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Forest Heights gets an A+ for health

Expected years of life at birth: 83.0, above both Alberta’s towns (81.2) and Canadian towns (81.5). Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole manages 53%. The region has fewer smokers than Alberta, 7.9% of adults to 11%. For Forest Heights itself the measure is access: 3.2 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Forest Heights doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Calgary Zone.

Forest Heights’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 37 of the 43 with results

Its schools answer to 6 boards. Lester B. Pearson High School is the biggest, at 1,616 students. Within 3 km of Forest Heights are 36 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and 11 schools for every grade, teaching 23,662 students.

Renting in Forest Heights eats 28% of household income, more than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

Source area for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom: the Calgary metro area

A quarter of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Home ownership covers nearly two thirds of households.

Working-age people in Forest Heights are less likely to have a job than in 90% of Canadian towns

A trip to work takes 28 min on average. 83% of commuters drove, below both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Hazards in Forest Heights: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.1% of tested homes

For earthquakes Forest Heights is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. The national flood inventory has no study of the town.

Precipitation in Forest Heights trails that of 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm a year

A normal July day peaks at 23.5°C, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). For the wettest month, look to June: 113 mm on average. Between the last spring frost, 21 May, and the first in autumn, 18 September, lie 119 days. Snow peaks in March: 24 cm in a normal year.

Visible minorities make up more of Forest Heights than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 56%

People 65 and over make up 14% of the town, below both Alberta’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (19%). The under-15s are 18% of the population here.

In Forest Heights, November normally means 4°C afternoons and −8°C nights

In November, the normal is 16 mm of rain and snow. Then December: freezing by day, −12°C at night. About 19 cm of snow falls in a normal November. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Calgary forecast.

Jasraj Hallan (Conservative Party of Canada) holds Calgary East, the riding that includes Forest Heights

Calgary’s council runs Forest Heights, one of the city’s neighbourhoods.

Calgary Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries

Calgary Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Forest Heights among them.

Forest Heights gets a B− for safety

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 67 over 2023–25, below Alberta’s towns (110) and close to Canadian towns (67). Its police area records 10.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The force’s area logs 31.9 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year. Forest Heights shares its Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers with the rest of the Calgary service area.

Fish Creek Provincial Park is 12 km from Forest Heights

For a national park, Banff National Park is 85 km away. There is one protected area within 10 km. Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary (111 ha) is the biggest, 1.7 km from town. Within 10 km of the town, 0.3% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town.