Apartments for rent in Lake Bonavista, Calgary

Overview

Lake Bonavista sits at the dense, walkable heart of Calgary — the kind of community where groceries, transit, and a coffee shop are all within a five-minute walk. The Rentvoy composite lands at 62/100 — 119 Calgary Transit stops sit within a five-minute walk of its edges, 12.82 per km², and 57 parks, schools, and rec / attraction points fall inside a 1 km walkshed. The 2019 civic census counted roughly 10,293 residents — a medium-sized community by Calgary standards. The average residential assessment in Lake Bonavista is about $762,984 — mid-range for Calgary — which is useful context for rent expectations even though actual rent depends on unit type and building. Safety is held at a neutral 50 placeholder until CPS crime statistics become machine-readable; every other figure on this page is live open data.

Rentvoy rating: 62/100

Property values in Lake Bonavista sit in the mid-range band citywide (avg assessed value $762,984). Value data is shown as context, not mixed into the rating — it's an ownership figure, not rent.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the average assessed property value in Lake Bonavista?

The City of Calgary's most recent residential property assessment shows an average assessed value of $762,984 for Lake Bonavista — in the mid-range band citywide. Property assessment reflects ownership costs, not rent; actual monthly rent varies by unit type, building, and availability.

How is transit in Lake Bonavista?

Lake Bonavista has 73 Calgary Transit stops inside the community polygon and 119 stops total within a 400m walkshed (5-minute walk of the boundary). Spread over the 9.283 km² that walkshed covers, that is 12.82 stops per km², for a transit sub-score of 75/100 against a saturation of 17 stops/km². The score uses the density rather than the raw count so that a large community is not credited for stops nobody can walk to from any one address.

What is walkable from Lake Bonavista?

Within 1 km of the community we count 35 parks, 12 schools, 5 recreation facilities, and 5 attractions — 57 walkable points of interest in total, or 3.23 per km² across the 17.651 km² that walkshed covers. That density gives an amenities sub-score of 72/100.

How walkable is Lake Bonavista?

Lake Bonavista has 765 road intersections across 4.961 km² — a density of 154.21 intersections per km². That drives a walkability sub-score of 70/100, benchmarked against a saturation of 220 intersections/km² (dense routable grid). Intersection density is a standard proxy for walkable block size.

How much green space does Lake Bonavista have?

About 8% of Lake Bonavista's land area is covered by parks (0.404 km² of park inside a 4.961 km² neighborhood, based on the City of Calgary parks dataset). That produces a green space sub-score of 33/100, benchmarked against 25% coverage as saturation — neighborhoods above that are effectively park-first environments with residential woven through.

Is Lake Bonavista a good place to rent?

Rentvoy's composite rating for Lake Bonavista is 62/100, blending walkshed transit (25%), walkable amenities (25%), walkability from intersection density (20%), green space coverage (20%), and safety (10%, neutral placeholder pending CPS crime data). Individual priorities vary — use the rating breakdown to see which factors align with your needs.

Data transparency

Rentvoy's Lake Bonavista rating is deterministic — every figure on this page comes from the City of Calgary Open Data Portal and is recomputed when the underlying data refreshes. No subjective weighting is applied on top of the published formula.

Why densities, not counts: transit and amenity sub-scores divide by the area their walkshed actually covers. Counting alone would rank a community highly for being large — a 400 m walkshed around a 5 km² polygon sweeps up three times the bus stops of one around a 1.6 km² polygon, for exactly the same walk from any front door. The raw counts are still printed above, because they are the honest answer to "how many are there"; the score answers "how close together".

What's not in the score yet: The Calgary Police Service publishes community crime statistics, but the current-year table on the open data portal is access-restricted rather than public, so our safety sub-score holds a neutral 50 placeholder rather than depend on a feed we cannot re-read on every refresh. This is called out on every community page so readers can factor it in. When CPS publishes an open JSON or CSV feed we can re-read on every refresh, we'll replace the placeholder and regenerate every page in a single ingest pass.

What property value means here: The average assessment figure is an ownership-cost proxy, not rent. It's included as context because expensive-to-own neighborhoods typically rent higher, but actual rent in Lake Bonavista varies widely by building, unit size, and availability. Live listings will always reflect the real number.

Data sources

• Community district boundaries
• Calgary Transit stops
• Parks sites
• Schools
• Recreation facilities
• Community services
• Street centreline (intersections derived)
• Property assessments
• Census by community (2019)

Data snapshot: 2026-08-30. Rentvoy combines City of Calgary open data with live listings on our platform.