Rosscarrock

Overview

Rosscarrock is a community of the 1950s that mostly sells homes built this century, and holding both halves of that sentence at once is the key to reading its market.

The City of Calgary classes Rosscarrock as an established residential community of the 1950s, and the Rosscarrock Community Association’s own site gives 1954 as the year the community was established. Yet the homes that changed hands here over the twelve months to August 2026 carried a median build year of 2014. That last figure describes what sold, not what stands. A twelve-month sold sample cannot tell you what the streets look like today. What it does tell you is which product is trading, and here it is the newer end of the stock.

Forty-three residential sales closed over that window at a blended median of $845,000, and the lowest of them closed at $135,000. Detached houses were 14 of those 43, or 32.6%. The single largest product type was half duplexes, at 19. The remaining sales were apartments and categories with too few transactions to report, which is why the segment figures in this guide do not add to 43.

The boundaries are well settled. Bow Trail SW runs along 94% of the northern edge, 17 Avenue SW along 95% of the southern one and 45 Street SW along 81% of the west. The east side is 33 Street SW where the community is square, with Bow Trail wrapping the northeast corner. The community association’s own about page gives the same four streets on the same four sides, so two independent descriptions agree exactly.

Two things sit inside the boundary that a buyer will care about: Westbrook Station on the Blue Line, and Westbrook Mall.

David’s take

The vibe

There is a shopping mall inside Rosscarrock, and the better-documented anchor is still the train.

Westbrook Mall is inside the community. For tenants, store count, floor area or ownership, check the mall directly.

The station is the better-documented fact and it gets its own section below.

On open space, the City records five park sites inside the boundary. One carries a name, Rosscarrock Depot, and it is a Calgary Parks operations depot rather than a public amenity. The other four are subneighbourhood park sites with no published names. No recreation facility sits inside the community.

Community business runs through the Rosscarrock Community Association, whose hall is at 4411 10 Avenue SW. Two dates circulate about this community and they are not the same fact: the community itself was established in 1954, per the association’s own site, while the association was registered on 30 March 1951. If you see one quoted as the other, that is where the confusion comes from.

Housing stock

Two product types traded here in volume over the twelve months to August 2026, and the distance between their medians is small enough to be worth a paragraph of its own.

Half duplexes were the largest single group, at 19 sales and 44% of the market. Their typical price was $895,000, and the average across the same 19 was $847,732. The middle half of sales closed between $780,450 and $971,500, and the full range ran from $485,000 to $1,070,000. The half duplexes that sold carried a typical build year of 2015. No association fee showed up on any of those 19 sales, which is a fact about how those sales were listed and not a statement about how any of those properties is titled.

Detached houses were 14 sales, 32.6% of the market, at a typical $876,950 and an average of $878,057. Those two sitting almost on top of each other is worth noting on its own: the detached segment has no heavy tail pulling it in either direction. The middle half of sales closed between $768,500 and $1,007,500 and the full range ran from $644,000 to $1,099,900. The detached homes that sold were typically built in 2007 or 2008. No association fee showed up on any of the 14 sales, with the same caveat as above.

Set the two typical prices beside each other and they differ by about $18,000, roughly 2% on an $880,000 base. Across 19 sales and 14 sales that is a small enough gap that neither product type can be said to have sold for more than the other. What the numbers say is that they traded at effectively the same price. The middle halves back that up rather than sitting apart underneath two coincidentally close typical prices: $780,450 to $971,500 for half duplexes against $768,500 to $1,007,500 for detached, which is an overlap across almost the whole of both.

Five apartment sales also closed, ranging from $135,000 to $342,500. That is too few sales to give a reliable price, a typical time on market, a fee or a build year for the segment, so none of those figures is given here. The $135,000 at the bottom of that range was the single lowest sale in Rosscarrock over the whole twelve months.

A further 5 of the year’s 43 sales fall in categories with too few transactions to report, which is why the segments above do not add to 43.

Type	Typical price	Notes
Half duplex	$895,000	19 sales (44% of all sales in the community) between $485,000 and $1,070,000. Half sold within 34 days. Typical build year 2015.
Detached	$876,950	14 sales (33% of all sales in the community) between $644,000 and $1,099,900. Half sold within 29 days. Typical build year 2007 to 2008.
Apartment	Too few sales	Only 5 sales, not enough for a reliable price.

Recent sales

Across the 43 residential sales that closed here over the twelve months to August 2026, the middle one went for $845,000, with half of everything landing between $717,500 and $970,000. At the median, homes took 34 days to sell and fetched 98.2% of asking.

The stat block at the top of this page carries two means among its four figures, and one of them points the opposite way from what a reader will expect. The average sale price shown there, $787,509, is the mean across all 43 sales, and it sits about $57,500 below the median of $845,000. That is not a transcription error. A median counts every sale once, so a very cheap transaction moves it the same distance as a mildly cheap one. A mean carries the actual dollar value of every sale, so a small group of transactions well under the middle pulls it down. Rosscarrock’s year included apartment sales spanning $135,000 to $342,500 while the bulk of transactions clustered between $717,500 and $970,000, and that is the shape producing the gap.

The average days on market, shown as 51, is a mean too: 50.5 days rounded to a whole day, against a median of 34. That one runs the ordinary way, and the size of the gap is the point. Half of everything sold inside about five weeks, and a group of listings that sat far longer pulled the average up by roughly half again.

Twelve-month aggregates by segment

• Half duplex. 19 sales, 44% of the market. Typical price $895,000, average $847,732, range $485,000 to $1,070,000. Half sold within 34 days, average 51.
• Detached. 14 sales, 32.6% of the market. Typical price $876,950, average $878,057, range $644,000 to $1,099,900. Half sold within 29 days, average 40.
• Apartment. 5 sales, ranging from $135,000 to $342,500. Too few sales for a reliable price or typical time on market.

The three segments above cover 38 of the 43 sales. The other 5 fall in categories with too few transactions to report.

The negotiation figures are worth as much here as the price ones. The median sale-to-list ratio was 98.2% and the mean was 97.4%. When the mean sits below the median on that measure, the discounting is not spread evenly across the market: it is concentrated in the listings that took longest. Read together with a mean of 50.5 days against a median of 34, the picture is a market where most homes sold in a reasonable time near asking, and a meaningful minority sat and then gave something up.

An honest read on where one specific home sits inside these bands is a conversation rather than a page. On the selling side that starts with a home valuation. On the buying side, the buyer’s guide.

Getting around

Twenty-five active transit stops sit inside Rosscarrock’s boundary on the City of Calgary’s stop and route data. That count is the whole story of this section, because a large part of it converges on one site.

Westbrook Station is here, inside Rosscarrock’s boundary rather than just nearby.

What calls there makes it an interchange rather than a stop on a line. Route 306 MAX Teal Westbrook/Douglas Glen runs through it, recorded in the City’s data under its MAX category. So do routes 2 Mount Pleasant/Killarney 17 Av SW, 9 Dalhousie Station/Chinook Station, 26 Sarcee Trail Crosstown, 93 Coach Hill/Westbrook Station and 111 Old Banff Coach Road, every one of them active in the City’s records. Note what route 93 does with Westbrook’s name in its title: it calls at stops in more than one community. A route name points at a destination, not at a service area.

The line is the Blue Line, route 202. Calgary Transit’s own CTrain map legend gives the Blue Line as Saddletowne to 69 Street SW, and the City’s own data tags Westbrook as route 202 on the west leg, with the long name Blue Line.

Station order from Westbrook runs Shaganappi Point, Sunalta, Downtown West / Kerby, then 8, 7, 6, 4, 3 and 1 Street, then City Hall in the downtown direction. The other way it is 45 Street, Sirocco, then 69 Street, where the west leg ends.

That second list is where a Rosscarrock search goes wrong. A bus stop inside this community is named for 45 Street West LRT Station, so a search going by stop names instead of station locations will report two platforms here. 45 Street Station itself is in Westgate. Rosscarrock has one.

Walking time to Westbrook Station, ride time downtown, service frequency and drive time to anywhere are not covered here, and a distance measured across a map is not a walk. Take those four to a live schedule and a real weekday run.

Schools

The public elementary answer in Rosscarrock depends on which address you buy. Every tier above it is the same right across the community.

Most of Rosscarrock is designated to Glendale School for Kindergarten to Grade 6, at 2415 Kelwood Dr SW in Glendale. Addresses along the community’s northern edge are designated instead to Wildwood School (K-6), at 120 45 Street SW in neighbouring Wildwood. If a catchment is part of the decision, run the specific address through CBE’s Find a School tool before you write an offer, and run both if you are choosing between houses at opposite ends of the community.

Above that grade the answer settles. Junior high is Vincent Massey School (7-9) at 939 45 St SW in Westgate, and senior high is Central Memorial High School (10-12) at 5111 21 St SW in North Glenmore Park. CBE’s roster shows one programme each for the four public schools named above and no citywide choice stream running beside any of them.

St. Michael School carries the Catholic designation for every Rosscarrock address at both the elementary and the junior high tier, and it is inside Rosscarrock, at 4511 8 Avenue SW. Its published range runs Kindergarten to Grade 9, which is why one school covers two tiers. The Catholic senior high designation is St. Mary’s High School (10-12) at 111 18 Avenue SW in Mission. From the 2027-28 school year, the designated Catholic senior high becomes St. Pier Giorgio Frassati High School, the new CSSD school in west Calgary due to open in fall 2027.

Two cautions before you check any of this yourself.

The first is about the school inside the community that is not a catchment school. Westbrook Outreach is the only CBE facility inside the Rosscarrock boundary. It runs an Outreach programme for grades 10 to 12. It is not this community’s high school. Central Memorial is.

The second is about Killarney School. CBE’s roster gives that school a single programme, Montessori (K-6), and nothing else. That is a citywide programme families apply to, not an address-based designation. The same applies to Glamorgan School, which the roster gives as a Traditional Learning Centre programme, and to Westgate School, which the roster gives as Early French Immersion. All three will appear on a school locator search, alongside dozens of others including Western Canada High School. Every one of those is something you apply for rather than something your address entitles you to, and that distinction is the entire question.

Designations are set by address and reviewed annually, so confirm the current one with CBE’s Find a School tool and the CSSD school finder before you buy. For background on how Calgary’s school boundaries and programmes work, see the schools resource.

Frequently asked questions

How much do homes cost in Rosscarrock?

Over the twelve months to August 2026, Rosscarrock had 43 residential sales at a typical price of $845,000. Half of everything closed between $717,500 and $970,000, and the lowest sale of the year closed at $135,000. Half duplexes, 19 of the 43 sales, sold for a typical $895,000 (average $847,732), with the middle half of those sales closing between $780,450 and $971,500 and the full range from $485,000 to $1,070,000. Detached houses, 14 sales, sold for a typical $876,950 (average $878,057), with the middle half closing between $768,500 and $1,007,500 and the full range from $644,000 to $1,099,900. Five apartment sales also closed, ranging from $135,000 to $342,500, too few to give a reliable typical price, so read that range as a floor and a ceiling and nothing in between. A further 5 of the year’s 43 sales fall in categories with too few sales to report on, which is why those segments do not add to 43. For a read on a specific property rather than on a community, a home valuation is the place to start.

Is a half duplex cheaper than a detached house in Rosscarrock?

Over the twelve months to August 2026 it was not, and that changes what you are actually deciding. The 19 half duplex sales had a typical price of $895,000 and the 14 detached sales had a typical price of $876,950. That is a difference of about $18,000 on an $880,000 base, measured across 19 and 14 sales, close enough that neither product type can be said to have sold for more than the other. The fair statement is that they traded at effectively the same price. What did differ is age: the half duplexes that sold carried a typical build year of 2015 against 2007 or 2008 for the detached houses that sold, so the half duplex product changing hands was on average about seven and a half years newer. Both of those build-year figures describe the homes that sold, not the housing stock standing in the community. So the choice here is less about paying for a detached lot and more about weighing a newer attached home against an older detached one at roughly the same money. No association fee showed up on any of the 19 half duplex sales or on any of the 14 detached sales on MLS, which is a fact about how those sales were listed rather than a statement about how any particular property is titled. Ask what actually applies to the specific home you are considering.

Which price figure on this page should I actually use?

Use the typical price, and use the middle half beside it. Over the twelve months to August 2026 the typical sale price in Rosscarrock, the middle sale of the 43, was $845,000, and half of everything closed between $717,500 and $970,000. The stat block at the top of this page shows a different figure under the Avg sale label: $787,509, the average across all 43 sales, which sits about $57,500 under the typical price. Both are correct and the gap is not an error, but the direction is the reverse of what a reader might expect from an average, so it is worth explaining. The typical price counts every sale once, so a sale far below the middle moves it exactly as much as one just below it. An average carries the real dollar figure of every sale, so a small group of much cheaper sales drags it down. Rosscarrock’s year included apartment sales ranging from $135,000 to $342,500 while the bulk of the community’s sales clustered inside that $717,500 to $970,000 band, and that is the shape pulling the average under the typical price. Neither number prices a specific house. For that, work from comparables inside the same product type and condition band, or start with a home valuation.

What schools serve Rosscarrock?

The elementary answer varies by address. Nothing above it does. Most of Rosscarrock is designated to Glendale School (K-6) at 2415 Kelwood Dr SW in Glendale, and addresses along the community’s northern edge are designated instead to Wildwood School (K-6) at 120 45 Street SW in Wildwood. Check the specific address with CBE’s Find a School tool before you make an offer. Junior high and senior high are the same right across the community: Vincent Massey School (7-9) at 939 45 St SW in Westgate, then Central Memorial High School (10-12) at 5111 21 St SW in North Glenmore Park. On the Catholic side, St. Michael School (K-9) at 4511 8 Avenue SW is the designated school for every Rosscarrock address at both the elementary and the junior high tier, and it is inside Rosscarrock. St. Mary’s High School (10-12) at 111 18 Avenue SW in Mission carries the Catholic senior high designation. From the 2027-28 school year, the designated Catholic senior high becomes St. Pier Giorgio Frassati High School, the new CSSD school in west Calgary due to open in fall 2027. Two things to keep straight after that. Westbrook Outreach is the only CBE facility inside Rosscarrock, it runs a grades 10 to 12 Outreach programme, and it is not a catchment school for anyone. Killarney School is the other trap: CBE’s roster gives it a single programme, Montessori (K-6), which is a citywide programme families apply to rather than an address-based designation. Designations are set by address and reviewed annually, so confirm the current one with CBE’s Find a School tool and the CSSD school finder before you buy.

How long do homes take to sell in Rosscarrock?

About five weeks at the middle, and a good deal longer than that for a meaningful group of listings. Over the twelve months to August 2026 the middle sale in Rosscarrock took 34 days, and the average across all 43 sales was 50.5 days, shown as 51 in the stat block at the top of this page. When the average sits that far above the middle, some of what was listed sat for a long time. The two segments with enough sales behind them to break out separately behave slightly differently: half duplexes took a typical 34 days against an average of 51, and detached houses took a typical 29 days against an average of 40. The price story matches. Sellers took 98.2% of asking at the middle sale, so the middle transaction gave up under two percent. The average sale-to-list ratio was 97.4%, lower than the middle figure, which tells you the discounting is concentrated in the slower tail rather than spread evenly. For a buyer that means the listings sitting longest are the ones with room in them. For a seller it means the launch price has to be right the first time, because a listing that misses in this market does not correct quickly. It waits.

Does Rosscarrock have a CTrain station?

Yes, one: Westbrook Station, on the Blue Line, inside the community boundary. The line is route 202 in the City’s data, which the City’s stop and route cross-reference gives the long name Blue Line and which Calgary Transit’s CTrain map runs between Saddletowne and 69 Street SW. From Westbrook the downtown-direction order is Shaganappi Point, Sunalta, Downtown West / Kerby, then 8, 7, 6, 4, 3 and 1 Street, then City Hall. The other way it is 45 Street, Sirocco and 69 Street. Be careful with that second list, because a bus stop inside Rosscarrock is named for 45 Street West LRT Station and makes it look as though the community has two platforms. 45 Street Station itself is in Westgate. What Rosscarrock does have is 25 active transit stops inside its boundary and a genuine interchange at Westbrook: route 306 MAX Teal Westbrook/Douglas Glen, recorded in the City’s data under its MAX category, plus routes 2 Mount Pleasant/Killarney 17 Av SW, 9 Dalhousie Station/Chinook Station, 26 Sarcee Trail Crosstown, 93 Coach Hill/Westbrook Station and 111 Old Banff Coach Road. Check a live Calgary Transit schedule for walking time to the platform, ride time downtown and service frequency, none of which are covered here.

Sales data current as of 2026-08-04. Includes 43 residential sales in Rosscarrock over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.