Beverly HeightsEdmonton

Beverly Heights is graded an A+ for hazard risk

Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Government of Alberta has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Capital Health, with Beverly Heights one part of it.

Rent takes more of local pay in Beverly Heights than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 25% of household income

27% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 67%. For rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, the only official count covers all of the Edmonton metro area, Beverly Heights included.

Beverly Heights’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 18 of the 26 with results

Argyll Home School Centre is the biggest, at 2,176 students. Its schools answer to 4 boards. In or within 3 km of Beverly Heights: 20 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade, with 13,474 students.

Violent crime weighs more where Beverly Heights 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

The index for the force that serves it came to 110, close to Alberta’s towns (110) and above Canadian towns (67). For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 45 property crimes are reported each year.

Fewer of Beverly Heights’ 15-to-64s are in work than in 89% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 24 min, below Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min) alike. The car took 88% of commuters, close to both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

51% of adults around Beverly Heights rate their health very good or excellent

Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.6, men 78.8, in 2022/2024. What sets Beverly Heights apart within its region is distance, and at 3.7 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.5 km away on average and 11 of them within 3 km of a typical home.

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

Expect July highs of around 23.5°C in Beverly Heights. There are 179 days of frost in a typical year, between Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). For the wettest month, look to July: 83 mm on average. Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year.

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

13% are under 15, below both Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for 22% of residents.

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

Rain and snow over a typical November come to 18 mm. Then December: −5°C by day, −13°C at night. About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Over the year, July is warmest at 24°C by day and January coldest at −15°C by night.

Kerry Diotte (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Beverly Heights in Ottawa as MP for Edmonton Griesbach

Local government for Beverly Heights is Edmonton’s, with Andrew Knack as mayor.

The nearest public library to Beverly Heights is Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee, 1 km away

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

Beverly Heights is 29 km from Elk Island National Park

The closest provincial park is Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, 16 km from the edge of town. For a swim, Accidental Beach is the beach within 5 km. One named trail is close: the Amisk Wacîw Mêskanaw.

An older town: 45% of Beverly Heights’s homes predate 1961