Fairfield ParkWinnipeg

More households are stretched by shelter costs in Fairfield Park: 34% spend 30%+ of income, against 18% in the typical Canadian town

The median home value was $500,000, higher than both Manitoba’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). 70% of households own their home.

For safety, Fairfield Park gets a D

Measured across the Winnipeg service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

The violent index for its police area came to 198, close to Manitoba’s towns (198) and above Canadian towns (86). Across its police area, there are 58.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 18 violent incidents are reported each year.

Working-age people in Fairfield Park are less likely to have a job than in 85% of Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 28 min, above Manitoba’s towns (24 min) and Canadian towns (26 min) alike. 87% of commuters took the car to work at the census.

Hazards in Fairfield Park: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes

Source area for radon tests: the Winnipeg health region

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No flood study for Fairfield Park is on the national inventory.

People in Fairfield Park’s health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town

The region has fewer smokers than Manitoba, one in ten adults to 12%. Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 52% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.5 km from the average resident of Fairfield Park, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region, Fairfield Park included.

Fairfield Park has colder winter nights than 95% of Canadian towns

The thermometer drops below freezing on 193 days a year, near Manitoba’s towns (193) and higher than Canadian towns (159). Frost usually lifts by 23 May and returns around 22 September: 122 days without it. A normal December brings 27 cm of snow, the most of any month. Rain and snow peak in July, at 77 mm.

More of Fairfield Park belongs to a visible minority than Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 69%

2.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity, about level with Canadian towns (2.8%) and below Manitoba’s towns (12%).

In Fairfield Park, November normally means freezing afternoons and −9°C nights

Across the year, normals run from −21°C nights in January to 26°C afternoons in July. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near −8°C and lows near −17°C. In November, the normal is 25 mm of rain and snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Winnipeg (The Forks) forecast, on the Weather page.

Winnipeg South, which takes in Fairfield Park, is held by Terry Duguid (Liberal Party of Canada)

The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba’s boundary file has no licence page we could read, so this page doesn’t place Fairfield Park in a riding.

Fairfield Park has no public library of its own; the nearest is Pembina Trail Library, 0.8 km away

After it comes Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library (Normand Park), 2.6 km away.

From Fairfield Park, Beaudry Provincial Park is the nearest provincial park (21 km)

OpenStreetMap shows one beach within 5 km, without a name. Biggest among them: Assiniboine Forest, 286 ha, 6.5 km off. Within 100 km there is no national park.

Fairfield Park’s schools come under 10 different boards

One of the 20 teaches in French, against 3% of schools in Manitoba. Counting a 3 km margin, Fairfield Park has 14 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade.

100% of Fairfield Park’s homes date from 1961 or later