Best Edmonton neighbourhoods for a Growing Family

Where does a household with young children get schools, parks and low daily-life risk? 199 of 284 Edmonton neighbourhoods qualify, top 25 shown. Updated 2026.

How this ranking is built
Requirements
  • Not in the city's bottom fifth for school access

School access is treated as a requirement: a neighbourhood in the city's bottom fifth for school reach is excluded, because the premise of this page is children.

199 of 284 neighbourhoods qualify, 85 excluded.

Then ranked on
safety25%school access20%recreation access15%trail access10%grocery access10%quiet10%climate10%

These weights are our judgment about what this situation usually calls for, not a fact about the city. They are published here so you can disagree with them.

1
Cloverdale
100 school access63 safety100 recreation access
83
2
McKernan
97 school access62 safety91 recreation access

Trade-off: quiet at 27 out of 100.

77
3
Rossdale
95 school access65 safety97 recreation access

Trade-off: quiet at 26 out of 100.

77
4
Parkallen
99 school access95 recreation access51 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 42 out of 100.

75
5
Queen Alexandra
97 school access96 recreation access46 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 26 out of 100.

75
6
Riverdale
66 safety80 school access89 recreation access
75
7
Strathcona
89 school access95 recreation access53 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 25 out of 100.

74
8
Windsor Park
79 school access55 safety85 recreation access
74
9
Allendale
97 school access88 recreation access46 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 33 out of 100.

72
10
Downtown
92 school access95 recreation access53 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 1 out of 100.

72
11
Garneau
98 school access96 recreation access45 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 0 out of 100.

72
12
Lendrum Place
98 school access94 recreation access48 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 39 out of 100.

72
13
Grandview Heights
91 school access61 safety97 trail access

Trade-off: grocery access at 0 out of 100.

70
14
Griesbach
84 school access61 safety83 recreation access

Trade-off: quiet at 46 out of 100.

70
15
McCauley
81 school access52 safety86 recreation access

Trade-off: quiet at 9 out of 100.

70
16
Wîhkwêntôwin
88 school access91 recreation access53 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 0 out of 100.

70
17
Belgravia
92 school access58 safety72 recreation access

Trade-off: grocery access at 12 out of 100.

69
18
Ekota
69 safety75 school access87 climate
69
19
Greenfield
69 safety76 school access81 recreation access

Trade-off: grocery access at 19 out of 100.

69
20
Hillview
66 safety73 school access66 recreation access
69
21
River Valley Kinnaird
58 safety89 recreation access52 school access
69
22
Blatchford Area
96 school access99 recreation access49 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 0 out of 100.

68
23
Central McDougall
78 school access90 recreation access51 safety

Trade-off: quiet at 0 out of 100.

68
24
Kameyosek
65 safety80 school access67 recreation access
68
25
Ritchie
70 school access55 safety74 recreation access

Trade-off: quiet at 48 out of 100.

68

Frequently asked

What is the best Edmonton neighbourhood for a Growing Family?
On this ranking, Cloverdale leads at 83 out of 100, driven by school access, safety, recreation access. McKernan and Rossdale follow. There is no single best neighbourhood: this is the ranking that falls out of the priorities published above, and different priorities give a different order.
How is the Growing Family ranking calculated?
First, 284 Edmonton neighbourhoods are filtered against a requirement: not in the city's bottom fifth for school access. 84 were excluded on that basis. The remainder are scored on a weighted blend of safety 25%, school access 20%, recreation access 15%, trail access 10%, grocery access 10%, quiet 10%, climate 10%, using population-weighted dissemination-area data. The weighting is our editorial judgment about what this situation usually calls for, published here so you can disagree with it and re-rank on your own priorities.
What data is missing from this ranking?
Scores are computed only where the underlying data exists. A factor with no data for a neighbourhood is dropped from that neighbourhood's average rather than scored as zero, and each row states which factors were unavailable. Neighbourhoods with data for less than half their weighted factors are not ranked at all.
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