Who actually showed up
to the Water Efficiency engagement.
The City’s Water Efficiency engagement ran Nov 17 – Dec 7, 2025 and drew 1,842 residential responses. The City’s “What We Heard” report packs the participant breakdown into bare frequency tables on pages 43–48. Below: who answered, what kind of home they live in, and where in the city they live. The map is raw participant counts, not opinions and not adjusted for community population — read it as engagement reach, not as a map of agreement.
The sample is self-selected. 90% of those who reported tenure own their home; 80% live in single-detached houses. The City published no microdata, so individual-level cross-tabs (e.g., dwelling-type by community) aren’t possible from the report alone.
Participants by community
Each shaded community is one of Calgary’s 313 community districts; colour intensity is the number of residential participants who selected that community in Q19. Of 1,622 responses tagged with a location, 1,527 resolve to a community boundary; the remaining 73are quadrant-only (“NW — community not specified”) and 22 name a sub-community or informal area not in the boundary file. 220 respondents skipped Q19 entirely.
Tuscany leads at 40 participants — nearly double the next-highest community. Inner-city and SE communities like Cranston, Lake Bonavista, Bowness, Signal Hill, McKenzie Lake and McKenzie Towne all cluster in the 20s. Roughly 40% of the city’s residential community districts had zero participants.
- 01Tuscany40
- 02Cranston26
- 03Lake Bonavista23
- 04Bowness22
- 05Douglasdale / Glen22
- 06Signal Hill22
- 07Canyon Meadows21
- 08Mckenzie Lake21
- 09Mckenzie Towne21
- 10Mount Pleasant21
- NW — community not specified24
- SW — community not specified22
- SE — community not specified12
- NE — community not specified1
- Inner city3
- Downtown — community not specified2
- North — community not specified2
- South — community not specified2
- Central — community not specified1
- West — community not specified1
- Airdrie1
- Chestermere1
- Okotoks1
- Bearspaw1
- Creekview1
- Deer River Estates1
- Hanson Ranch2
- Lynnwood4
- Marda Loop8
- Wentworth4
- Westmount1
These names appear in the report but don’t resolve to a City community-district boundary (sub-communities, informal area names, or regional areas outside the 313-district file).
Top 10 communities by participants
The ten communities with the most participants account for 239 of 1,527 (16%) mapped responses. Tuscany is a clear outlier at 40 — nearly double McKenzie Towne / McKenzie Lake / Canyon Meadows / Mount Pleasant / Woodbine, which tie at 21 each. Percentages below are share of the 1,527 mapped to a community boundary, not of all 1,842 respondents.
Dwelling type
Q17 asked “In which type of home do you live?” 80% of respondents live in a single-detached house. Apartment / condo dwellers — the group most likely to share a meter and have no control over outdoor watering — make up 4.4% of the sample. For comparison, the 2021 Census reported that roughly half of Calgary households live in a single-detached house and roughly a third in apartments, so single-detached owners are heavily over-represented here relative to the city as a whole.
Housing tenure
Q18 asked “Do you own or rent your current residence?” 90% own, 8.3% rent. The 2021 Census put Calgary’s renter share around 28%, so renters are roughly one-third as represented here as in the city overall. That matters because the report’s narrative repeatedly surfaces renter-specific barriers (shared meters, landlord decision-making, no control over fixtures) — barriers that are flagged by a sample where renters are the exception, not the rule.