Official Name: | Blackburne |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Edmonton |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Blackburne in Edmonton |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | Edmonton |
Subdivision Type3: | Quadrant[1] |
Subdivision Name3: | SW |
Subdivision Type4: | Ward |
Subdivision Name4: | Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi |
Subdivision Type5: | Sector[2] |
Subdivision Name5: | Southwest |
Government Footnotes: | [3] |
Leader Title: | Administrative body |
Leader Name: | Edmonton City Council |
Leader Title1: | Councillor |
Area Footnotes: | [4] |
Area Total Km2: | 0.72 |
Population As Of: | 2012 |
Population Total: | 1520 |
Population Density Km2: | 2111.1 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2009–12) |
Population Blank1: | 0.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 593 |
Coordinates: | 53.429°N -113.497°W |
Elevation M: | 681 |
Blackburne is a neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is an irregularly shaped neighbourhood whose southwest boundary overlooks the Blackmud Creek Ravine. It is bounded by Anthony Henday Drive to the north and by Calgary Trail to the east. A small portion of the neighbourhood extends across Blackmud Creek to 111 Street in the west.
According to the 2001 federal census, all residential construction in Blackburne occurred after 1990.[5]
The most common type of residence in the neighbourhood, according to the 2005 municipal census, is the single-family dwelling. These account for seven out of every ten (70%) of all the residences in the neighbourhood. Duplexes[6] are the next most common, accounting for another one out every seven (14%) of all the residences in the neighbourhood. The remaining residences are divided almost equally between row houses (8%) and apartment style condominiums in low-rise buildings with fewer than five stories (8%). Substantially all (96%) residences in the neighbourhood are owner-occupied.[7]
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Blackburne had a population of living in dwellings,[8] a 0.7% change from its 2009 population of .[9] With a land area of 0.72km2, it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012.[4] [8]