Discovery Ridge, Calgary

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| official_name = Discovery Ridge

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| settlement_type = Neighbourhood

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| pushpin_map = Canada Calgary

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Discovery Ridge in Calgary

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{CAN}}

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = {{AB}}

| subdivision_type2 = City

| subdivision_name2 = {{flag|Calgary}}

| subdivision_type3 = Quadrant

| subdivision_name3 = SW

| subdivision_type4 = Ward

| subdivision_name4 = 6

| government_footnotes = {{Calgary City Council|ref}}

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = {{Calgary City Council|mayor}}

| leader_title1 = Administrative body

| leader_name1 = Calgary City Council

| leader_title2 = Councillor

| leader_name2 = {{Calgary City Council|6}}

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1990

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| population_as_of = 2006

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| population_total = 3105

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| population_blank1_title = Average Income

| population_blank1 = $128844

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| coordinates = {{coord|51|00|59|N|114|12|41|W|region:CA-AB|display=inline,title}}

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 1110

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = T3H

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| website = [http://www.calgaryarea.com/sw/discoveryridge/discoveryridge.htm Discovery Ridge Community Association]

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Discovery Ridge is a residential neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located at the western edge of the city and is bounded by Stoney Trail to the north, 69 Street W to the east, Rocky View County and the city limits to the west and the Elbow River and Tsuu T'ina first nation reserve to the south.

Long before development, this area was referred to by longtime Calgarians as "Jackson's Valley", an isolated valley beside the Sarcee Military Reserve. When development first began in the late 1990s, the community was known as New Discovery and it was originally planned as a gated community, but this idea was later dropped and today, Discovery Ridge can be accessed by the public.

Discovery Ridge was a project initialized by a developer in the early 1990.

It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 6 councillor.

Demographics

In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Discovery Ridge had a population of {{nts|4350}} living in {{nts|1649}} dwellings, a 0.7% increase from its 2011 population of {{nts|4321}}.{{cite web | url=http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Documents/Election-and-information-services/Census2012/Final%202012%20Census%20Results%20book.pdf | title=2012 Civic Census Results | publisher=City of Calgary | year=2012 | access-date=February 4, 2013 | archive-date=June 1, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601084040/https://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Documents/Election-and-information-services/Census2012/Final%202012%20Census%20Results%20book.pdf | url-status=dead }} With a land area of {{convert|3.6|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|4350|3.6|km2|sqmi}} in 2012.{{cite web | url=https://cityonline.calgary.ca/Pages/Product.aspx?category=PDCAdministrativeBoundaries&cat=CITYonlineDefault&id=PDC0-99999-99999-00005-P | title=Community Boundaries | publisher=City of Calgary | format=Esri shapefile | access-date=February 5, 2013 | archive-date=October 23, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023055637/https://cityonline.calgary.ca/Pages/Product.aspx?category=PDCAdministrativeBoundaries&cat=CITYonlineDefault&id=PDC0-99999-99999-00005-P | url-status=dead }}

Residents in this community had a median household income of $128,844 in 2000, and there were no low income residents living in the neighbourhood.{{Cite web|url=http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/ward_6_%20profile.pdf |title=Ward 6 Profile |author=City of Calgary |year=2004 |access-date=2007-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181740/http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/ward_6_%20profile.pdf |archive-date=2007-09-30 |url-status=dead }} As of 2000, 32.3% of the residents were immigrants. Most buildings were single-family detached homes and estate homes and none of the housing was used for renting.{{Cite web| url= http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/discovery_ridge.pdf| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061006064209/http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/discovery_ridge.pdf| url-status= dead| archive-date= October 6, 2006| title= Discovery Ridge Community Statistics| author= City of Calgary| year= 2006| access-date= 2007-05-14}}