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Penbrooke Meadows earns an A for health

Measured across the Calgary Zone: health survey and life expectancy

For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 83.0 years at birth, 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men. Age-standardised, 56% of the region’s adults put their health at very good or excellent, higher than both Alberta’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%). What sets Penbrooke Meadows apart within its region is distance, and at 4.4 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Smoking is rarer than in the province: 7.9% of adults, against 11% for Alberta.

Working-age people in Penbrooke Meadows have jobs less often than in 94% of Canadian towns

Driving is how 84% of commuters got to work at the census. The average trip to work took 27 min, higher than Alberta’s towns (26 min) and near Canadian towns (26 min).

Penbrooke Meadows’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 34 of the 38 with results

Schooling here is split between 4 boards, above both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). Lester B. Pearson High School is the biggest, at 1,616 students. Also worth knowing: 21,757 students attend the 31 elementary schools, 10 secondary schools and 7 schools for every grade in or within 3 km of Penbrooke Meadows.

Rent takes more of local pay in Penbrooke Meadows than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 33% of household income

64% of households own their home, lower than both Alberta’s towns (74%) and Canadian towns (74%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 27% of households, above Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Penbrooke Meadows doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Calgary metro area.

Penbrooke Meadows’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.1% of area homes over the radon guideline

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

NRCan expects $0.023 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Penbrooke Meadows, near the typical $0.030. No flood study for Penbrooke Meadows is on the national inventory. Penbrooke Meadows shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Calgary.

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

There are 193 days of frost in a typical year, about level with Alberta’s towns (193) and above Canadian towns (159). The most precipitation falls in June: 113 mm in a normal year. Between the last spring frost, 21 May, and the first in autumn, 18 September, lie 119 days. Summer highs in Penbrooke Meadows reach 23.5°C in July.

More of Penbrooke Meadows belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 46%

14% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Alberta’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (19%). Under-15s account for 17% of the population.

A normal November in Penbrooke Meadows runs from −8°C to 4°C

In November, the normal is 16 mm of rain and snow. 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. Across the year, normals run from −14°C nights in January to 24°C afternoons in July.

Penbrooke Meadows’ MP is Jasraj Hallan (Conservative Party of Canada), for Calgary East

Local decisions for Penbrooke Meadows are made by Calgary’s council; neighbourhoods don’t have their own.

More loans per person served than four in five Alberta’s town libraries: Calgary Library lends 12.7

The library figures on this page are Calgary’s: Calgary Library serves all 1,285,711 people of the city, Penbrooke Meadows among them.

Penbrooke Meadows earns a B− for safety

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 67 over 2023–25, about level with Canadian towns (67) and below Alberta’s towns (110). Violence across its police area runs at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 31.9 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed. Behind Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 sits data gathered across the Calgary service area, with Penbrooke Meadows one part of it.

Fish Creek Provincial Park is 11 km from Penbrooke Meadows

Biggest among them: Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary, 111 ha, 2.8 km off. Of the country within 10 km, 0.3% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. A drive of 87 km reaches Banff National Park, the nearest national park.