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Temple gets an A+ for health

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

What sets Temple apart within its region is distance, and at 2.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The survey counts 7.9% of adults as smokers, lower than both Alberta’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 83.0 years at birth, 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men. Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta.

Temple’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 36 of the 43 with results

The largest is Bishop McNally High School, with 1,631 students. Boards running schools in the area: 6, higher than both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). Elementary schools here average 422 students, against 274 in Alberta. The Catholic boards run 17 of its 49 schools, against 18% in Alberta.

Rent takes more of local pay in Temple than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 26% of household income

Nearly a quarter of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Owners make up three quarters of households, near both Alberta’s towns (74%) and Canadian towns (74%). Nobody publishes rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom for Temple alone, so this card uses the figure for the Calgary metro area.

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Temple trails that of 87% of Canadian towns

The car took 85% of commuters, below Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%) alike. The commute to work averages 27 min.

Hazards in Temple: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.1% of tested homes

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Temple as in most places, at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No flood study for Temple is on the national inventory.

Dry weather: only 445 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Temple, less than on 82% of Canadian towns

Snow peaks in March: 24 cm in a normal year. Rain and snow peak in June, at 113 mm. Frost usually lifts by 21 May and returns around 18 September: 119 days without it. July afternoons in Temple average 23.5°C.

More of Temple belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 61%

The under-15s are a fifth of the population here. 14% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Alberta’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (19%).

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

Into December, the normals move to freezing and −12°C. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 16 mm. About 19 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Calgary forecast, on the Weather page.

Dalwinder Gill (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Temple in Ottawa as MP for Calgary McKnight

Across Alberta, 33 of the 37 MPs sit with the Conservative Party of Canada.

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

Calgary Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Temple among them.

Temple gets 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). The force’s area logs 10.6 violent incidents 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.

The nearest provincial park to Temple is Fish Creek Provincial Park, 16 km away

The largest named area nearby is Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary, 111 ha, 5.8 km away. There is one protected area within 10 km. A drive of 86 km reaches Banff National Park, the nearest national park. 0.3% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).