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Carstairs’s grade for health: an A

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. Expected years of life at birth: 83.0, above both Alberta’s towns (81.2) and Canadian towns (81.5). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Carstairs’ is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Also worth knowing: across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole manages 53%.

Carstairs and its edges hold 2 schools: 1 elementary school and 1 school for every grade

Carstairs is a town of owners: 86% of households own their home, above Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

18% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below Alberta’s towns (21%) and close to Canadian towns (18%). The median home value was $352,000, below Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike.

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

Earthquake risk in Carstairs is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.022 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Calgary Health Region, with Carstairs one part of it.

Carstairs has cooler summers than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 22.8°C

There are 233 days of frost in a typical year, above both Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). Midwinter nights in Carstairs bottom out at −18.0°C on average. Most of the snow comes in March, about 24 cm. The frost-free season runs from 13 June to 25 August, 72 days.

For the force that serves Carstairs, the Crime Severity Index is 55, below Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Carstairs

Property crime in the area its police cover: 19.1 per 1,000 people a year. For violence alone, its police area’s index was 78, below Alberta’s towns (109) and Canadian towns (86) alike. The force’s area logs 10.8 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, the only official count covers all of the Didsbury detachment area, Carstairs included.

Trips to work from Carstairs take longer than from Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 34 min on average

The car took 91% of commuters, in line with Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

A town of families: 23% of people in Carstairs are under 15, more than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 5.6% of residents, above both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 18% of residents.

In Carstairs, November normally means 3°C afternoons and −12°C nights

Next comes December, with normal highs of −1°C and lows of −17°C. November usually brings some 19 cm of snow. Expect about 16 mm of rain and snow over November. The forecast on the Weather page is ECCC’s for Airdrie.

William Stevenson (Conservative Party of Canada) holds Yellowhead, the riding that includes Carstairs

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

Carstairs Library lends 13.3 items per person served, more than four in five Alberta’s town libraries

Carstairs Library has 2 branches for the 4,077 people it serves.

From Carstairs, Big Hill Springs Provincial Park is the nearest provincial park (37 km)

A drive of 78 km reaches Banff National Park, the nearest national park.