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Renting in Collingwood eats 36% of household income, more than in both British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

54% of households own their home, below British Columbia’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%) alike. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 30% of households, above British Columbia’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Collingwood shares its rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers with the rest of the Vancouver metro area.

Collingwood gets an A+ for health

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area

The region has fewer smokers than British Columbia, 7.3% of adults to 8.9%. On average 13% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below both British Columbia’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%). Women in the region live to 86.5 and men to 80.2, 83.3 years taken together (2022/2024). Self-rated health is ordinary for British Columbia: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 50%.

Schools in Collingwood: 3 boards, side by side

Results are mixed: 20 of 49 schools above the middle in British Columbia, 11 below it. Of the 64, 2 teach in French (2% of schools in British Columbia). The 3 km around Collingwood counts 52 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools, 1 school for every grade and 7 alternative or adult schools.

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

Collingwood sees July afternoons of 23.0°C on average. Frost comes on 17 days a year, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (60) and Canadian towns (159). Most of the snow comes in December, about 14 cm. November is the wettest month, with 245 mm of rain and snow on average.

Crime runs heavier where Collingwood is policed than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, at an index of 93

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for the Vancouver service area

Across its police area, there are 43.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The violent index for its police area came to 99, above British Columbia’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike.

Trips to work from Collingwood take longer than from British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 33 min on average

Visible minorities make up more of Collingwood than of British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 83%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1.5% of residents, below British Columbia’s towns (5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike. 10% of residents are children under 15. Over-65s are 14% of the population.

A normal November in Collingwood runs from 5°C to 10°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Vancouver forecast, on the Weather page. Into December, the normals move to 7°C and 3°C.

Turnout in Vancouver Kingsway was just 54% in 2021, below 90% of ridings

As part of Vancouver, Collingwood is governed by the city’s council, not one of its own.

VPL: Collingwood Branch is Collingwood’s public library

Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Collingwood among them.

A national park 44 km from Collingwood: Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

Named trails close by number 3, the BC Parkway and Central Valley Greenway among them. For a provincial park, Mount Seymour Park lies 9.1 km off. The protected share within 10 km is 0.8%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%. 11 areas within 10 km are protected for nature.

Earthquakes are Collingwood’s biggest hazard: $0.43 of damage a year per $1,000 of buildings, 14 times the norm

Of the homes tested for radon, 1.2% were over 200 Bq/m³, below both British Columbia’s towns (1.8%) and Canadian towns (6.6%). Fire seldom reaches Collingwood: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). No one has filed a flood map for Collingwood on the national inventory. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Vancouver health region, with Collingwood one part of it. Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Collingwood alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Vancouver.