Alberta AvenueEdmonton

Alberta Avenue’s grade for hazard risk: an A+

Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is lower than usual: 1.4% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. The national flood inventory has no study for Alberta Avenue. For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Edmonton, Alberta Avenue included.

The car carries only 79% of commuters in Alberta Avenue, fewer than in Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 25 min, in line with Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

Rent takes more of local pay in Alberta Avenue than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 29% of household income

Owners put the median home at $270,000, below Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike.

Violent crime weighs more where Alberta Avenue is policed than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 128

Measured across the Edmonton service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 110 over 2023–25, near Alberta’s towns (110) and higher than Canadian towns (67). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 45 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed.

Schools in Alberta Avenue: 7 boards, side by side

Taken together, Alberta Avenue and its 3 km edge hold 29 elementary schools, 19 secondary schools and 12 schools for every grade for 29,376 students. 28 of 40 schools with results score below the middle in Alberta. Centre High is the biggest, at 2,501 students. In French: 3 of the 60 schools, where in Alberta the share is 2%.

Around Alberta Avenue, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent

Shared with the rest of the Edmonton Zone: health survey and life expectancy

Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). For Alberta Avenue itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.5 km on average, with 18 within 3 km of the typical home.

Less rain and snow fall on Alberta Avenue than on 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year

July afternoons in Alberta Avenue average 23.5°C. Frost comes on 179 days a year, between Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). A normal July brings 83 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year.

More of Alberta Avenue’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 14%

38% of residents belong to a visible minority, above Alberta’s towns (29%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 13% of residents are 65 or older.

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

About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 18 mm. Into December, the normals move to −5°C and −13°C. Also worth knowing: across the year, normals run from −15°C nights in January to 24°C afternoons in July.

Kerry Diotte (Conservative Party of Canada) holds Edmonton Griesbach, the riding that includes Alberta Avenue

From Alberta come 37 MPs, 33 of them with the Conservative Party of Canada.

Alberta Avenue has two public libraries, Edmonton Public Library Sprucewood Branch and Worsley And District Public Library

Edmonton Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Alberta Avenue among them.

Within 34 km of Alberta Avenue: Elk Island National Park

11 km from town is Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. 3 mapped walking routes pass within 2 km, among them the Amisk Wacîw Mêskanaw and Edmonton Pedway Network. One beach is mapped within 5 km: Accidental Beach.

Before 1961: 54% of the homes in Alberta Avenue