Gold BarEdmonton

Gold Bar is graded an A+ for hazard risk

Measured across the city of Edmonton: earthquake risk

Of the homes tested for radon, 1.4% were over 200 Bq/m³, below Alberta’s towns (7.5%) and Canadian towns (6.6%) alike. The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Government of Alberta. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical).

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

Shared with the rest of 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.

Commuters in Gold Bar have a short way to work, 22 min on average, less than in Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

86% of commuters drove to work at the census.

Home ownership in Gold Bar, 67%, runs below Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

Rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom for the Edmonton metro area

Rent took 19% of household income, below Alberta’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike. Owners put the median home at $400,000, about level with both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

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

For Gold Bar itself the measure is access: 4.0 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.8 km away on average and 12 of them within 3 km of a typical home. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the Edmonton Zone, Gold Bar included.

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

A normal January brings 26 cm of snow, the most of any month. The most precipitation falls in July: 83 mm in a normal year. In July the thermometer climbs to 23.5°C by day, near Alberta’s towns (23.5°C) and lower than Canadian towns (25.5°C). Between the last spring frost, 7 May, and the first in autumn, 25 September, lie 141 days.

More of Gold Bar’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 8%

11% of residents belong to a visible minority, below both Alberta’s towns (29%) and Canadian towns (15%). People 65 and over make up 16% of the town. Children under 15 count for 18% of the people here.

Expect November days around 1°C in Gold Bar, nights around −8°C

Normal highs peak at 24°C in July; nights bottom out at −15°C in January. Then December: −5°C by day, −13°C at night. About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November.

At 69%, 2021 turnout in Edmonton Strathcona beat 91% of the country’s ridings

As a neighbourhood of Edmonton, Gold Bar answers to the city council and its mayor, Andrew Knack.

Gold Bar has no public library of its own; the nearest is Edmonton Public Library, Capilano, 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, Gold Bar among them.

Gold Bar is 29 km from Elk Island National Park

One named trail is close: the Amisk Wacîw Mêskanaw. 16 km from town is Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. For a swim, Accidental Beach is the beach within 5 km.

4 boards run the schools in and around Gold Bar

2 of the 40 teach in French, against 2% of schools in Alberta. Argyll Home School Centre is the biggest, at 2,176 students. Of its 30 tested schools, 9 sit in the top two fifths in Alberta and 16 in the bottom two. In or within 3 km of Gold Bar: 19 elementary schools, 13 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade, with 17,763 students.

In Gold Bar, 65% of homes go back before 1961