West Jasper Place is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton

Edmonton

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, Alberta

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, Canada

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. Originally part of the Town of Jasper Place, West Jasper Place became a part of Edmonton when Edmonton and Jasper Place amalgamated on August 17, 1964.

While most of the neighbourhood is residential, there is some commercial development, with most of this adjacent to Stony Plain Road at the neighbourhood's north end. This development includes the Jasper Gates shopping centre.

As an item of note, during the 1980s

1980s

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 and 1990s

1990s

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, Edmonton Transit System

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 buses travelling out to West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall

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 and the neighbourhoods west of 170 Street showed a destination of West Jasper Place. This meant a bus route with a destination west of the old Jasper Place townsite

Townsite

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, rather than a bus route with the neighborhood of West Jasper Place as the destination. Bus routes terminating in the townsite area usually showed a destination of Jasper Place.

The neighbourhood is bounded by 149 Street on the east, 95 Avenue on the south, 156 Street

156 Street, Edmonton

156 Street is a major arterial road in west Edmonton, and east St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. In Edmonton, 156 Street runs through the old town of Jasper Place, and Edmonton's west industrial district. St. Albert names their roads, rather than numbering them, even if a street runs straight from...

 on the west, and Stony Plain Road

Stony Plain Road

Stony Plain Road is a major arterial road in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Parkland Highway is an alternative route to the corresponding section of Alberta Highway 16 in Parkland County.-Parkland Highway:...

 on the North.

Residential development

According to the 2001 federal census, just under one third (29.4%) of the residential dwellings in the neighbourhood were built prior to the amalgamation of Jasper Place and Edmonton, with a significant number being built prior to the end of World War II

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. Appriximately half (48.2%) of the residences were built between 1960

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 and 1980

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. The remainder are more recently with a spike in home construction occurring in the early 1990s

1990s

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 when one in ten (11.7%) or residences were constructed.

In 2005, three out of every five residences (59.3%) were rented

Renting

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 apartment

Apartment

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s with a small number apartment style condominium

Condominium

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s. Most of these are in low rise buildings with fewer than five stories. Another third of the residences (35.5%) were single detached houses. A small number were duplexes

Duplex (building)

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 (5%).

Approximately two out of every three (68%) or residences are rented with the remaining one out of three (32%) being owner occupied.

People

According to the 2005 municipal census, one in five (17.9%) of the population having moved within the previous 12 months. Another one in four (23.9%) had moved within the previous one to three years. Only two out of every five (42.7%) had lived at the same address for five years or more. This is similar to the city at large.

Just over half (51%) were male and just under half (49%) were female.

Schools

There is a single school at the southern edge of the neighbourhood, Sherwood Elementary School, operated by the Edmonton Public School System

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.

The Centre for the Arts Campus (formerly Jasper Place Campus) of MacEwan University is located near the north west corner of the neighbourhood.

Parks and green space

There is a single park in the neighbourhood, Arthur Elliot Park.

Bike trails in the McKinnon Ravine, located just across 149 Stree in Crestwood

Crestwood, Edmonton

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, provide access to the city's river valley park system.

Surrounding neighbourhoods

Adjacent neighbourhoods are Crestwood

Crestwood, Edmonton

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, Parkview

Parkview, Edmonton

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, Sherwood

Sherwood, Edmonton

Sherwood is a small neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Originally part of the Town of Jasper Place, it became a part of Edmonton when Jasper Place amalgamated with Edmonton in 1964....

, Meadowlark Park

Meadowlark Park, Edmonton

Meadowlark Park is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was originally part of the Town of Jasper Place, becoming a part of Edmonton when Jasper Place amalgamated with the city in 1964....

, Glenwood

Glenwood, Edmonton

Glenwood is a large neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The neighbourhood has a mixture of residential and commercial development...

, Britannia-Youngstown, Canora

Canora, Edmonton

Canora is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Canora was originally part of the Town of Jasper Place, and became a part of Edmonton when Jasper Place amalgamated with the city in 1964....

 and Grovenor

Grovenor, Edmonton

Grovenor is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was originally called Westgrove and a professional building on 142 Street still uses that name....

. These are all residential neighbourhoods.