BissetEdmonton

Bisset earns 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). No one has filed a flood map for Bisset on the national inventory.

The force covering Bisset 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, 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.

Bisset’s owners put the middle home’s value at $348,000

18% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below Alberta’s towns (21%) and close to Canadian towns (18%). Behind rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom sits data gathered across the Edmonton metro area, with Bisset one part of it.

3 school boards share Bisset

The 32 with results split, 12 in the upper two fifths in Alberta and 10 in the lower. The largest is Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School, with 1,394 students. Taken together, Bisset and its 3 km edge hold 26 elementary schools, 8 secondary schools and 4 schools for every grade for 18,043 students.

Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Bisset’s health region

Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). For Bisset itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.6 km on average, with 5.4 within 3 km of the typical home. Bisset shares its health survey and life expectancy numbers with the rest of the Edmonton Zone.

Bisset’s household incomes are higher than in 77% of Canadian towns

83% of commuters drove to work at the census. Commutes averaged 28 min, above both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

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

Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year. July is the wettest month, with 83 mm of rain and snow on average. Summer highs average 23.5°C in July, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). Gardeners get 141 frost-free days, from 7 May to 25 September.

Visible minorities make up more of Bisset than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 57%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 6.6% of residents, above Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike. 13% of residents are 65 or over. Children under 15 count for 17% of the people here.

In Bisset, November normally means 1°C afternoons and −8°C nights

November usually brings some 20 cm of snow. December follows at −5°C by day and −13°C by night. A normal November brings 18 mm of rain and snow. The year peaks in July (24°C) and bottoms out in January (−15°C).

Edmonton Southeast, which takes in Bisset, is held by Jagsharan Singh Mahal (Conservative Party of Canada)

33 of the 37 MPs from Alberta belong to the Conservative Party of Canada.

The nearest public library to Bisset is Mill Woods Public Libary, 1.8 km away

The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Bisset among them.

Elk Island National Park is 30 km from Bisset

A provincial park, Big Island Provincial Park, lies 15 km away. The protected share within 10 km is 0.3%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%. Count 2 protected areas within 10 km of town. Sherwood Park Natural Area (69 ha) is the biggest, 7.3 km from town.