Did you know that the total area of St. Albert is 4,973 hectares?
This and many other points of statistical interest were contained within the city’s 2014 annual report.
Council signed off on the report on Monday night. Statistics were available on a myriad of topics, from crime rates to financial information to the number of people who went to the Arden Theatre last year.
Here’s a sampling of some of the statistics in the report:
Arden Theatre attendance: 2014: 90,289 2013: 81,620.
Registered city program participants: 2014: 212,127 2013: 215,607
City facility rental hours: 2014: 83,365 2013: 55,466
Building construction value: 2014: $200.2-million 2013: $209.15-million
Pothole repair: 2014: 3,250 2013: 3,645
Water consumption per capita per day: 2014: 251 litres 2013: 256.7 litres
Transit ridership: 2014: 1,007,999 riders 2013: 1,008,152 riders
Criminal code incidents: 2014: 49.57 incidents per 1,000 people 2013: 59.45 incidents per 1,000 people
City employees: 2014: 585.21 2013: 575.64
Net debt per capita: 2014: $779 2013: $861
Park area: 2014: 515 hectares 2013: 510 hectares
Population: 2014: 63,255 2013: 61,421
2014 finances
Surplus: $889.3-million
Financial assets: $152.4-million
Non-financial assets: $855.6-million
Reserves: $83.9-million
At the same meeting, the first State of Recreation and Parks was unveiled for council’s approval.
Like the annual report, there was a lot of information about those facilities and programs, along with statistics on everything from the number of dogs who used Grosvenor Outdoor Pool during the annual dog swim to social media statistics.
Dog swim canine participants: 169
Total aquatics users: 2014: 706,796 2013: 668,175
Kilometres of trails: 85
Servus Place fitness centre users: 2014: 346,495 2013: 334,263
Skateboard park users: 18,160
Servus Starbucks’ sales: 2014: $661,813 2013: $597,721
Servus Place Twitter followers: 1,139
