Eaux ClairesEdmonton

Eaux Claires is graded an A+ for hazard risk

Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Capital Health

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. The national flood inventory has no study for Eaux Claires. Eaux Claires shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Edmonton.

Violent crime weighs more where Eaux Claires 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

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 110 over 2023–25, about level with 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.

Measured against local pay, Eaux Claires costs more to live in than 79% of Canadian towns

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 24% of households, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 78%.

5 boards run the schools in and around Eaux Claires

Catholic schools make up 17 of 48, above the 18% in Alberta. Of the 42 with results, 25 sit in the lower two fifths in Alberta. M. E. LaZerte School is the biggest, at 2,499 students. In or within 3 km of Eaux Claires: 32 elementary schools, 12 secondary schools and 4 schools for every grade, with 24,472 students.

Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Eaux Claires’ health region

Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.6, men 78.8, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Eaux Claires’ is long: 4.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.3 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 Eaux Claires, less than on 90% of Canadian towns

July afternoons reach 23.5°C on average, close to Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). The most precipitation falls in July: 83 mm in a normal year. Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year. Between the last spring frost, 7 May, and the first in autumn, 25 September, lie 141 days.

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Eaux Claires trails that of 75% of Canadian towns

At the census, 86% of commuters went by car. Commutes averaged 25 min, near both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

Visible minorities make up more of Eaux Claires than of Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 60%

14% are under 15, lower than both Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for 20% of residents.

Eaux Claires in November: highs near 1°C, lows near −8°C

Normal highs peak at 24°C in July; nights bottom out at −15°C in January. Snow is normal by November, about 20 cm over the month. Then December: −5°C by day, −13°C at night. November normally sees 18 mm of precipitation.

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

The Conservative Party of Canada has 33 of the 37 MPs elected in Alberta.

The nearest public library to Eaux Claires is EPL Castle Downs Branch, 1.9 km away

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

Elk Island National Park lies 34 km beyond Eaux Claires’ edge

Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 10 km.