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Sakaw gets an A+ for hazard risk

Radon is lower than usual: 1.4% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory for Sakaw. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Capital Health, with Sakaw one part of it.

Rent takes more of local pay in Sakaw than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 24% of household income

28% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). Owners put the median home at $344,000, below both Alberta’s towns ($400,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

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

Source area for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000: the Edmonton service area

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). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 45 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed.

Working-age people in Sakaw have jobs less often than in 78% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 27 min, above Alberta’s towns (26 min) and close to Canadian towns (26 min). Nine in ten commuters took the car to work at the census.

Schools in Sakaw: 3 boards, side by side

Of its 32 tested schools, 13 sit in the top two fifths in Alberta and 10 in the bottom two. The largest is J Percy Page School, with 1,264 students. Taken together, Sakaw and its 3 km edge hold 23 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 7 schools for every grade for 17,736 students.

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

Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Sakaw is well placed: 2.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. A pharmacy is nearer: 1.8 km on average, with 3.3 within 3 km of the typical home. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the Edmonton Zone, Sakaw included.

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

Frost comes on 179 days a year, below Alberta’s towns (193) but above Canadian towns (159). For the wettest month, look to July: 83 mm on average. The frost-free season runs from 7 May to 25 September, 141 days. A July afternoon in Sakaw typically reaches 23.5°C.

More of Sakaw belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 41%

Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over, about level with Canadian towns (19%) and above Alberta’s towns (15%). The share of residents under 15 is 18%.

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

Expect about 18 mm of rain and snow over November. Into December, the normals move to −5°C and −13°C. About 20 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Across the year, normals run from −15°C nights in January to 24°C afternoons in July.

Jagsharan Singh Mahal (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Sakaw in Ottawa as MP for Edmonton Southeast

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

No public library stands in Sakaw: the closest, Mill Woods Public Libary, is 1.5 km away

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

A national park 32 km from Sakaw: Elk Island National Park

9.2 km out lies the largest, Sherwood Park Natural Area, at 69 ha. The closest provincial park is Big Island Provincial Park, 13 km from the edge of town. 0.2% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). CPCAD lists 2 protected areas within 10 km.