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For hazard risk, Greenfield gets an A+

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

In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No one has filed a flood map for Greenfield on the national inventory. Greenfield doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Edmonton.

18 of Greenfield’s 32 tested schools score in the top fifth in Alberta

Within 3 km, 2 boards share the schools, below both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). The largest is Harry Ainlay School, with 2,745 students. The 3 km around Greenfield counts 25 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 6 schools for every grade, 20,475 students between them.

The force covering Greenfield records more serious violence than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns, at 128

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.

Greenfield has higher household incomes than 97% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 26 min, in line with Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min). Nearly nine in ten commuters drove, about level with both Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Greenfield’s health region

Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Greenfield is well placed: 1.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.7 km on average, with 13 within 3 km of the typical home.

Renting in Greenfield costs 15% of household income, less than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

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

83% of households own their home. Shelter took 30% or more of income for just over one in ten households, below both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).

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

A July afternoon in Greenfield typically reaches 23.5°C. Frost usually lifts by 7 May and returns around 25 September: 141 days without it. A normal July brings 83 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. The thermometer drops below freezing on 179 days a year, below Alberta’s towns (193) but above Canadian towns (159).

Greenfield skews older, with 21% of residents 65 or over, more than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

Visible minorities make up 20% of the population, between Alberta’s towns (29%) and Canadian towns (15%). Children under 15 count for 17% of the people here.

In Greenfield, November normally means 1°C afternoons and −8°C nights

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Edmonton forecast, on the Weather page. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near −5°C and lows near −13°C. About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November.

Matt Jeneroux (Liberal Party of Canada) represents Greenfield in Ottawa as MP for Edmonton Riverbend

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

Greenfield has no public library of its own; the nearest is Whitemud Crossing Library EPL, 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, Greenfield among them.

Elk Island National Park lies 37 km beyond Greenfield’s edge

0.3% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). The closest provincial park is Big Island Provincial Park, 7.0 km from the edge of town. 2 protected areas lie within 10 km.