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Edmonton Neighbourhood Profile

Britannia Youngstown

Britannia Youngstown is an Edmonton neighbourhood of about 1,481 homes — 61.4% houses and 38.6% condos, most homes built around 1959. The typical (median) house is assessed at $335,500, 25% below the citywide median (243rd of 277 neighbourhoods); condos around $95,000. Across its established houses — largely the same properties over time — the median assessed value changed +22% from 2012 to 2025. 40% of homes are owner-occupied, median household income is $59,200, and 3 public schools are designated for it. Figures throughout are City assessed values — directional and comparative, not exact sale prices ("typical" means the median).

Total homes

1,481

61.4% houses · 38.6% condos

Typical house

$335,500

25% below citywide · 243rd of 277

Typical condo

$95,000

49% below citywide

House $/sq ft

$323

$3,477/m² · 6% above citywide

Condo $/sq ft

$132

$1,421/m² · 30% below citywide

Typical lot

6,448 ft²

599 m² · 20% above citywide

Typical age

1959

median house build year

Where it is

At a glance.Britannia Youngstown's location and boundary, with schools marked — green areas are parks and open space.

Map of Britannia Youngstown, Edmonton — neighbourhood boundary, 2 schools, parks and surrounding streets.
Neighbourhood boundary outlined in sand; schools pinned in teal. Schools shown are those inside the boundary, plus designated schools that fall inside this view. Map data © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap.

The homes

What's built here — the housing stock, its age, and the condo & rental supply.

What's here

Mostly houses. 61.4% houses (freehold) · 38.6% condos (condominium-titled).

Houses 61.4% Condos 38.6%
Building types in detail
Detached36%
Semi-detached6%
Row house (townhouse)7%
Apartment in a duplex4%
Apartment (low-rise)47%

Bedrooms — homes here by bedroom count:

Studio (no bedroom)1%
1 bedroom31%
2 bedrooms25%
3 bedrooms24%
4+ bedrooms19%

9% of homes needed major repairs in 2021, as assessed by their own residents.

Building-type, bedroom and condition figures from the 2021 federal census.

When it was built

Most homes here were built before 1960. The median build year is 1959.

Full age breakdown
pre-1960594
1960s121
1970s59
1980s10
1990s18
2000s13
2010s54
2020s24

Condos & multi-family

46 condo developments here — about 572 condo dwellings, plus 45 purpose-built rental / multi-family buildings.

How condos & rentals are counted

46 condo developments, the largest around 110 units — about 572 condo dwellings in total. Separately-titled parking and storage stalls aren't counted as homes.

45 rental / multi-family buildings, typically built around 198016 small (under $1M), 28 mid ($1–10M), 1 large (over $10M). Purpose-built rentals (assessed as a single parcel each), separate from the owned homes counted above. Unit counts aren't in the open data.

Living here

The people and the day-to-day — who lives here, and the schools, shops, parks and transit around them.

Who lives here

Mostly renters. Median household income $59,200.

Resident snapshot from the 2021 federal census.

Median household income

$59,200

22% earn $100k+

Homeowners

40%

60% rent

Bachelor's degree or higher

15%

of residents 15+

Commute to work

83%

drive · 9% transit · 6% walk/bike

Median age 40.4; 43% of households are people living alone; 43% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Residents by age

Median age 40.4.

0–1415%
15–2412%
25–4429%
45–6430%
65+14%
Household income spread
Under $50k42%
$50k–$100k36%
$100k–$150k14%
$150k–$200k4%
$200k+5%

5% of households reported $200k or more; 42% under $50k.

Government transfers made up 27.8% of residents' 2020 income (including 9.1% pandemic supports — 2020 was a COVID income year); 17.3% of residents were below the low-income measure (LIM-AT).

Household total income, 2020, from the 2021 federal census (income shares and low-income prevalence as reported). Statistics Canada rounds and suppresses small counts, so shares may not sum exactly to 100.

Households & families
Couples with kids at home18%
Couples without kids at home16%
One-parent families8%
Living alone43%
Multigenerational1%
Other shared households13%

Average household size 2.1; families with kids at home average 1.6 children.

What residents do for work

Occupation groups (share of the labour force):

Sales & service30%
Trades, transport & equipment operators24%
Business, finance & administration14%
Health9%
Natural & applied sciences8%
Education, law, social & government7%
Manufacturing & utilities4%
Art, culture, recreation & sport2%
Natural resources & agriculture1%

Industries residents work in (top 10; the rest combined):

Retail trade15%
Health care & social assistance15%
Construction10%
Wholesale trade9%
Accommodation & food services8%
Manufacturing6%
Transportation & warehousing5%
Professional, scientific & technical5%
Administrative & support services5%
Public administration5%
All other sectors combined17%

Unemployment rate in the census reference week (May 2021): 13.8% — a pandemic-period snapshot.

How long people stay

15% of residents had moved within the previous year; 43% lived at a different address five years earlier.

Counts every change of address — moves within Britannia Youngstown, into it, owners and renters alike.

Housing costs & affordability

A household earning the local median income would put about 32% of it toward typical owner shelter costs here — or 19% toward the typical rent.

Typical owner shelter cost

$1,600/mo

63.3% of owners hold a mortgage

Typical rent

$930/mo

median tenant shelter cost

Affordability in detail

Households spending 30% or more of their own income on their own shelter — the standard affordability-stress measure: 16.3% of owner households · 43.9% of renter households. (Different from the headline above, which compares the median cost against the median income — a typical-household what-if, not a count of stretched households.)

In core housing need (unaffordable, unsuitable or inadequate, with no affordable local alternative): 5.5% of owners · 38.8% of renters.

Owners' own estimate of their home's value (2021): $320,000 median — self-reported, so it can differ from the assessed medians above.

Owner costs reflect current owners — including long-time, mortgage-free ones — not the cost to buy in today. The income-share figures compare 2020 median household income with shelter costs reported in 2021.

Schools

3 designated public schools. Edmonton Public catchment for Britannia Youngstown: Youngstown, Britannia and Ross Sheppard.

All schools, levels & catchment notes

Designated public schools (Edmonton Public Schools catchment for Britannia Youngstown):

Catchments are set by the school board and can change — and the City's published catchment data can lag new schools and boundary updates — so confirm the current designated school with Edmonton Public Schools before relying on it.

Schools located in Britannia Youngstown:

Independent / private schools aren't in the City's open data, so they aren't listed here. School-quality ratings are published separately by the Fraser Institute (not affiliated with this site).

Shopping & amenities

About 188 businesses in Britannia Youngstown, employing roughly 2,553 people.

Business mix & how this is counted

From the City's business census (2025 survey).

The mix of what's here, from currently-licensed businesses:

Food & dining21
Shops & retail50
Personal & health services28
Recreation & fitness2
Professional & office24
Trades, auto & industrial40
Other12
Everyday amenities Other businesses

Counts come from City of Edmonton business licences and the City's business census — a licence means a business is registered at an address here, not a guarantee it's open today , and includes home-based businesses (about 25% of licences here). Landlord rental licences are excluded, and a listing isn't an endorsement.

Parks & green space

8 parks (9.5 hectares) and 3 playgrounds in Britannia Youngstown.

Parks

8

9.5 hectares total

Playgrounds

3

Green-space types & notes

Types of green space:

  • Pocket park4
  • School & community park3
  • Urban village park1

Counts come from the City of Edmonton's parks and playgrounds open data. A park is attributed to the neighbourhood its centre point falls in, so a large park or greenway that spans several areas is counted once — treat boundaries as approximate. Trail corridors appear here as greenways; off-street bike routes aren't included.

Transit & connectivity

No LRT line in Britannia Youngstown today. The nearest station is University (Capital & Metro Lines), about 5.8 km away (straight-line). The neighbourhood is served by 11 bus routes.

Looking ahead, the nearest future stop is Jasper Place on the Valley Line West, about 1.0 km from the centre — under construction, targeted to open later this decade. Timelines can slip, and a nearby line doesn't imply any change in property values.

Nearest LRT

5.8 km

to University

Bus routes

11

serving the area

Future LRT

1.0 km

Jasper Place · under construction

Bus routes & notes

11 bus routes serve Britannia Youngstown: 52, 901, 903, 908, 909, 912, 914, 915, 921, 924 and 925. They run from 19 boardable stops inside the neighbourhood.

No route here meets the frequent-service bar (≈ 15-minute weekday headway).

Bus routes and frequency come from the City's ETS GTFS schedule — the routes whose trips call at stops inside Britannia Youngstown, with “frequent” meaning at least 100 weekday trips through the neighbourhood (about a bus every 15 minutes or better, counting both directions). Distances are straight-line (“as the crow flies”) from the neighbourhood centre — the actual walking or driving route is longer. Future stations are under construction; their locations and timelines come from City of Edmonton project pages and can change. Day-to-day commute mode (drive / transit / walk) is shown under “Who lives here.” Source: City of Edmonton LRT & ETS (GTFS) Open Data.

The market

Assessed value over time, and recent building activity.

Assessed value over time

Median assessed value changed +22% from 2012 to 2025.

That tracks Britannia Youngstown's houses — largely the same homes throughout — so it's a real value change, not a shifting mix.

$275,500 $336,500 2012201620212025

Building activity

Since 2015: 493 building permits, about 280 net new homes, and 72 secondary-suite permits.

Of those new units, roughly 39% are individually-owned (houses + condos), 60% purpose-built rental, and 0% in mixed-use buildings (0% other, e.g. hotels).

Owned Purpose-built rental Other

Split by building type (a strong proxy, not a guarantee of final tenure).

Permits year by year

Permits count every new home built — including purpose-built rental apartments and mixed-use buildings — so this can run well above the "total homes" figure above, which counts only individually-owned houses and condos.

Source

City of Edmonton Open Data — assessment, property info, building permits; Statistics Canada 2021 Census of Population (City of Edmonton neighbourhood tabulation). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton.

About these figures. They use the City of Edmonton's annual property assessment — its mass-appraisal estimate of value as of July 1 the prior year, informed by that year's sales but applied across the whole roll at once. That makes it a reliable directional and comparative signal (ideal for "how does this neighbourhood compare"), but not the exact price a specific home would sell for today — for that you need a comparative market analysis. Resident demographics and housing-cost figures (income and its distribution, age, education, commute, tenure, household types, shelter costs, occupations and industries, mobility) and the building-type, bedroom and condition mix are from the 2021 federal census — the most recent neighbourhood-level vintage; the City notes it fell during the pandemic, so treat these figures as directional. Census figures are adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Trevor Tardif is a licensed REALTOR® with REAL Broker AB Ltd, Edmonton, Alberta. Content on this site does not constitute financial or investment advice.

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