Bergman is a neighbourhood in east
Edmonton
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located immediately to the north of the
Town of Beverly townsite. The neighbourhood is named for
Gustav C. Bergman who was elected mayor of Beverly in the first municipal election after Beverly incorporated as a town in
1914
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The neighbourhood is bounded on the south by 122 Avenue, on the north by the Yellowhead Trail, on the west by 50 Street, and on the east by 34 Street.
Bergman shares a community league with the neighbourhood of Beacon Heights to the south.
Most of the residential construction, approximately four out of five dwellings, dates from after the amalgamation of the Town of Beverly with Edmonton in 1961. The neighbourhood showed a particularly rapid period of growth in the late 1980s, when one out of three dwellings were built. While most of the homes in the neighbourhood are
single-family dwellings, there are some
duplexes
A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or above each other like apartments. By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is ...
as well. Just over 95% of the dwelling units in Bergman are owner occupied.
[http://censusdocs.edmonton.ca/DD34/MultiSource/Neighbourhood/BERGMAN.pdf ]
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Bergman had a population of living in dwellings,
a 1.5% change from its 2009 population of .
With a land area of , it had a population density of people/km
2 in 2012.
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Surrounding neighbourhoods
Further reading
* Herzog, Lawrence, "Built on Coal, A History of Beverly, Edmonton's Working Class Town", Beverly Community Development Society, 2000, Edmonton, Alberta
References
External links
City of Edmonton neighbourhood profile
{{Edmonton neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods in Edmonton