Kameyosek is a residential neighbourhood located in the
Mill Woods
Mill Woods is a residential area in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Located in southeast Edmonton, Mill Woods is bounded by Whitemud Drive ( Highway 14) to the north, 91 Street to the west, 34 Street to the east, and Anthony Henday ...
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Edmonton
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Alberta
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Canada
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. It is a part of the Mill Woods community of
Lakewood. The name means "the beautiful" in the Cree language."
The neighbourhood is bounded on the east by 66 Street, the north by 34 Avenue, the west by Mill Woods Road, and the south by 28 Avenue.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Kameyosek had a population of living in dwellings,
a 7.2% 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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Residential development
The majority of residential construction in the neighbourhood occurred during the 1970s when approximately two out of every three (67.8%) residences were constructed. Most of the remaining residences (24.3%) were constructed during the 1980s.
According to the 2005 municipal census, the neighbourhood has a mixture of housing types. Row house
In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house (British English, UK) or townhouse (American English, US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings party ...
s account for one out of every two (50%) of residences. single-family dwellings account for a further one in three (32%) of residences. Rented
Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for a ...
apartment
An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...
s in both low rise and high-rise buildings account for 16% while 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 ...
account for 1% of residences. Just over half of residences (53%) are owner-occupied with the remainder are rented
Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for a ...
.
Population
The average household size is 3.1 persons, according to the 2001 federal census, with a variety of household sizes. Two in five households (39.7%) consist of one or two people. One in three households (31.8%) have four or five persons, and one in five households (21.6%) have three persons.
The population in Kameyosek is relatively mobile. Almost one in seven (15.6%) of residents had moved within the previous year according to the 2005 municipal census. Another one in four (26.3%) had moved within the previous one to three years. Only two in five (41.6%) residents had lived at the same address for five or more years.
Shopping and services
Edmonton Public School System operates one school, Kameyosek Community School, in the neighbourhood.
MacEwan University
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's South Campus building operated in the neighbourhood until 2014 when the university decided to move all operations to its main downtown campus following the Alberta government's announcement of added funding for their Centre for the Arts and Communications. In 2017, the building was bought by Covenant Health (Alberta)
Covenant Health is a Catholic health care provider that serves the Canadian province of Alberta. It was established on October 7, 2008, by Patrick Dumelie, following the amalgamation of Alberta's regional Catholic health care providers under a si ...
.Edmonton Catholic School District
Edmonton Catholic Separate School District No. 7 or the Edmonton Catholic School District (ECSD) is the Catholic school board in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Size
The Edmonton Catholic School District currently operates 96 schools. There are a tot ...
, however the Millwoods campus was later relocated.Mill Woods Town Centre
Mill Woods Town Centre is a shopping centre located in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the neighbourhood of Mill Woods. It contains service and retail including North Central CO-OP and Shoppers Drug Mart. Some surrounding satellite stores are ...
shopping centre located to the south east in the neighbourhood of Millwoods Town Centre.
The Grey Nuns Community Hospital and a Fire Station are located immediately to the east in the neighbourhood Tawa, as is the Edmonton Police Service's South East Division Station.
Immediately to the south, in Mill Woods Park, is the Mill Woods Recreation Centre.
Surrounding neighbourhoods
References
External links
Kameyosek Neighbourhood Profile
{{Edmonton neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods in Edmonton