TamarackEdmonton

For hazard risk, Tamarack gets an A+

Radon topped the guideline in 1.4% of tested homes, below Alberta’s towns (7.5%) and Canadian towns (6.6%) alike. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. The national flood inventory has no study for Tamarack.

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

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for 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.

Mixed results around Tamarack: 8 high and 4 low of 17 schools in Alberta

Taken together, Tamarack and its 3 km edge hold 12 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade for 10,539 students. The largest is Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School, with 1,394 students. The schools around it answer to 2 boards, lower than both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3).

Household incomes in Tamarack are higher than in 94% of Canadian towns

Getting to work takes 27 min on average. The car took 88% of commuters, in line with Alberta’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

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

The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Tamarack live 4.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.6 for a girl and 78.8 for a boy (2022/2024). Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.6 km away on average and 5.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the Edmonton Zone, Tamarack included.

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

The most precipitation falls in July: 83 mm in a normal year. Frost comes on 179 days a year, between Alberta’s towns (193) and Canadian towns (159). A normal January brings 26 cm of snow, the most of any month. The frost-free season runs from 7 May to 25 September, 141 days.

More of Tamarack belongs to a visible minority than Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 75%

2.5% of residents have an Indigenous identity, lower than both Alberta’s towns (4.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Tamarack in November: highs near 1°C, lows near −8°C

Snowfall in a normal November: 20 cm. Next comes December, with normal highs of −5°C and lows of −13°C. November normally sees 18 mm of precipitation. At the extremes, July afternoons reach 24°C and January nights −15°C.

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

No provincial riding is named for Tamarack: the only boundary file for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta forbids commercial reuse.

Tamarack has no public library of its own; the nearest is Meadows Library, 1.6 km away

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

Within 27 km of Tamarack: Elk Island National Park

Protected areas cover 0.2% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. Big Island Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 18 km. Close by: one protected area. Biggest among them: Sherwood Park Natural Area, 69 ha, 4.2 km off.

In Tamarack, a home and getting around cost 35% of the median household’s income; the typical Canadian town spends 29%

A quarter of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 17% of the median household income, below Alberta’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike.