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Huntington Hills gets an A for health

Measured across the Calgary Zone: health survey and life expectancy

The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average 16% of adults, lower than both Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (17%). The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta, and the region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 83.0, with women at 85.0 and men at 80.9. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.6 km from the average resident of Huntington Hills, about the norm of 3.7 km.

Rent takes more of local pay in Huntington Hills than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 29% of household income

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Calgary metro area

23% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 60%.

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Huntington Hills trails that of 87% of Canadian towns

The car took 82% of commuters, below both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%). Getting to work takes 26 min on average.

A flood study covers Huntington Hills: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta

For earthquakes Huntington Hills is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon is about average around Huntington Hills: 8.1% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Calgary Health Region, with Huntington Hills one part of it. Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Huntington Hills alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Calgary.

In the lower two fifths in Alberta: 12 of the 21 schools around Huntington Hills with results

Within 3 km, 2 boards share the schools, lower than both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). St. Francis High School is the biggest, at 2,210 students. Counting a 3 km margin, Huntington Hills has 25 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade, for 15,977 students.

Less rain and snow fall on Huntington Hills than on 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm a year

Snow peaks in March: 24 cm in a normal year. For the wettest month, look to June: 113 mm on average. Summer highs average 23.5°C in July, near Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and lower than Canadian towns (25.5°C). The frost-free season runs from 21 May to 18 September, 119 days.

Visible minorities make up more of Huntington Hills than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 35%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 6% of residents, above both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). The under-15s are 17% of the population here. Retirement age and beyond: 18% of residents are 65 or older.

Expect November days around 4°C in Huntington Hills, nights around −8°C

The forecast on the Weather page is ECCC’s for Calgary. Snowfall in a normal November: 19 cm. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 16 mm. A normal December brings highs of freezing, lows of −12°C.

Michelle Rempel Garner won Calgary Nose Hill by 17,690 votes in 2021, a wider lead than in 84% of Canada’s ridings

As part of Calgary, Huntington Hills is governed by the city’s council, not one of its own.

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

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

Huntington Hills gets a B− for safety

The index for the force that serves it came to 67, lower than Alberta’s towns (110) and near Canadian towns (67). Its police area records 31.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Violence across its police area runs at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year.

Huntington Hills is 14 km from Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park

For a national park, Banff National Park is 76 km away. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0.2% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. The largest is Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary: 111 ha, 8.5 km from the edge of town.