Mount Royal

Mount Royal in Calgary, Alberta is a pedestrian-friendly, diverse community with easy access to shopping, dining, and education. Its quiet, low-traffic streets and abundance of green spaces make it a peaceful place to live, while still offering dynamic main streets with bars nearby. The housing stock, mostly single detached homes, offers a variety of unit sizes and has a historic charm with many properties dating back to the 1960s. With a good public transit system and ample parking, Mount Royal provides convenience and accessibility for its residents. This community is perfect for those looking for a peaceful, convenient, and diverse place to call home.

Mount Royal has a character that caters to a fairly diverse group of people. This community has many streets to check out. Even though there is a small selection of entertainment venues, the streets are very often busy with people, and finding one of the a few bars is very easy since they are generally situated in very convenient locations. Mount Royal is very quiet, as noise from the streets and other parts of the city is rarely an issue. It is very easy to get to green spaces since there are a few of them close by for residents to visit.

In Mount Royal, about 55% of dwellings are small apartment buildings, while large apartment buildings and single detached homes are also present in the housing stock. This part of the city is primarily composed of two bedroom and one bedroom homes. The split between homeowners and renters is about even. Roughly one third of properties in this area were built in the 1960s and 1970s, while the majority of the remaining buildings were constructed pre-1960 and in the 1980s.

Parents and their kids will welcome that no matter where their property is located in Mount Royal, schools and daycares are close by. Regarding food, it is very easy to access both a general and a specialty grocery store on foot from anywhere in this area. In addition, Mount Royal is a good place in which to eat out or go to a cafe.

Mount Royal is a reasonably good community for environmentally friendly transportation options. The public transit network in this part of the city is practical. The community is served by a few bus lines, and the closest bus stop is generally very close. Mount Royal will also attract active home buyers because it is very conducive to those who travel by foot; all daily errands can be run without the use of a car, and various businesses are reasonably close by. Mount Royal is a fairly convenient part of Calgary for bike riders. More specifically, the bicycling infrastructure is reasonably good.