Sifton Park is a residential neighbourhood in the Clareview area of north east
Edmonton
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Alberta
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Canada
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. The neighbourhood was named for
Arthur Sifton
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, who served as the second
premier of Alberta
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The premi ...
from 1910 until 1917.
The neighbourhood is bounded on the north by 137 Avenue, on the west by 50 Street, and on the east by 40 Street. To the south the neighbourhood backs onto Kennedale Ravine.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Sifton Park had a population of living in dwellings,
a -3.2% 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
According to the 2001 federal census, four out of five (78.8%) of all residences were constructed during the 1970s. Most of the remaining residences were built during the 1960s (8.8%) and the early 1980s (10%).
The most common type of residence in the neighbourhood, according to the 2005 municipal census, is the rented apartment
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. Apartments in low-rise buildings with fewer than five stories account for just under half (47%) of all residences in the neighbourhood. Single-family dwellings account for another one residence in three (32%). One in ten residences (10%) are row house
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s and one in ten residences (9%) are duplexes. A small number of residences (3%) are classified as other kinds of residence. Three out of five residences (59%) are rented and only two out of every five residences are owner-occupied.
The population of the neighbourhood is fairly mobile. According to the 2005 municipal census, one resident in four (26.3%) had moved within the previous twelve months. Another one resident in four (23.4%) had moved within the previous one to three years. Only two out of every five residents (37.2%) had lived at the same address for five years or longer.LRT
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station is located just to the north of Sifton Park in the adjoining neighbourhood of Clareview Town Centre.
Surrounding neighbourhoods
References
External links
Sifton Park Neighbourhood Profile
{{Edmonton neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods in Edmonton