It is an inner city community, located east of the Elbow River, Macleod Trail, Stampede Grounds and the Scotiabank Saddledome arena and south of Inglewood.

It was named Ramsay in 1956 when residents of Burnsland, Brewery Flats, Grandview and Mills Estate consolidated as a new community.

It was named for William Thomson Ramsay (1857-1921), an early land agent and property owner.

As a reference, the median household income for the whole city of Calgary was approximately 30% greater: $57,879.

[8] The low income residents living in the neighbourhood represented 19.5% of its total population.