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Glenwood’s grade for hazard risk: an A+

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

Radon is lower than usual: 1.4% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. The national flood inventory has no study for Glenwood.

Renting in Glenwood eats 29% of household income, more than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

Nearly a third of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). The median home value was $344,000, below Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike. Glenwood doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton metro area.

The schools around Glenwood answer to 5 boards

The 42 with results split, 18 in the upper two fifths in Alberta and 15 in the lower. Jasper Place School is the biggest, at 3,123 students. 20,037 students attend the 28 elementary schools, 12 secondary schools and 14 schools for every grade in or within 3 km of Glenwood. Of the 54, 2 teach in French (2% of schools in Alberta).

Violent crime weighs more where Glenwood 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, near Alberta’s towns (110) and higher than Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 45 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year.

Glenwood has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 82% of Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 23 min, below both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min). At the census, just over four in five commuters went by car.

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

For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Glenwood is well placed: 1.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.4 km away on average and 18 of them within 3 km of a typical home.

Glenwood is drier than 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm of rain and snow a year

The warmest stretch brings July afternoons of 23.5°C, about level with Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and below Canadian towns (25.5°C). A normal July brings 83 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. The frost-free season runs from 7 May to 25 September, 141 days. Snow peaks in January: 26 cm in a normal year.

Fewer children live in Glenwood than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 13% are under 15

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 8.4% of residents, higher than both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Those 65 and older account for 23% of residents.

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

At the extremes, July afternoons reach 24°C and January nights −15°C. A normal December brings highs of −5°C, lows of −13°C. Snowfall in a normal November: 20 cm. Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November.

Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal Party of Canada) represents Glenwood in Ottawa as MP for Edmonton Centre

From Alberta come 37 MPs, 33 of them with the Conservative Party of Canada.

No public library stands in Glenwood: the closest, Jasper Place Branch Library, is 1.4 km away

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

Elk Island National Park is 42 km from Glenwood

The nearest provincial park, Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, is 7.1 km away. 7 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Of the land within 10 km, 2.6% has protected status, above both Alberta’s towns (0.4%) and Canadian towns (2.3%).