Apartments for rent in Signal Hill, Calgary

Overview

Signal Hill is well-connected by Calgary Transit for its size — a commuter-friendly Calgary community where the bus network does a lot of the daily lifting. The Rentvoy composite lands at 57/100 — 137 Calgary Transit stops sit within a five-minute walk of its edges, 13.97 per km². The 2019 civic census counted roughly 13,395 residents — a medium-sized community by Calgary standards. The average residential assessment in Signal Hill is about $678,118 — 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: 57/100

Property values in Signal Hill sit in the mid-range band citywide (avg assessed value $678,118). Value data is shown as context, not mixed into the rating — it's an ownership figure, not rent.

Live rentals in Signal Hill

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Frequently asked questions

What is the average assessed property value in Signal Hill?

The City of Calgary's most recent residential property assessment shows an average assessed value of $678,118 for Signal Hill — 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 Signal Hill?

Signal Hill has 83 Calgary Transit stops inside the community polygon and 137 stops total within a 400m walkshed (5-minute walk of the boundary). Spread over the 9.803 km² that walkshed covers, that is 13.97 stops per km², for a transit sub-score of 82/100 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 Signal Hill?

Within 1 km of the community we count 29 parks, 9 schools, 5 recreation facilities, and 2 attractions — 45 walkable points of interest in total, or 2.41 per km² across the 18.69 km² that walkshed covers. That density gives an amenities sub-score of 54/100.

How walkable is Signal Hill?

Signal Hill has 628 road intersections across 5.136 km² — a density of 122.28 intersections per km². That drives a walkability sub-score of 56/100, 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 Signal Hill have?

About 9% of Signal Hill's land area is covered by parks (0.443 km² of park inside a 5.136 km² neighborhood, based on the City of Calgary parks dataset). That produces a green space sub-score of 34/100, benchmarked against 25% coverage as saturation — neighborhoods above that are effectively park-first environments with residential woven through.

Is Signal Hill a good place to rent?

Rentvoy's composite rating for Signal Hill is 57/100, 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 Signal Hill 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 Signal Hill 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.