Ocean ParkSurrey

More households own their home in Ocean Park than in British Columbia’s towns or across Canadian towns: 86%

Measured across the Vancouver metro area: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom

Rent took 24% of household income, near British Columbia’s towns (24%) and higher than Canadian towns (20%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 28% of households, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Ocean Park’s 15 schools with results spread wide in British Columbia, 8 in the top two fifths and 2 in the bottom two

Teenagers have 4.2 km to go to the closest secondary school, above both British Columbia’s towns (1.8 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km).

Protected areas cover 27% of the country around Ocean Park

4 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Cresent Rock Beach. A provincial park, Peace Arch Park, lies 5.8 km away. Protected areas open to the public, within 10 km of the town: 99, above both British Columbia’s towns (14) and Canadian towns (4). For walks, 3 named routes run within 2 km, such as the Semiahmoo Greenway and Crescent Beach Greenway.

Few places match Ocean Park for health: it beats 90% of Canadian towns

The survey counts 8.2% of adults as smokers, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (9%) and Canadian towns (12%). Self-rated health is ordinary for British Columbia: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 50%. People in the region live to 83.2 on average: 85.8 for women and 80.7 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Ocean Park live 4.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area, with Ocean Park one part of it.

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

The Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers here cover the Surrey service area

Its police area records 9.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For violence alone, its police area’s index was 76, near British Columbia’s towns (76) and lower than Canadian towns (86).

July highs in Ocean Park: 25.0°C, against 23.1°C in British Columbia’s towns and 25.5°C in Canadian towns

Rain and snow peak in January, at 252 mm. A normal year brings 1,649 mm of precipitation, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (1,152 mm) and Canadian towns (883 mm). The coldest nights come in January, when Ocean Park averages a low of 0.5°C. Frost usually lifts by 11 April and returns around 30 October: 201 days without it.

Commuters in Ocean Park travel further than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, 30 min on average

At the census, 91% of commuters went by car.

Shaking costs buildings in Ocean Park $0.47 a year per $1,000 of value, 16 times the typical town’s

Source area for radon tests: the Fraser South health region

Fire seldom reaches Ocean Park: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town. Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Ocean Park alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Surrey.

An older town: 26% of people in Ocean Park are 65 or over, more than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns

Visible minorities make up 32% of the population, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (8.6%) and Canadian towns (15%). 1.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Expect November days around 10°C in Ocean Park, nights around 2°C

Into December, the normals move to 6°C and freezing. Snow is normal by November, about 3 cm over the month. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 249 mm. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s White Rock forecast, on the Weather page.

Ocean Park sends Ernie Klassen (Liberal Party of Canada) to the Commons from South Surrey—White Rock

Ocean Park is in Surrey-White Rock for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, whose current MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly, the provincial or territorial legislature) no open source we can use records yet.

Fewer visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Surrey Libraries counts 3.4

Surrey Libraries serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Ocean Park among them.