Neighbourhood Guide
What to know about Kildare.
Most of Kildare was developed during the 1960s, but residential development continued well in to the 1980s. The major structure type in the neighbourhood is the single-detached house, although almost half of the total dwelling units are contained in row houses, collective residences and low rise apartments.
Kildare has a relatively high mix of land uses, due to the presence of St. Michael's Cemetery and Londonderry Mall. Roughly 45 percent of Kildare's property area is residential, and the remainder of the area is commercial and institutional. Kildare Park provides residents with a large open space and the students of adjacent Kildare Elementary with recreational/play space. The neighbourhood's connection with 137th Avenue, and close proximity to 97th Street provides residents with easy access to other parts of the city.
Kildare, Londonderry Mall and several surrounding neighbourhoods are named for Irish towns and counties. Kildare is named after the town and county of Kildare, Ireland. A nunnery was founded there by St. Bridget (453-523) who changed the name from Druim Criaidh to Cill-dara, which means church of the oak. The anglicized version of Cill-dara became Kildare. The name aligns with other Irish names for neighbourhoods within the area, including: Kilkenny, Killarney, and Londonderry.
The City of Edmonton open-data release of the 2021 federal census records 2,835 residents in Kildare. The count is filed under neighbourhood number 2400, in the Northeast district and the tastawiyiniwak ward. The census figure is the 2021 count, not a current population.
School designation for an address in Kildare comes from Edmonton Public Schools or Edmonton Catholic Schools, not from this page. Each division publishes an address lookup because attendance areas change. The City neighbourhood profile describes parks, housing and streets. It is not a school-boundary map.
John Carle works with buyers and sellers in Kildare through Homes & Gardens Real Estate Limited. Active asking prices on this page come from the MLS® feed. Sold-market statistics for Edmonton are published by the Realtors Association of Edmonton.
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