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For health, Canyon Meadows gets an A

Measured across the Calgary Zone: health survey and life expectancy

Smoking takes in 7.9% of adults, age-standardised, below Alberta’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%) alike. Women in the region live to 85.0 and men to 80.9, 83.0 years taken together (2022/2024); what’s more, the survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. For Canyon Meadows itself the measure is access: 4.5 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km.

The schools around Canyon Meadows answer to 5 boards

2 of the 56 teach in French, against 2% of schools in Alberta. The largest is Lord Beaverbrook High School, with 2,059 students. The 37 with results split, 18 in the upper two fifths in Alberta and 10 in the lower.

Measured against local pay, Canyon Meadows costs more to live in than four in five Canadian towns

The owner-occupied share of households is 80%. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 16% of households, lower than both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). Behind rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom sits data gathered across the Calgary metro area, with Canyon Meadows one part of it.

Household incomes in Canyon Meadows top those of 89% of Canadian towns

83% of commuters took the car to work at the census. The average trip to work took 26 min, near both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

Hazards in Canyon Meadows: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.1% of tested homes

Source area for radon tests: the Calgary Health Region

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Canyon Meadows as in most places, at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). The national flood inventory has no study of the town. Canyon Meadows doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.

Canyon Meadows is drier than four in five Canadian towns: 445 mm of rain and snow a year

Summer highs average 23.5°C in July, about level with Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). Rain and snow peak in June, at 113 mm. Snow peaks in March: 24 cm in a normal year. Between the last spring frost, 21 May, and the first in autumn, 18 September, lie 119 days.

Children make up only 15% of Canyon Meadows, fewer than in both Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

17% of residents belong to a visible minority, below Alberta’s towns (29%) but above Canadian towns (15%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 18% of residents.

What November brings in Canyon Meadows: −8°C at night, 4°C by day

Precipitation in November averages 16 mm. Snow is normal by November, about 19 cm over the month. By December, a normal day reaches freezing and a night falls to −12°C. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Calgary forecast.

Canyon Meadows’ MP is Shuvaloy Majumdar (Conservative Party of Canada), for Calgary Heritage

33 of the 37 MPs from Alberta belong to the Conservative Party of Canada.

Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries

Canyon Meadows is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people.

For safety, Canyon Meadows gets a B−

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over the Calgary service area

The index for the force that serves it came to 67, lower than Alberta’s towns (110) and near Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 10.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 31.9 property crimes are reported each year.

Fish Creek Provincial Park is 0.1 km from Canyon Meadows

Within 10 km are 3 protected areas. For a national park, Banff National Park is 82 km away. Protected areas cover 3.7% of the land within 10 km, above both Alberta’s towns (0.4%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). OpenStreetMap shows 6 unnamed beaches within 5 km.