WilmotNew Brunswick

On hazards, Wilmot comes out behind 87% of Canadian towns

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.062 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is higher than usual: 17% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. The national flood inventory has no study for Wilmot. Wilmot shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Region 3 health region.

For the force that serves Wilmot, the Crime Severity Index is 109, above New Brunswick’s towns and Canadian towns

These figures come from the closest detachment: none reports for Wilmot itself

Violent incidents in its police area came to 19.6 per 1,000 residents a year, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (14.9) and Canadian towns (12). For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 39 property crimes are reported each year. Wilmot doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the Western Valley Region detachment area.

Wilmot’s health region reports 45% in very good or excellent health, behind the typical Canadian town’s 52%

Smokers make up 15% of the region’s adults, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (12%). Lives in the region last 80.1 years on average (2022/2024): 81.9 for women, 78.2 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 13 km from the average resident of Wilmot, further than the usual 3.7 km. Behind health survey and life expectancy sits data gathered across the Zone 3 (Fredericton area), with Wilmot one part of it.

Wilmot is a town of owners: 92% of households own their home, above New Brunswick’s towns and Canadian towns

Shelter took 30% or more of income for one in ten households, above New Brunswick’s towns (9%) but below Canadian towns (18%). Rent took nearly a fifth of household income, about level with New Brunswick’s towns (20%) and below Canadian towns (20%).

Wilmot has 0.3 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out

The average trip to work took 22 min, about level with New Brunswick’s towns (21 min) and below Canadian towns (26 min).

No high school in or near Wilmot: the closest is 13 km off

Elementary school is 9.2 km away at the nearest, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (1.6 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km).

Wilmot has colder winters than New Brunswick’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −15.3°C

Some 292 cm of snow falls in a typical year, between New Brunswick’s towns (310 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). Gardeners get 126 frost-free days, from 18 May to 22 September. Snow peaks in January: 69 cm in a normal year. Also worth knowing: rain and snow peak in December, at 115 mm.

Older than 85% of Canadian towns: half of Wilmot is over 50

Nearly one in ten residents came to Canada as immigrants, higher than both New Brunswick’s towns (3.7%) and Canadian towns (6.4%). People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town. Under 15: 15% of residents.

In Wilmot, November normally means 5°C afternoons and −3°C nights

The month after, December, normally sees −2°C afternoons and −10°C nights. A normal November brings 101 mm of rain and snow. At the extremes, July afternoons reach 25°C and January nights −15°C. ECCC’s forecast for Woodstock is on the Weather page, hour by hour.

Tobique—Mactaquac, which takes in Wilmot, is held by Richard Bragdon (Conservative Party of Canada)

Across New Brunswick, 6 of the 10 MPs sit with the Liberal Party of Canada.

The nearest public library to Wilmot is Andrew and Laura McCain Public Library, 11 km away

4031300 begins at the edge of Wilmot

The protected share within 10 km is 1.4%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%. Within 100 km there is no national park. Mactaquac Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 64 km. 6 beaches are mapped within 5 km, none with a name.

In Wilmot, 39% of homes go back before 1961