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Overlanders’s grade for hazard risk: an A+

Measured across the Capital Health: radon tests

In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Government of Alberta. Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030.

Renting in Overlanders eats 26% of household income, more than in Alberta’s towns and across Canadian towns

The rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers here cover the Edmonton metro area

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 35% of households, above Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. The median home value was $348,000, lower than both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Overlanders has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 95% of Canadian towns

83% of commuters took the car to work at the census. The average trip to work took 27 min, above both Alberta’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

17 of Overlanders’s 23 tested schools score in the lower two fifths in Alberta

Schooling here is split between 2 boards, below Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3) alike. Catholic schools make up 8 of 24, above the 18% in Alberta. Within 3 km of Overlanders are 17 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade, teaching 8,679 students.

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

The index for the force that serves it came to 110, close to Alberta’s towns (110) and above Canadian towns (67). Across its police area, there are 45 property incidents 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 Overlanders one part of it.

Around Overlanders, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent

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

People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. For Overlanders itself the measure is access: 3.0 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 1.2 km away on average and 14 of them within 3 km of a typical home.

Precipitation in Overlanders trails that of 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year

Midsummer afternoons in Overlanders peak at about 23.5°C. Between the last spring frost, 7 May, and the first in autumn, 25 September, lie 141 days. For the wettest month, look to July: 83 mm on average. A normal January brings 26 cm of snow, the most of any month.

More of Overlanders’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 16%

Visible minorities make up 34% of the population, higher than both Alberta’s towns (29%) and Canadian towns (15%).

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

By December, a normal day reaches −5°C and a night falls to −13°C. Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November. About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Over the year, July is warmest at 24°C by day and January coldest at −15°C by night.

Only 55% of electors voted in Edmonton Manning in 2021, fewer than in 87% of Canada’s ridings

Federally, Overlanders sits in Edmonton Manning, its riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP), held by Ziad Aboultaif of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Overlanders has no public library of its own; the nearest is Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee, 1.3 km away

Overlanders is served by Edmonton Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people.

Elk Island National Park lies 28 km beyond Overlanders’ edge

17 km from town is Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. There is one protected area within 10 km. OpenStreetMap shows one walking route nearby, the Amisk Wacîw Mêskanaw.