Pacific HeightsSaskatoon

Pacific Heights earns an A for hazard risk

Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Pacific Heights is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Little of the land around Pacific Heights has burned: 0.3% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.008% a year. For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Saskatoon, Pacific Heights included.

Pacific Heights earns a C− for safety

Shared with the rest of the Saskatoon service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 119 over 2023–25, about level with Saskatchewan’s towns (119) and above Canadian towns (67). Property crime in the area its police cover: 48.4 per 1,000 people a year. Where it is policed, 15.2 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year.

49% of adults around Pacific Heights rate their health very good or excellent

Measured across the Saskatoon health region: health survey and life expectancy

Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.1 km from the average resident of Pacific Heights, about the norm of 3.7 km. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 8.3% of adults, against 13% for Saskatchewan. Across the region, life runs to 81.4 years on average: women 83.4, men 79.2, in 2022/2024.

Pacific Heights’ household incomes are higher than in 78% of Canadian towns

Workers spend 21 min getting to work, on average.

Most households in Pacific Heights own their home: 82%, more than in Saskatchewan’s towns or across Canadian towns

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Saskatoon metro area

13% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than both Saskatchewan’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 20% of the median household income, higher than Saskatchewan’s towns (19%) and near Canadian towns (20%).

Few Canadian towns get less rain and snow than Pacific Heights: 357 mm a year

There are 203 days of frost in a typical year, close to Saskatchewan’s towns (203) and above Canadian towns (159). The most precipitation falls in June: 75 mm in a normal year. Between the last spring frost, 19 May, and the first in autumn, 15 September, lie 117 days. On a January night, the temperature in Pacific Heights falls to about −20.7°C.

More of Pacific Heights’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Saskatchewan’s towns or Canadian towns: 19%

14% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Saskatchewan’s towns (16%) and Canadian towns (19%). Children are 22% of the town.

In Pacific Heights, November normally means −1°C afternoons and −10°C nights

By December, a normal day reaches −8°C and a night falls to −18°C. Expect about 14 mm of rain and snow over November. About 13 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Across the year, normals run from −21°C nights in January to 25°C afternoons in July.

Only 56% of electors voted in Saskatoon West in 2021, fewer than in 85% of Canada’s ridings

For federal votes, Pacific Heights belongs to Saskatoon West, its riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP); Brad Redekopp (Conservative Party of Canada) holds it.

No public library stands in Pacific Heights: the closest, Mayfair Public Library, is 2.6 km away

The next is Library 20th st (Westmount), 3.6 km away.

From Pacific Heights, Fred Heal Canoe Launch is the nearest provincial park (16 km)

1% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). No national park lies within 100 km. Count 15 protected areas within 10 km of town. The largest is Sutherland Migratory Bird Sanctuary: 130 ha, 9.7 km from the edge of town.

In and around Pacific Heights, 29 schools: 24 elementary schools and 5 secondary schools

Counting each board with a school within 3 km gives 2, about level with Saskatchewan’s towns (2) and below Canadian towns (3).