West Jasper Place is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 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. Note that, during the 1980s and 1990s, Edmonton Transit System buses travelling out to locations 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, rather than a bus route with the neighbourhood of West Jasper Place as the destination. Bus routes terminating in the old 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 on the west, and Stony Plain Road on the North. The community is represented by the West Jasper/Sherwood Community League. Which maintains a community hall, outdoor rink and tennis courts located at 152 Street and 96 Avenue. The West Jasper Place Community League operated as a separate entity from 1950 until 1985 when it merged with the Sherwood Community League.
Demographics
In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, West Jasper Place had a population of living in dwellings, a -2.9% change from its 2009 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012. According to the 2005 municipal census, one in five of the population moved into the neighbourhood within the previous 12 months. Another one in four had moved within the previous one to three years. Only two out of every five had lived at the same address for five years or more. This is similar to the city at large. Just over half were male and just under half were female.
Residential development
According to the 2001 federal census, just under one third of the residential dwellings in the neighbourhood were built prior to the 1964 amalgamation of Jasper Place and Edmonton, with a significant number of those being built prior to the 1945 end of World War II. Approximately half of the residences were built between 1960 and 1980. The remaining 22.4% were built after 1980, with a particular spike in residential construction occurring in a short span during the early 1990s, when one in ten of residences were constructed. In 2005, three out of every five residences were rented apartments, including a small number of apartment style condominiums. Most of these are in low rise buildings with fewer than five stories. Another third of the residences were single detached houses. A small number were duplexes. Approximately two out of every three of all residences are rented.
There is a single park in the neighbourhood, Arthur Elliot Park. Bike trails in the MacKinnon Ravine, located just across 149 Street in the Crestwood neighbourhood, provide access to the city's River Valley Park System.
