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Renfrew is graded an A+ for health

Adults who call their own health very good or excellent: 56%, above Alberta’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%) alike. The region has fewer smokers than Alberta, 7.9% of adults to 11%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Renfrew live 3.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Also worth knowing: women in the region live to 85.0 and men to 80.9, 83.0 years taken together (2022/2024). Renfrew doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Calgary Zone.

Fewer households own their home in Renfrew than in Alberta’s towns or across Canadian towns: 57%

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

Owners put the median home at $552,000, above Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike. A year’s rent came to nearly a quarter of the median household income, higher than both Alberta’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Driving to work is less common in Renfrew than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 77% of commuters

The commute to work averages 22 min.

A flood study covers Renfrew: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Renfrew as in most places, at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is about average around Renfrew: nearly a tenth of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Renfrew alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Calgary.

9 boards run the schools in and around Renfrew

Counting a 3 km margin, Renfrew has 22 elementary schools, 16 secondary schools and 23 schools for every grade, for 30,159 students. The Gilbertine Academy is the biggest, at 6,218 students. Results are mixed: 13 of 37 schools above the middle in Alberta, 14 below it. In French: one of the 61 schools, where in Alberta the share is 2%.

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

The warmest stretch brings July afternoons of 23.5°C, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). A normal June brings 113 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Most of the snow comes in March, about 24 cm. Frost usually lifts by 21 May and returns around 18 September: 119 days without it.

3,270 households and a median age of 37.2: who lives in Renfrew

Visible minorities make up 22% of the population, lower than Alberta’s towns (29%) yet higher than Canadian towns (15%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 3.2% of residents, between Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

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

Into December, the normals move to freezing and −12°C. A typical November adds 19 cm of snow. A normal November brings 16 mm of rain and snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Calgary forecast, on the Weather page.

Renfrew’s MP is Corey Hogan (Liberal Party of Canada), for Calgary Confederation

Of the 37 Commons seats from Alberta, the Conservative Party of Canada holds 33.

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

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

Renfrew is graded a B− for safety

The index for the force that serves it came to 67, below Alberta’s towns (110) and close to Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 10.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Its police area records 31.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents 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 Renfrew alone.

The nearest provincial park, Fish Creek Provincial Park, is 12 km from Renfrew

OpenStreetMap shows one walking route nearby, the Calgary Plus 15. The largest is Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary: 111 ha, 1.8 km from the edge of town. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0.3% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. For a national park, Banff National Park is 80 km away.

Older housing stands out in Renfrew: 37% predates 1961