Acreages Near Calgary, Read From the Inventory
267 houses on an acre or more across Rocky View, Foothills, Mountain View and Wheatland. Where they are, what the land costs, and the one thing the word "acreage" gets wrong about price.
267 houses on an acre or more, as of September 17, 2026, across the four counties around Calgary. Median asking $1,799,900 on a median 5.0 acres. Price by parcel size is a U: the one- and two-acre ring nearest the city lists above everything up to forty acres, because proximity is what is priced; above forty it is farms, priced on scale.
The segment at a glance
houses on an acre or more, in the four counties and hamlets around Calgary
median asking price
median parcel — 2,394 sq ft house, built 1997
Counts read from the CREA DDF® feed on September 17, 2026.
More land does not cost more. Closer land does.
This is the part worth reading twice, because the phrase “acreage” makes people price by the acre. The inventory does not.
| Parcel size | Listings | Median asking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 – 2 acres | 18 | $2,150,000 |
| 2 – 5 acres | 105 | $1,699,900 |
| 5 – 10 acres | 46 | $1,649,900 |
| 10 – 40 acres | 67 | $1,989,000 |
| 40 acres and up | 31 | $2,500,000 |
Houses on 1+ acre, September 17, 2026.
1 – 2 acres lists for $500,100 more than 5 – 10 acres, at the median. That is backwards if land is what you are buying, and it is exactly right if location is. The one- and two-acre parcels are the ones inside the Rocky View ring — Springbank, Bearspaw, the west and north edges — twenty minutes from downtown, on a good road, with a house built this century. What is priced there is the commute, not the acreage. From two acres to forty the price falls as the drive gets longer, and stays there.
Then it climbs again. 40 acres and up is the most expensive band of all at $2,500,000, and that is not proximity — it is scale. Those are farms and working holdings, priced on the land and what it produces, and they are a different purchase from the acreage home most people picture. If your search is returning them, you are looking at the right county and the wrong product.
The practical consequence: if you want land — horses, a shop, room to not see the neighbour — the value is in the middle of that table, one county further out than you were planning. If you want a large lot with a city commute, budget for the ring and accept that ten acres is not on offer there at a price you would call reasonable.
Which county, and what it means
“Near Calgary” is four counties, and they are different markets. The county decides the tax bill, the road maintenance, the subdivision rules and who answers when you call about a permit. It is not a formality.
| County | Listings | Median asking | Median parcel | Median built |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky View County | 116 | $2,150,000 | 4.5 ac | 1994 |
| Foothills County | 86 | $2,097,000 | 5.3 ac | 2000 |
| Mountain View County | 35 | $1,195,000 | 6.0 ac | 2001 |
| Wheatland County | 18 | $1,200,000 | 10.0 ac | 1981 |
Houses on 1+ acre by county, September 17, 2026.
Rocky View
The ring: west (Springbank, Bearspaw), north (Balzac, Airdrie edge), east (Conrich, Chestermere edge). Smallest parcels, shortest commute, highest price per acre. The default answer to “acreage near Calgary”.
Foothills
South and south-west — Priddis, De Winton, Millarville, Okotoks edge. Larger parcels than Rocky View at a similar price, with the foothills view that the west side of Rocky View sells at a premium. The highest median in the table is here, and it is size, not proximity, doing that.
Mountain View
North past Airdrie and Crossfield — Carstairs, Didsbury, Water Valley. The cheapest way to own real land near Calgary, and the longest drive. Worth it for a buyer who is not commuting daily.
Wheatland
East — Strathmore and beyond. The largest parcels in the table for the least money. Prairie, not foothills; agricultural, not estate. If the question is “how much land can I get”, the answer is usually here.
Two things a search will show you that are not acreages
222 listings are bare land
Of everything labelled rural on the feed, 222 have no house on them at all — a median of 16 acres at $1,200,000. Some are farms, some are development parcels, some are a view with a survey stake in it. They are excluded from every figure on this page, and if one turns up in your search, the price is telling you about the dirt and the zoning, not about a home.
99 rural-labelled houses are on town lots
Heritage Pointe, Cochrane Lake, Balzac and the like are subdivisions with a rural address and a quarter-acre lot. A filter on “Rocky View” alone will hand you one. They can be excellent homes; they are not acreages, and they will not give you the thing an acreage buyer is actually paying for. This page counts nothing under an acre.
Before you make an offer on any of these
An acreage is not a house with a bigger yard. It is a house, a water system, a sewage system, a road agreement and a county file, and four of those five are invisible in the listing. The questions that decide whether daily life works — what the well tests at, when the septic field was last inspected, who maintains the last kilometre of road, whether the county will ever let you subdivide, how a lender values ten acres against two — are on their own page, because they deserve it:
The acreage due-diligence checklist →
Read that before you fall for a view. Everyone falls for the view.
Last updated 2026-09-17 · Written by Mohammad Emon, REALTOR® (SRES®) & Licensed Property Manager, KO Realty · RECA licence CON-00133897
