Pollard MeadowsEdmonton

Pollard Meadows earns an A+ for hazard risk

Shared with the rest of 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). Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. No one has filed a flood map for Pollard Meadows on the national inventory.

Working-age people in Pollard Meadows are less likely to have a job than in 90% of Canadian towns

Getting to work takes 28 min on average. The car took 85% of commuters, near Alberta’s towns (88%) and lower than Canadian towns (89%).

Measured against local pay, Pollard Meadows costs more to live in than four in five Canadian towns

Owners put the median home at $310,000, below both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). 28% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Violent crime weighs more where Pollard Meadows 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, near Alberta’s towns (110) and higher than Canadian towns (67). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 45 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed. Nobody publishes Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for Pollard Meadows alone, so this card uses the figure for the Edmonton service area.

Pollard Meadows’s schools come under 3 different boards

In or within 3 km of Pollard Meadows: 28 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 5 schools for every grade, with 18,895 students. Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School is the biggest, at 1,394 students. The 36 with results split, 13 in the upper two fifths in Alberta and 12 in the lower.

Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Pollard Meadows’ health region

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Edmonton Zone

For Pollard Meadows itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 18% of the region’s adults on average, in line with Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (17%).

Dry weather: only 423 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Pollard Meadows, less than on 90% of Canadian towns

Frost comes on 179 days a year, below Alberta’s towns (193) but above Canadian towns (159). The most precipitation falls in July: 83 mm in a normal year. Between the last spring frost, 7 May, and the first in autumn, 25 September, lie 141 days. Expect July highs of around 23.5°C in Pollard Meadows.

More of Pollard Meadows belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 57%

20% are under 15, above Alberta’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (16%) alike. People 65 and over make up 13% of the town.

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

Snow is normal by November, about 20 cm over the month. By December, a normal day reaches −5°C and a night falls to −13°C. November normally sees 18 mm of precipitation. Normal highs peak at 24°C in July; nights bottom out at −15°C in January.

Edmonton Southeast, which takes in Pollard Meadows, is held by Jagsharan Singh Mahal (Conservative Party of Canada)

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

The nearest public library to Pollard Meadows is Mill Woods Public Libary, 1.2 km away

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

Elk Island National Park lies 31 km beyond Pollard Meadows’ edge

2 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Big Island Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 14 km. Of the country within 10 km, 0.3% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. Biggest among them: Sherwood Park Natural Area, 69 ha, 8.2 km off.