Britannia YoungstownEdmonton

Britannia Youngstown’s grade for hazard risk: an A+

Area-wide: earthquake risk, counted over the city of Edmonton

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). The national flood inventory has no study for Britannia Youngstown.

Rent takes more of local pay in Britannia Youngstown than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 32% of household income

Shared with the rest of the Edmonton metro area: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom

Owners put the median home at $300,000, below both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Trips to work from Britannia Youngstown are shorter than from Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 23 min on average

Driving is how 82% of commuters got to work at the census.

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

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). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 45 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed. For Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, the only official count covers all of the Edmonton service area, Britannia Youngstown included.

Schools in Britannia Youngstown: 5 boards, side by side

Taken together, Britannia Youngstown and its 3 km edge hold 26 elementary schools, 14 secondary schools and 13 schools for every grade for 21,217 students. The largest is Jasper Place School, with 3,123 students. On the tests, 16 of 40 schools land above the middle in Alberta, 16 under it. Schooling in French is on offer at 2 of 53; in Alberta, 2% of schools teach in it.

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

Measured from where Britannia Youngstown’s residents live, a hospital is 2.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.5 km on average, with 15 within 3 km of the typical home. Britannia Youngstown doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton Zone.

Britannia Youngstown is drier than nine in ten Canadian towns: 423 mm of rain and snow a year

Frosty days number 179 in a normal year, below Alberta’s towns (193) but above Canadian towns (159). For the wettest month, look to July: 83 mm on average. January is the snowiest month, with 26 cm on average. In July, daytime highs in Britannia Youngstown average 23.5°C.

More of Britannia Youngstown’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 11%

16% are under 15, below Alberta’s towns (18%) and close to Canadian towns (16%). Over-65s are 14% of the population.

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

Then December: −5°C by day, −13°C at night. In November, the normal is 18 mm of rain and snow. Snow is normal by November, about 20 cm over the month. Over the year, July is warmest at 24°C by day and January coldest at −15°C by night.

Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal Party of Canada) holds Edmonton Centre, the riding that includes Britannia Youngstown

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

No public library stands in Britannia Youngstown: the closest, Jasper Place Branch Library, is 2.4 km away

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

Elk Island National Park is 42 km from Britannia Youngstown

Within 10 km, 3.3% of the land is protected, higher than both Alberta’s towns (0.4%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 5.7 km. CPCAD lists 7 protected areas within 10 km.