BearspawEdmonton

Bearspaw gets an A+ for hazard risk

Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory for Bearspaw. Bearspaw shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Edmonton.

Bearspaw’s schools mostly beat the middle in Alberta, 22 of the 30 with results

Elementary schools here average 390 students, against 274 in Alberta. The schools around it answer to 2 boards, below both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). The largest is Harry Ainlay School, with 2,745 students. Also worth knowing: 19,432 students attend the 20 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade in or within 3 km of Bearspaw.

The force covering Bearspaw records more serious violence than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns, at 128

The Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers here cover the Edmonton service area

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 110 over 2023–25, close to Alberta’s towns (110) and above Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 45 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year.

More households own their home in Bearspaw than in Alberta’s towns or across Canadian towns: 85%

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Edmonton metro area

15% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. A year’s rent came to 19% of the median household income, near both Alberta’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Bearspaw gets a B+ for jobs & income

The car took 86% of commuters, near both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%). The commute to work averages 25 min.

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

Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Bearspaw is well placed: 1.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 1.0 km away on average and 9.6 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Bearspaw doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton Zone.

Dry weather: only 423 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Bearspaw, less than on 90% of Canadian towns

A normal July day peaks at 23.5°C, near Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and lower than Canadian towns (25.5°C). Rain and snow peak in July, at 83 mm. Most of the snow comes in January, about 26 cm. The frost-free season runs from 7 May to 25 September, 141 days.

More of Bearspaw belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 32%

2.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity, lower than both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

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

The forecast on the Weather page is ECCC’s for Edmonton. Next comes December, with normal highs of −5°C and lows of −13°C. November usually brings some 20 cm of snow. A normal November brings 18 mm of rain and snow.

Bearspaw straddles 2 federal ridings, from Edmonton Gateway to Edmonton Riverbend

As a neighbourhood of Edmonton, Bearspaw answers to the city council and its mayor, Andrew Knack.

No public library stands in Bearspaw: the closest, Whitemud Crossing Library EPL, is 4 km away

Bearspaw is served by Edmonton Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people.

Elk Island National Park is 36 km from Bearspaw

Within 5 km lie 2 beaches, unnamed on the map. For a provincial park, Big Island Provincial Park lies 7.8 km off. 0.3% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).