Pump Hill

Overview

Pump Hill is a small luxury enclave in SW Calgary, tucked between Palliser to the west and Bayview to the north, on the south side of the Glenmore Reservoir. Boundaries broadly run along 14 Street SW to the east, 90 Avenue SW to the north, 19 Street SW to the west, and Southland Drive SW to the south. The postal code is T2V. Over the twelve months to August 2026 the community recorded 19 residential sales, priced from $677,500 to $2,600,000.

The community built out in two clearly readable waves. The original 1975-1978 wave produced the Pump Hill Road, Pump Hill Crescent, Pump Hill Place, Pump Hill View, and Pump Hill Gardens addresses on the central interior streets, all large 2-storey and bungalow detached homes in the 2,100 to 2,800 sq ft range on 6,000 to 9,000 sq ft lots. A larger and more architecturally varied 1986-1993 wave filled in along Pumpridge Place, Pumpmeadow Place, Pumpvalley Court, Pump Valley Court, and Patton Road, Court, and Place, with estate-scale 2-storey and bungalow product typically in the 3,000 to 4,800 sq ft range on 10,000 to 19,000 sq ft pie-shaped and cul-de-sac lots, several backing onto municipal greenspace.

The defining geographic features are the Glenmore Reservoir to the immediate north (with South Glenmore Park forming the buffer along 90 Avenue SW) and the interior greenspace where multiple Pumpridge, Pumpmeadow, and Patton addresses back directly onto municipal park land.

Detached houses were 17 of the 19 sales, 89.5% of the market, at a median of $1,577,500. The other two were semi-detached homes, so the detached figures account for 17 of the 19 sales. Across all 19 sales, the blended median was $1,500,000.

David’s take

The vibe

Pump Hill has the daily rhythm of an established south-Glenmore estate community whose commercial life happens outside the community boundary. There is no commercial strip inside Pump Hill; for groceries and daily errands, residents drive to Glenmore Landing at 90 Avenue SW and 14 Street (Co-op, liquor store, restaurants, professional services), Southland Crossing along Southland Drive, the Chinook Centre regional mall on Macleod Trail eight to ten minutes east, or the Westhills cluster to the west. The interior streets are quiet cul-de-sacs and crescents with no through-traffic.

The Palliser Bayview Pumphill (PBP) Community Association serves Pump Hill collectively with Palliser and Bayview, with seasonal programming, a community garden, and an annual stampede breakfast. The PBP Association is one of the longer-running south Calgary community associations, with deep ties to long-tenured residents. The demographic skews to two recognisable groups: original owners and second-generation owners (families who bought into the 1975-1978 or 1986-1993 wave and either stayed or saw their adult children buy back when an estate listing came up), and a steady inflow of established families moving up from inner-SW communities and trading laneway proximity for greenspace adjacency and lot size.

To the north, South Glenmore Park and the Glenmore Reservoir pathway system sit a five-to-ten minute walk away via 90 Avenue SW and the upper Pump Hill cul-de-sacs, with the reservoir-loop pathway connecting east to Heritage Park and west to North Glenmore Park, the Weaselhead Natural Area, and Lakeview on the north shore.

Recent sales

Pump Hill’s 19 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026 spent a median of 35 days on the market. Detached houses on their own, 17 of those sales, took a median of 46 days.

The median sale-to-list ratio was 96.77%.

The average sale price shown at the top of this page, $1,446,079, sits below the typical (median) price of $1,500,000.

The middle half of the market traded between $1,165,000 and $1,670,000. Individual sales ran from $677,500 to $2,600,000.

If you want a current valuation on a Pump Hill home, the home valuation request form pulls in your address and gets you a comparable-anchored estimate from me directly. Buyers can start with the buyer’s guide.

Schools

Pump Hill sits inside the same Palliser Bayview Pumphill (PBP) school catchment as its neighbours. Nellie McClung School at 2315 Palliser Drive SW is the CBE K-6 designated elementary, located inside the Palliser community boundary roughly 3 to 5 minutes by car from most Pump Hill addresses. Nellie McClung serves Pump Hill along with Palliser, Bayview, and Oakridge, and is the same designated elementary referenced in Palliser listings, which is one of the strongest signals of the shared catchment.

The CBE 7-9 junior high designation is John Ware School at 10020 19 Street SW, inside Pump Hill on its western edge. The senior high designation is Henry Wise Wood High School at 910 75 Avenue SW, which serves Pump Hill along with Palliser, Oakridge, and Bayview. The school resource page lists the broader SW Calgary school inventory if you want to compare options.

For Catholic families, St. Cyril School at 2990 Cedarbrae Drive SW in Cedarbrae is the CSSD designated school for both the elementary and junior high years, with Our Lady of the Rockies High School at 111 Haddon Road SW in Haysboro (formerly Bishop Grandin) handling Catholic senior high. CBE and CSSD boundaries can be updated between planning cycles; verify the current designation for your specific address with the appropriate Find a School tool before relying on it for purchasing decisions.

Getting around

Pump Hill has a commute story shaped by its position south of the Glenmore Reservoir between 14 Street SW and the Palliser community line, with two arterials doing most of the work. 14 Street SW runs along the eastern flank of the community and connects north via the 50 Avenue SW corridor to the Glenmore Trail interchange and the inner SW, and south to the Anderson Road interchange and the Macleod Trail corridor. Heritage Drive provides the most direct route to the Heritage LRT station and the Macleod Trail corridor. Anderson Road and Stoney Trail to the south provide ring-road access and east-west connectivity across the south side of the city.

By car, downtown is approximately 17 minutes outside peak hours via 14 Street SW north and the Bow Trail or Crowchild corridor. Foothills Medical Centre is approximately 15 minutes via the same route, and the University of Calgary runs about 20 minutes north on Crowchild. Calgary International Airport is the longest trip at approximately 37 minutes via Stoney Trail and Deerfoot Trail. Mount Royal University is approximately 10 minutes north via Heritage Drive and 14 Street, and Rockyview General Hospital is roughly 5 minutes north via 14 Street SW.

For commuters using transit, Pump Hill does not have direct LRT walk-up access. The Heritage LRT station on the Red Line is the closest rapid transit, approximately 8 to 10 minutes east by car or bus via Heritage Drive and 14 Street SW. Southland LRT to the east is a similar distance and offers an alternate Red Line entry point. From either station, downtown is a further 18 to 22 minutes by train, putting the door-to-door transit commute at roughly 30 to 40 minutes. Calgary Transit bus routes connect to both Heritage and Southland LRT stations plus crosstown service to the Westhills and Chinook commercial nodes. The community is car-oriented in practice, but the Red Line proximity is meaningfully better than from west-side SW communities like Discovery Ridge where the closest station is the 69 Street Blue Line.

Property mix

Pump Hill’s sales were nearly all detached houses. Over the twelve months to August 2026, detached houses were 17 of the 19 residential sales, 89.5% of the market. Over that same period, detached houses made up 58.9% of sales in Oakridge and 22.2% in Palliser. Most of the detached stock falls into two build cohorts.

The original 1975-1978 cohort is on Pump Hill Road, Pump Hill Crescent, Pump Hill Place, Pump Hill View, and Pump Hill Gardens. These are 2,100 to 2,800 sq ft 2-storey, 2-storey split, and bungalow homes on 6,000 to 9,000 sq ft lots, generally 1976-1978 vintage.

The 1986-1993 cul-de-sac estate cohort is on Pumpridge Place, Pumpmeadow Place, Pumpvalley Court, Pump Valley Court, and Patton Road/Court/Place. These are 3,000 to 4,800 sq ft 2-storey and bungalow estates on 10,000 to 19,000 sq ft pie-shaped and cul-de-sac lots, often backing onto municipal greenspace, often with triple or quad attached garages and walk-out basements.

Detached prices over those twelve months ran from $738,000 to $2,600,000 across the 17 sales, with a median of $1,577,500. The median build year among them was 1976, and the median time to sell was 46 days. The remaining two sales were semi-detached, so every detached figure in this section describes 17 of the 19 sales.

Type	Median sale price	Sales
Detached	$1,538,750	16
All home types	$1,500,000	17

Frequently asked questions

What schools serve Pump Hill in Calgary?

The CBE designated K-6 elementary for Pump Hill is Nellie McClung School at 2315 Palliser Drive SW, which sits inside the Palliser community boundary roughly 3 to 5 minutes by car from most Pump Hill addresses and also serves Palliser, Bayview, and Oakridge. The CBE 7-9 designated junior high is John Ware School at 10020 19 Street SW. The CBE 10-12 designated senior high is Henry Wise Wood High School at 910 75 Avenue SW. For Catholic families, St. Cyril at 2990 Cedarbrae Drive SW in Cedarbrae is the designated school for both the elementary and junior high years, and Our Lady of the Rockies (formerly Bishop Grandin) at 111 Haddon Road SW handles senior high. CBE and CSSD boundaries can change; verify the current designation for your specific address before purchasing.

Is Pump Hill close to Glenmore Reservoir?

Yes, and the reservoir access is one of the defining structural advantages of the community. To the north, South Glenmore Park and the Glenmore Reservoir pathway system sit a five-to-ten minute walk away via 90 Avenue SW and the upper Pump Hill cul-de-sacs, with the reservoir-loop pathway connecting east to Heritage Park and west to North Glenmore Park and the Weaselhead Natural Area. For households whose weekend life is organised around reservoir running or off-leash dog walking, the park access is measured in minutes rather than the cross-city drive that most SW communities require.

How does Pump Hill compare to Palliser, Oakridge, or Bayview?

All four communities share the Palliser-Bayview-Pumphill school catchment (Nellie McClung K-6, John Ware 7-9, Henry Wise Wood 10-12) plus South Glenmore Park pathway access. The differences are price, lot size, and housing stock vintage. Over the same twelve months to August 2026, detached houses sold at a median of $765,000 in Palliser, $860,000 in Oakridge and $1,577,500 in Pump Hill. Pump Hill also has materially larger lots (10,000 to 19,000 sq ft pie-shaped cul-de-sac lots in the 1986-1993 estate cluster versus 50 to 60 foot standard interior lots in Palliser), a longer build wave that ran into the early 1990s rather than ending in 1979, and several streets that back directly onto municipal greenspace. Oakridge sits west of Palliser, and Bayview is the smaller community immediately north across 90 Avenue SW. On price, Palliser and Oakridge both sold detached houses for less than Pump Hill did, and Pump Hill is the one with the greenspace adjacency and the estate lots.

How long is the commute from Pump Hill to downtown Calgary?

By car, approximately 17 minutes outside peak hours via 14 Street SW north and the Bow Trail or Crowchild corridor. Morning rush hour can extend that to 28 to 38 minutes. Pump Hill does not have direct LRT walk-up access; the Heritage LRT station on the Red Line is the closest rapid transit, approximately 8 to 10 minutes east by car or bus via Heritage Drive. From the Heritage platform, downtown is a further 18 to 22 minutes by train, putting a door-to-door transit commute at roughly 30 to 40 minutes. Most Pump Hill residents commute by car, with 14 Street SW handling the north-south traffic and Stoney Trail to the south providing the ring road alternative. Rockyview General Hospital is roughly 5 minutes north via 14 Street SW.

What's the housing stock like in Pump Hill, bungalows or two-storey homes?

Pump Hill is split between two distinct build waves with both 2-storey and bungalow product in each. The original 1975-1978 cluster on Pump Hill Road, Pump Hill Crescent, Pump Hill Place, Pump Hill View, and Pump Hill Gardens is roughly half 2-storey and 2-storey split, half bungalow, generally 2,100 to 2,800 sq ft above grade on 6,000 to 9,000 sq ft lots. The 1986-1993 cul-de-sac estate cluster on Pumpridge, Pumpmeadow, Pumpvalley, Pump Valley, and Patton is roughly two-thirds 2-storey and one-third oversized bungalow, generally 3,000 to 4,800 sq ft above grade on 10,000 to 19,000 sq ft pie-shaped and cul-de-sac lots. There is almost no construction in Pump Hill after 1993, so buyers are choosing between original-cluster product (renovated or not) and 1986-1993 estate product.

How close is Pump Hill to the Heritage LRT or Anderson LRT?

The Heritage LRT station on the Red Line is the closest rapid transit, approximately 8 to 10 minutes east of Pump Hill by car or bus via Heritage Drive and 14 Street SW. Anderson LRT and Southland LRT to the east are both within 10 minutes by car and offer alternate Red Line entry points. Calgary Transit bus routes serve the community with connections to all three Red Line stations, plus crosstown service to the Westhills and Chinook commercial nodes. Walk-up access to the LRT itself is not available from Pump Hill addresses, but the Red Line proximity is meaningfully better than from west-side SW communities where the closest station is the 69 Street Blue Line. For buyers who use transit occasionally rather than daily, the bus-and-train combination through Heritage works well.

What's the price range for homes in Pump Hill?

Pump Hill’s 19 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026 had a blended median of $1,500,000, with the middle half of them between $1,165,000 and $1,670,000 and a full range of $677,500 to $2,600,000. The 17 detached houses sold at a median of $1,577,500, from $738,000 at the bottom to $2,600,000 at the top, with a median build year of 1976. For a current valuation grounded in comparable-anchored data, the home valuation request form pulls in your address and produces an estimate from me directly.

Is Pump Hill a good fit for families with kids?

Yes, with the caveat that the price is meaningfully higher than in neighbouring Palliser. Over the same twelve months to August 2026, detached houses sold at a median of $1,577,500 in Pump Hill and $765,000 in Palliser. The reasons families buy into Pump Hill specifically rather than Palliser or Bayview are usually three: the lot size and greenspace adjacency (10,000 to 19,000 sq ft pie-shaped cul-de-sac lots, several backing onto municipal greenspace, room for sport courts, hot tubs, and gardens), the build era of the housing stock (the 1986-1993 estate cluster offers proportions and finishes that the 1960s-70s Palliser stock does not), and the small-community quiet (19 sales over those twelve months against Palliser’s 45, with cul-de-sac after cul-de-sac of no through-traffic). The school designations are identical to Palliser and Bayview, the South Glenmore Park access is identical, the commute is identical. What changes is what the family takes home at the end of the day.

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Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 19 residential sales in Pump Hill over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.