River Heights, Winnipeg

River Heights is a community area in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located south of the Assiniboine River, west of Fort Rouge at Cambridge Street, east of Edgeland St. adjacent to Tuxedo, and north of the Canadian National Railways mainline. To the north of Academy Road is Wellington Crescent.

The land which is now River Heights was once part of the Parish of St. Boniface. It was annexed by the City of Winnipeg in 1882 though substantial development did not occur in the area until after World War I.

It was traditionally an Anglo-Saxon Protestant area, though today the area has a more diverse population, featuring a Jewish presence, which makes up 11% of the neighbourhood's population.

River Heights, along with West Fort Rouge, comprised the South End of the old City of Winnipeg. It was these areas which contributed the majority of the men and the money to form the Citizens Committee of 1000, the group which broke the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

In 2006, the population of River Heights was 56,505, has been constantly going down since 1971 when the population was 70,650, other than the 0.5% increase from 2001 to 2006. The median household income in River Heights is $47,646, slightly lower than the city-average at $49,790.

Note: The latest available population statistics are from 2006, whereas the latest crime statistics are from 2012, so the rates might be off slightly.

River Heights statistically speaking, has lower crime rates in almost every crime compared to the city as a whole, but quite the opposite with the national rates. The crime in 2012 is as followed;

River Heights is a community area with 17 neighborhoods, so the crime in each neighborhood differs.

River Heights is part of the Winnipeg School Division, and includes the following schools:

According to the Winnipeg Census Profiles, River Heights is divided into two neighbourhood clusters; River Heights West and River Heights East, for a total of 17 neighbourhoods which include;

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