Where Calgary Industrial Property Data Actually Comes From

The six City of Calgary sources

• Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel) — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →
• Historical Property Assessments (Parcel) — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →
• Land Use Designation Codes — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →
• Building Permits — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →
• Development Permits — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →
• Truck Routes — The City of Calgary. Licensed under Open Government Licence – City of Calgary · version 2.1. Source →

How they are joined

• Assessment history to property: exact assessment roll number, at assessment-account grain. No fuzzy matching.
• Permits and development applications to property: exact normalised civic address. No proximity fallback.
• Truck routes to property: calculated point-to-nearest-published-line distance.
• Land use to property: the designation code published on the assessment record, joined to the published district definitions.

Strict matching is a deliberate trade. It means some true relationships are missed. It also means nothing false is asserted, which matters more on a record that people make decisions from.

Coverage, stated plainly

• 6,205 current industrial assessment accounts, across 3,637 parcels.
• 6,147 accounts with historical assessment observations; 58 without.
• 65,179 annual assessment observations, 2005–2026.
• 1,809 accounts with matched building permit records (6,047 records).
• 2,847 accounts with matched development applications (11,890 records).
• 6,025 accounts with a published construction year; 180 without.

A trap worth knowing about

A civic address in Calgary is not a property key. A single address can cover several separately assessed parcels — one well-known Barlow Trail address covers dozens. That is why this site keys on the assessment account and the parcel identifier, and why the same address-matched permit records can appear on more than one account.

Statistics Canada context series

Three national series provide market context on the market pages: the industrial and warehouse rent index (a price index for occupied space, not an asking-rent survey), investment in warehouse building construction, and warehouse building permit values. All three are metropolitan or provincial aggregates. None of them is a Calgary property-level figure, and none is a rent quote.

What no open source publishes

Asking rent. Net effective rent. Vacancy. Availability. Absorption. Ownership. Tenancy. Sale prices. Clear height. Dock count. Power service. Sprinkler design. Building floor area.

None of these appear anywhere on this site, because none of them are in the sources. Where a fact is not published, it stays unknown rather than being estimated. The full source and licence register → · Methodology →