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Silverado earns an A+ for health

Measured across the Calgary Zone: health survey and life expectancy

The region has fewer smokers than Alberta, 7.9% of adults to 11%. 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%). People in the region live to 83.0 on average: 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Silverado apart within its region is distance, and at 3.1 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical).

Silverado’s schools mostly beat the middle in Alberta, 10 of the 17 with results

Taken together, Silverado and its 3 km edge hold 17 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade for 17,234 students. The largest is All Saints School, with 1,845 students.

Silverado is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Government of Alberta

Source area for radon tests: the Calgary Health Region

About as many homes carry radon around Silverado as elsewhere, 8.1% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Earthquake risk locally is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030.

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

Frosty days number 193 in a normal year, near Alberta’s towns (193) and higher than Canadian towns (159). A normal June brings 113 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Between the last spring frost, 21 May, and the first in autumn, 18 September, lie 119 days. July afternoons in Silverado average 23.5°C.

Silverado is a town of owners: 89% of households own their home, above Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

22% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, near Alberta’s towns (21%) and higher than Canadian towns (18%). Nobody publishes rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom for Silverado alone, so this card uses the figure for the Calgary metro area.

More of Silverado belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 52%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1.6% of residents, below Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

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

For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Okotoks forecast. A typical November adds 19 cm of snow. Then December: freezing by day, −12°C at night. Precipitation in November averages 16 mm.

Stephanie Kusie won Calgary Midnapore by 27,321 votes in 2021, a wider lead than in 92% of Canada’s ridings

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

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

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

Silverado 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). For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 10.6 violent incidents are reported each year. The force’s area logs 31.9 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year.

Commuters in Silverado travel further than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns, 32 min on average

87% of commuters drove, close to both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Beaches near Silverado: 6 within 5 km

4.7% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). The closest provincial park is Fish Creek Provincial Park, 2.7 km from the edge of town. 8.1 km out lies the largest, Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area, at 1,943 ha. CPCAD lists 2 protected areas within 10 km.