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For safety, Bridgwater Trails gets a D

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

The index for the force that serves it came to 129, about level with Manitoba’s towns (129) and above Canadian towns (67). Violent crime in the area its police cover: 18 per 1,000 people a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 58.8 property crimes are reported each year.

More households are stretched by shelter costs in Bridgwater Trails: 32% spend 30%+ of income, against 18% in the typical Canadian town

The owner-occupied share of households is 78%.

Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Bridgwater Trails stands on hazards

Source area for earthquake risk: the city of Winnipeg

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No one has filed a flood map for Bridgwater Trails on the national inventory.

Life expectancy around Bridgwater Trails is 80.0 years, 1.5 less than for the typical Canadian town

About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Manitoba, 52% against 51%. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 10% of adults, against 12% for Manitoba. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.1 km from the average resident of Bridgwater Trails, about the norm of 3.7 km. Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region, with Bridgwater Trails one part of it.

Bridgwater Trails has colder winter nights than 95% of Canadian towns

Snow peaks in December: 27 cm in a normal year. Frost comes on 193 days a year, close to Manitoba’s towns (193) and above Canadian towns (159). Gardeners get 122 frost-free days, from 23 May to 22 September. A normal July brings 77 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

Visible minorities make up more of Bridgwater Trails than of Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 69%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 3.5% of residents, below Manitoba’s towns (12%) but above Canadian towns (2.8%).

Expect November days around freezing in Bridgwater Trails, nights around −9°C

Snowfall in a normal November: 21 cm. The month after, December, normally sees −8°C afternoons and −17°C nights. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 25 mm. July brings the warmest days, 26°C; January the coldest nights, −21°C.

Bridgwater Trails sends Terry Duguid (Liberal Party of Canada) to the Commons from Winnipeg South

Bridgwater Trails’ riding for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba isn’t named: the licence for the province’s boundary file couldn’t be read, so it isn’t used.

The nearest public library to Bridgwater Trails is Pembina Trail Library, 3.4 km away

The next is Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library (Normand Park), 5.5 km away.

Commuters in Bridgwater Trails travel further than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns, 28 min on average

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

9 boards run the schools in and around Bridgwater Trails

Within 3 km of Bridgwater Trails are 13 elementary schools and 5 secondary schools. Of the 18, one teaches in French (3% of schools in Manitoba). Measured from the centre, the closest high school lies 2.5 km off, above both Manitoba’s towns (1.1 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km).

20 public protected areas lie within 10 km of Bridgwater Trails

The largest named area nearby is Assiniboine Forest, 286 ha, 4.9 km away. 18 km from town is Beaudry Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. 1.4% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). National parks are all over 100 km off.