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Bainbridge earns a D− for cost of living

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Vancouver metro area

Rent took nearly a quarter of household income, near British Columbia’s towns (24%) and higher than Canadian towns (20%). Home ownership covers 72% of households.

Bainbridge scores better for health than 88% of Canadian towns

Women in the region live to 86.6 and men to 82.1, 84.4 years taken together (2022/2024). Smokers make up 7.5% of the region’s adults, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (9%) and Canadian towns (12%). What’s more, on self-rated health the region tracks the province: 48% very good or excellent, 50% for British Columbia. Measured from where Bainbridge’s residents live, a hospital is 3.1 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for Bainbridge alone, so this card uses the figure for the Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area.

Bainbridge has milder winters than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of 3.3°C

Most of the snow comes in December, about 14 cm. Frosty days number 17 in a normal year, below British Columbia’s towns (60) and Canadian towns (159) alike. The warmest afternoons come in July, at around 23.0°C in Bainbridge.

Bainbridge’s 28 schools with results spread wide in British Columbia, 14 in the top two fifths and 4 in the bottom two

Taken together, Bainbridge and its 3 km edge hold 24 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 4 alternative or adult schools. The nearest secondary school is 2.5 km away, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (1.8 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km).

Earthquakes are Bainbridge’s biggest hazard: $0.36 of damage a year per $1,000 of buildings, 12 times the norm

Fire seldom reaches Bainbridge: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). No one has filed a flood map for Bainbridge on the national inventory. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Fraser North health region, Bainbridge included. Bainbridge shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Burnaby.

Bainbridge earns a C+ for safety

Measured across the Burnaby service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 65, below British Columbia’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 35.9 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed. Where it is policed, 10.9 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year.

Trips to work from Bainbridge take longer than from British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 31 min on average

The car carried 84% of commuters at the census.

Visible minorities make up more of Bainbridge than of British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 62%

Children under 15 count for 15% of the people here. 2.5% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below British Columbia’s towns (5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike. Those 65 and older account for 21% of residents.

Bainbridge in November: highs near 10°C, lows near 5°C

Snow is normal by November, about 3 cm over the month. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 245 mm. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Vancouver forecast, on the Weather page.

2 MPs share Bainbridge, which straddles Burnaby North—Seymour and Burnaby Central

Burnaby East is the riding Bainbridge votes in for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and its MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly, the provincial or territorial legislature) isn’t named here because no open list records the members.

No public library stands in Bainbridge: the closest, BCIT Library, is 3.7 km away

The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Bainbridge among them.

The The Trans Canada Trail passes Bainbridge

CPCAD lists 23 protected areas within 10 km. 26 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Whiteshell Bank. Mount Seymour Park is the closest provincial park, at 5.8 km. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, at 48 km.