CanmoreAlberta

Rent takes more of local pay in Canmore than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 27% of household income

Households that own their home make up 66%. Owners put the median home at $850,000, above both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Commuters in Canmore have a short way to work, 20 min on average, less than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

Canmore scores better for health than 96% of Canadian towns

Measured across the Calgary Zone: health survey and life expectancy

Smoking is rarer than in the province: 7.9% of adults, against 11% for Alberta, while life expectancy at birth in the region is 83.0 years, above both Alberta’s towns (81.2) and Canadian towns (81.5). The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. What sets Canmore apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.3 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical).

The schools around Canmore answer to 3 boards

Counting a 3 km margin, Canmore has 3 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade, for 2,112 students. On the tests, 2 of 5 schools land above the middle in Alberta, 2 under it. One of the 7 teaches in French, against 2% of schools in Alberta.

Canmore has cooler summers than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 22.5°C

April is the snowiest month, with 30 cm on average. Frosty days number 220 in a normal year, above both Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). Also worth knowing: rain and snow peak in June, at 73 mm. Frost usually lifts by 19 June and returns around 23 August: 64 days without it.

Canmore’s Violent Crime Severity Index, 41, runs below Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

Violent incidents came to 8.8 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Alberta’s towns (14.2) and Canadian towns (12). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 32.3 per 1,000 residents a year.

Canmore is on Canada’s flood inventory: 2 listed, led by Government of Alberta

Radon is about average around Canmore: 8.1% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Seismic risk in Canmore sits near the middle: $0.034 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. The burn rate around Canmore is 0.13% a year (4.5% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. Canmore doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Calgary Health Region.

A normal November in Canmore runs from −8°C to 1°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Canmore forecast, on the Weather page. Into December, the normals move to −5°C and −13°C. About 25 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 28 mm.

Canmore sends William Stevenson (Conservative Party of Canada) to the Commons from Yellowhead

No provincial riding is named for Canmore: the only boundary file for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta forbids commercial reuse.

Each person Public Library of Canmore serves borrows 16.7 items, more than at 94% of Alberta’s town libraries

Public Library of Canmore serves 13,992 people from a single building.

Children make up only 13% of Canmore, fewer than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

18% speak both English and French, above both Alberta’s towns (5.7%) and Canadian towns (7.5%). People 65 and over make up 17% of the town.

All of Canmore sits within Banff National Park

90% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). Inside the town itself, 57% of the land is protected. Named trails close by number 7, the Centennial Ridge Trail and Grassi Lakes among them. 4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Crosbow Beach.