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For health, Somerset gets an A+

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Calgary Zone

Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 83.0, women 85.0 and men 80.9 (2022/2024). Smokers make up 7.9% of the region’s adults, lower than both Alberta’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). By contrast, the survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Somerset is well placed: 1.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical.

11 of Somerset’s 18 tested schools score in the top two fifths in Alberta

Centennial High School is the biggest, at 1,793 students. No single board runs them all: there are 3. Within 3 km of Somerset are 19 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade, teaching 16,305 students.

Measured against local pay, Somerset costs more to live in than 85% of Canadian towns

Shelter took 30% or more of income for nearly a quarter of households, higher than both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). Just over three quarters of households own their home. Behind rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom sits data gathered across the Calgary metro area, with Somerset one part of it.

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

Measured across the Calgary Health Region: radon tests

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Somerset as in most places, at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, nearly one in ten homes tested in the town’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%.

Commuters in Somerset travel further than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns, 30 min on average

82% of commuters drove to work at the census.

Precipitation in Somerset trails that of 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. In July the thermometer climbs to 23.5°C by day, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). Frost usually lifts by 21 May and returns around 18 September: 119 days without it.

Visible minorities make up more of Somerset than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 44%

1.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

What November brings in Somerset: −8°C at night, 4°C by day

Looking ahead to December, expect highs near freezing and lows near −12°C. In November, the normal is 16 mm of rain and snow. About 19 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Calgary forecast, on the Weather page.

Calgary Midnapore gave Stephanie Kusie a 27,321-vote lead in 2021, bigger than in 92% of ridings

Somerset is a Calgary neighbourhood, so city council decides its local matters.

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

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

For safety, Somerset gets a B−

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 67 over 2023–25, lower than Alberta’s towns (110) and near Canadian towns (67). For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 10.6 violent incidents are reported each year. Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 31.9 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed. Nobody publishes Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for Somerset alone, so this card uses the figure for the Calgary service area.

8 beaches lie within 5 km of Somerset

Count 2 protected areas within 10 km of town. Fish Creek Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 1.9 km. Within 10 km, 4.6% of the land is protected, above Alberta’s towns (0.4%) and Canadian towns (2.3%) alike. Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area (1,943 ha) is the biggest, 8.3 km from town.