Drive, all three every day. Route 23 stops on 52 Street NE, Route 67 on Memorial Drive and Route 68 on 68 Street NE. Neither the CTrain nor MAX stops inside the community. Routes 67 and 127 run to Marlborough Station on the Blue Line, on 36 Street NE.

For a downtown job, the drive to the Municipal Building takes 17 minutes from the middle of Marlborough Park with the roads clear. Calgary International Airport takes 19, Foothills Medical Centre 24 and the University of Calgary 25.

Schools

Four of the six designated schools are inside Marlborough Park. On the public side, the elementary school depends on which side of 8 Avenue NE the house is on.

As CBE publishes it in October 2026, the community has two public elementary schools, each kindergarten to grade 6. Cappy Smart School, 5808 Madigan Dr NE, takes the addresses north of 8 Avenue NE. Roland Michener School, 5958 4 Ave NE, takes the addresses south of it. West of Madigan Drive the line keeps going to 52 Street behind the houses, between Madeira Drive (Cappy Smart) and Maidstone Drive (Roland Michener). The Madeira, Maitland and Manora streets are Cappy Smart’s, and the Maidstone, Maddock and Malvern streets are Roland Michener’s.

Three streets are divided at 8 Avenue: 8 Avenue NE itself, Madigan Drive NE and 68 Street NE. If the house is on one of them, or on the facing sides of Maidstone Drive and Madeira Drive, check the address with CBE before you count on a school.

After grade 6 the split ends. Every address goes to Dr. Gladys McKelvie Egbert School, 6033 Madigan Dr NE in the park, for grades 7 to 9, and for grades 10 to 12 to Forest Lawn High School, at 1304 44 St SE in the community of Forest Lawn.

The Catholic side has no line. As CSSD publishes it in October 2026, St. Martha School, on 4 Avenue NE at number 6020, takes all of Marlborough Park from kindergarten to grade 9. High school is Father Lacombe, in Albert Park/Radisson Heights at 3615 Radcliffe Drive SE. For 2026-27, CSSD’s enrolment information places any new grade 7, 8 or 9 student from the St. Martha attendance area at Holy Cross School instead, at 3719 26 Avenue SE in Dover. CSSD’s 2027-2028 high school boundaries keep Marlborough Park with Father Lacombe.

Boards revisit designations, so give the full street address to CBE’s Find a School and to CSSD’s school finder, and each answers for that house. Calgary’s mix of attendance areas, choice programmes and alternatives has its own walk-through in the schools resource.

Frequently asked questions

What do homes sell for in Marlborough Park?

It depends on the type, because two types made up nearly all of the market. In the twelve months to August 2026, 56 detached houses changed hands at a typical $565,000, from $415,000 to $665,000, and half of them sold within 20 days. The 30 townhouses sold at a typical $287,500, from $208,400 to $377,500, with a typical condo fee of $423 a month. Five apartments and two semi-detached homes also sold. Across all 93 sales the typical price was $495,000, and the middle half sold between $300,000 and $568,000. A home valuation puts a price on one house: yours.

Is there a homeowners association fee in Marlborough Park?

No. Marlborough Park has no residents association or homeowners association fee, and the City bills no special tax on homes here. Big Marlborough Park, the regional park in the middle of the community, is run by the City and no fee on a home pays for it. The monthly charge you’ll meet is the condo fee on a townhouse or apartment, paid to its condominium corporation, typically $423 a month on townhouses sold during the twelve months to August 2026. A detached house has no condo fee. Membership in the Marlborough Park Community Association is optional.

Is Marlborough Park the same as Marlborough?

No. Marlborough Park is east of 52 Street NE and Marlborough is west of it. Their community associations are different bodies with different halls. Marlborough Park’s hall is at 6021 Madigan Drive NE, in the park, and its association describes the pair as “two different neighbourhoods”. Marlborough Mall is in Marlborough, and Marlborough Station is on 36 Street NE, farther west. A business with Marlborough in its name can be in either.

Where do Marlborough Park children go to school?

Most of the schooling happens inside Marlborough Park. As CBE publishes it in October 2026, the public elementary depends on the side of 8 Avenue NE: Cappy Smart School to the north and Roland Michener School to the south, each kindergarten to grade 6. West of Madigan Drive the line runs behind the houses between Madeira Drive and Maidstone Drive. Everyone then goes to Dr. Gladys McKelvie Egbert School for grades 7 to 9, then Forest Lawn High School, in Forest Lawn, through grade 12. As CSSD publishes it in October 2026, St. Martha School in the community covers kindergarten to grade 9, with Father Lacombe High School, over in Albert Park/Radisson Heights, for grades 10 to 12. For 2026-27, CSSD places newly registering junior high students from the St. Martha area at Holy Cross School in Dover. On 8 Avenue NE, Madigan Drive NE or 68 Street NE, confirm the address with CBE.

What is the City planning for Big Marlborough Park?

The City is working on a master plan for the park, and its engagement page shows a preferred concept. The concept would cut the ball diamonds from seven to two, grow the disc golf course from 9 holes to 12, add a field for cricket and soccer, a basketball court, a skateboard park and pump track, and change some pathways and parking. None of it is built. The City says it anticipates “the construction plan to be completed in phases over the course of a couple of years”. If a house backs onto the park, read the concept for the part behind it before you buy.

What transit serves Marlborough Park?

Buses. No CTrain or MAX line stops inside Marlborough Park. Route 42 Marlborough and Route 49 Forest Heights run through it on Madigan Drive, and Route 127 Maryvale/Franklin Industrial covers 4 Avenue and Madigan Drive, every day of the week. Route 23 stops on 52 Street NE, Route 67 on Memorial Drive and Route 68 on 68 Street NE. Routes 67 and 127 run to Marlborough Station on the Blue Line.

How old are the homes in Marlborough Park?

Close to all of them are from the 1970s. The first houses went up in 1972, in the south-west on Maidstone Drive and Maddock Drive, and building worked north and east until the Maitland streets and 8 Avenue filled in around 1977. The townhouse complexes date from 1976 to 1978. The one apartment building came much later, in 1999. Among the sales over the twelve months to August 2026, a typical detached sale was a 1975 house and a typical townhouse sale a 1977 one.

Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 93 residential sales in Marlborough Park over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.