Community
Demographics, labour, health, public safety, and emergency data across Alberta.
This section covers the human side of Alberta's economy — who lives here, where they come from, how healthy and safe their communities are, and the emergency infrastructure that supports them.
People pages track demographics, immigration, and employment. Safety pages cover crime, fire response, traffic, and emergency alerts — the non-economic factors that materially affect property values, insurance costs, and business operations.
People
Demographics
Population distribution, age structure, and growth trends across Alberta municipalities.
Statistics Canada, Alberta Regional Dashboard
Immigration
IRCC permanent residents by category, CMA, age, and occupation. Alberta's population engine.
IRCC, Statistics Canada
Labour Market
Employment, unemployment rate, participation rate, and average weekly earnings.
Statistics Canada LFS
Health
Life expectancy, births, deaths, and leading causes of mortality across Alberta.
Alberta Regional Dashboard, CKAN
Mortality
Leading causes of death by age group and sex. Provincial trend analysis.
Alberta CKAN
Safety
Crime & Safety
Crime Severity Index across 200+ jurisdictions plus Calgary community-level stats.
Alberta Regional Dashboard, Calgary Open Data
Fire Response
Edmonton fire/EMS incidents (927K+ records), active wildfires, and 511 alerts.
Edmonton Open Data, CWFIS, Alberta 511
Traffic & Roads
Real-time highway conditions, road closures, and traffic events across 31,000+ km.
Alberta 511
Seismic Activity
Earthquake data filtered to Alberta. Mostly induced seismicity from energy operations.
Natural Resources Canada
Emergencies
Real-time Alert Ready warnings: tornadoes, extreme cold, AMBER alerts, wildfire evacuations.
Alert Ready
Common terms in this section
- Crime Severity Index (CSI)
- — Combines volume and severity of police-reported crime. Canada's baseline is 100 (2006).
- LFS
- — Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada's monthly employment survey.
- Alert Ready
- — Canada's national emergency alerting system for imminent threats to life.
- Induced seismicity
- — Earthquakes caused by human activity, usually hydraulic fracturing or wastewater injection.