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Mayliewan gets an A+ for hazard risk

Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. No one has filed a flood map for Mayliewan on the national inventory. Nobody publishes radon tests for Mayliewan alone, so this card uses the figure for the Capital Health. Mayliewan doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Edmonton.

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

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). The force’s area logs 45 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year. Behind Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 sits data gathered across the Edmonton service area, with Mayliewan one part of it.

Most schools around Mayliewan score below the middle in Alberta: 21 of 37

The largest is M. E. LaZerte School, with 2,499 students. Its schools answer to 3 boards. Elementary schools here average 409 students, against 274 in Alberta. Catholic schools make up 14 of 42, above the 18% in Alberta.

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

Shared with the rest of the Edmonton Zone: health survey and life expectancy

Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.6 km from the average resident of Mayliewan, about the norm of 3.7 km. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.8 km on average, with 10 within 3 km of the typical home.

Household incomes in Mayliewan top those of 96% of Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 25 min, near both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

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

The thermometer drops below freezing on 179 days a year, between Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). July is the wettest month, with 83 mm of rain and snow on average. Between the last spring frost, 7 May, and the first in autumn, 25 September, lie 141 days. Mayliewan sees July afternoons of 23.5°C on average.

More of Mayliewan belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 53%

15% of residents are children under 15. People 65 and over make up 18% of the town, between Alberta’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (19%).

What November brings in Mayliewan: −8°C at night, 1°C by day

Then December: −5°C by day, −13°C at night. In November, the normal is 18 mm of rain and snow. 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.

Mayliewan sends Kerry Diotte (Conservative Party of Canada) to the Commons from Edmonton Griesbach

No public library stands in Mayliewan: the closest, EPL Castle Downs Branch, is 3.5 km away

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

Mayliewan is 33 km from Elk Island National Park

12 km from town is Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park.

Mayliewan is a town of owners: 94% of households own their home, above 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 16% of household income, below Alberta’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 14% of households, below Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike.