Clayton HeightsSurrey

Clayton Heights is graded 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 a quarter of household income, about level with British Columbia’s towns (24%) and above Canadian towns (20%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for nearly a quarter of households, above British Columbia’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike.

Few places match Clayton Heights for health: it beats 88% of Canadian towns

Smoking takes in 8.2% of adults, age-standardised, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (9%) and Canadian towns (12%). Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in British Columbia (50%). Women in the region live to 85.8 and men to 80.7, 83.2 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Clayton Heights apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 7.3 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area, with Clayton Heights one part of it.

Crime runs heavier where Clayton Heights is policed than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, at an index of 94

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

Violent incidents in its police area came to 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (12.5) and Canadian towns (12). For violence alone, its police area’s index was 76, close to British Columbia’s towns (76) and below Canadian towns (86).

Commuters in Clayton Heights travel further than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, 31 min on average

90% of commuters drove to work at the census.

Of Clayton Heights’s 25 tested schools, 3 sit above the middle in British Columbia and 10 below

Within 3 km of Clayton Heights are 24 elementary schools and 2 secondary schools.

Few Canadian towns get more rain and snow than Clayton Heights: 1,649 mm a year

The warmest stretch brings July afternoons of 25.0°C, above British Columbia’s towns (23.1°C) but below Canadian towns (25.5°C). For the wettest month, look to January: 252 mm on average. Between the last spring frost, 11 April, and the first in autumn, 30 October, lie 201 days. Clayton Heights sees January nights of 0.5°C on average.

Earthquake risk in Clayton Heights runs 16 times the typical Canadian town’s: $0.47 per $1,000 a year

The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from City of Surrey. Little of the land around Clayton Heights has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.002% a year. Clayton Heights doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Fraser South health region. Clayton Heights shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Surrey.

Visible minorities make up more of Clayton Heights than of British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 47%

3.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below British Columbia’s towns (5%) but above Canadian towns (2.8%).

A normal November in Clayton Heights runs from 2°C to 10°C

By December, a normal day reaches 6°C and a night falls to freezing. Snow is normal by November, about 7 cm over the month. In November, the normal is 249 mm of rain and snow. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Langley forecast.

Tamara Jansen (Conservative Party of Canada) holds Cloverdale—Langley City, the riding that includes Clayton Heights

From British Columbia come 43 MPs, 20 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Surrey Public Library logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Public Library serves all 703,615 people of the city, Clayton Heights among them.

Clayton Heights has 130 public protected areas within 10 km

Peace Arch Park is the closest provincial park, at 14 km. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, at 43 km. Walkers have 2 mapped routes close by, starting with the Fraser Greenway and Cloverdale Greenway. The largest named area nearby is Surrey Bend Regional Park, 331 ha, 5.0 km away.