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Marlborough is graded an A+ for health

Chronic conditions run at 16% of adults, age-standardised, below Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike, while the survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. Lives in the region last 83.0 years on average (2022/2024): 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men. For Marlborough itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Marlborough doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Calgary Zone.

Most schools around Marlborough score below the middle in Alberta: 43 of 51

Counting a 3 km margin, Marlborough has 39 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and 15 schools for every grade, for 27,326 students. The largest is Lester B. Pearson High School, with 1,616 students. They come under 6 school boards.

Rent takes more of local pay in Marlborough than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 28% of household income

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 22% of households, higher than both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 65%.

Marlborough has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 89% of Canadian towns

84% of commuters drove, below Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%) alike. A trip to work takes 27 min on average.

Wildfire low, radon 8.1%: how Marlborough stands on hazards

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Calgary Health Region

For earthquakes Marlborough is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. No one has filed a flood map for Marlborough on the national inventory.

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

Gardeners get 119 frost-free days, from 21 May to 18 September. A normal June brings 113 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Summer highs average 23.5°C in July, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). Snow peaks in March: 24 cm in a normal year.

More of Marlborough belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 65%

The under-15s are 18% of the population here. First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1.9% of residents, lower than both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). 17% of residents are 65 or over.

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

Snowfall in a normal November: 19 cm. December follows at freezing by day and −12°C by night. Expect about 16 mm of rain and snow over November. ECCC’s forecast for Calgary is on the Weather page, hour by hour.

Jasraj Hallan (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Marlborough in Ottawa as MP for Calgary East

From Alberta come 37 MPs, 33 of them with the Conservative Party of Canada.

Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 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, Marlborough among them.

Marlborough is graded 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 10.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 31.9 per 1,000 people a year. Figures for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 are published for the Calgary service area as a whole, not for Marlborough alone.

12 km from Marlborough to Fish Creek Provincial Park

2.2 km out lies the largest, Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary, at 111 ha. 0.3% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). A drive of 85 km reaches Banff National Park, the nearest national park. Within 5 km is one beach, Trout Beach.