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Crawford Plains earns an A+ for hazard risk

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Capital Health · Source area for earthquake risk: the city of Edmonton

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). Also worth knowing: the national flood inventory has no study for Crawford Plains.

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

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for 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). Property crime in the area its police cover: 45 per 1,000 people a year.

Crawford Plains’s schools come under 3 different boards

The 27 with results split, 10 in the upper two fifths in Alberta and 8 in the lower. Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School is the biggest, at 1,394 students. In or within 3 km of Crawford Plains: 21 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 5 schools for every grade, with 16,218 students.

51% of adults around Crawford Plains rate their health very good or excellent

Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Measured from where Crawford Plains’ residents live, a hospital is 2.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 1.6 km away on average (3.2 within 3 km). Crawford Plains doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton Zone.

Household incomes in Crawford Plains top those of 87% of Canadian towns

A trip to work takes 27 min on average.

In Crawford Plains, a home and getting around cost 36% of the median household’s income; the typical Canadian town spends 29%

Shelter took 30% or more of income for nearly a fifth of households, between Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). Just over three quarters of households are owner-occupiers.

Precipitation in Crawford Plains trails that of 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year

Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year. Rain and snow peak in July, at 83 mm. July afternoons reach 23.5°C on average, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). Frost usually lifts by 7 May and returns around 25 September: 141 days without it.

Visible minorities make up more of Crawford Plains than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 44%

5.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity, above Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

Expect November days around 1°C in Crawford Plains, nights around −8°C

Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November. Into December, the normals move to −5°C and −13°C. Snow is normal by November, about 20 cm over the month. Normal highs peak at 24°C in July; nights bottom out at −15°C in January.

Crawford Plains sends Jagsharan Singh Mahal (Conservative Party of Canada) to the Commons from Edmonton Southeast

Across Alberta, 33 of the 37 MPs sit with the Conservative Party of Canada.

Crawford Plains has no public library of its own; the nearest is Mill Woods Public Libary, 2.3 km away

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

Crawford Plains is 30 km from Elk Island National Park

The 10 km around town hold 2 protected areas. 14 km from town is Big Island Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0.3% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. Within 5 km lie 4 beaches, unnamed on the map.