Mount RoyaleHalifax

Rent takes more of local pay in Mount Royale than in Nova Scotia’s towns or Canadian towns: 30% of household income

The median home value was $348,000, higher than Nova Scotia’s towns ($250,000) yet lower than Canadian towns ($406,000).

Mount Royale has milder winters than Nova Scotia’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −8.3°C

For the wettest month, look to December: 156 mm on average. Frost usually lifts by 30 April and returns around 29 October: 181 days without it. The thermometer drops below freezing on 133 days a year, about level with Nova Scotia’s towns (133) and below Canadian towns (159). Mount Royale sees July afternoons of 22.7°C on average.

Around Mount Royale, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent

The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Mount Royale’s is long: 5.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. At 11%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 14% for Nova Scotia. Chronic conditions run at 18% of adults, age-standardised, between Nova Scotia’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (17%). A baby born in the region can expect 81.4 years, 83.4 for a girl and 79.3 for a boy (2022/2024).

Mount Royale gets a C+ for safety

Property crime in its police area ran at 37.3 per 1,000 residents a year, about level with Nova Scotia’s towns (36.2) and above Canadian towns (31.2). Violent incidents in its police area came to 13.8 per 1,000 residents a year, close to Nova Scotia’s towns (14.5) and above Canadian towns (12). Figures for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 are published for the Halifax Metropolitan Area service area as a whole, not for Mount Royale alone.

More of the land around Mount Royale is protected than around 9 in 10 Canadian towns

14 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Chocolate Lake Beach. Biggest among them: Five Bridge Lakes Wilderness Area, 8,626 ha, 5.7 km off. Within its own boundary, nearly a quarter of the neighbourhood is protected. There is no national park within 100 km of the town.

More of Mount Royale belongs to a visible minority than Nova Scotia’s towns or Canadian towns: 31%

Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, below Nova Scotia’s towns (25%) but above Canadian towns (19%). Children are just over a tenth of the town.

The 24 schools of Mount Royale: 16 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade

None of them teaches in French, though 6% of schools in Nova Scotia do.

Expect November days around 9°C in Mount Royale, nights around 1°C

About 19 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near 4°C and lows near −4°C. Expect about 135 mm of rain and snow over November. Normal highs peak at 23°C in August; nights bottom out at −8°C in January.

Mount Royale is split between 2 federal ridings, chiefly Halifax West and Halifax

Without an open map of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly’s ridings, this page can’t say which one Mount Royale is in.

The nearest public library to Mount Royale is Keshen Goodman Public Library, 1.5 km away

After it comes Killam Memorial Library (South End), 5 km away.

Mount Royale has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 63% of Canadian towns

Workers spend 21 min getting to work, on average.

Flood mapping exists for Mount Royale: 1 on record, latest by Halifax Regional Municipality

Measured across the Zone 6 health region: radon tests

In Health Canada’s survey, 13% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Mount Royale as in most places, at $0.018 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fire reaches the land around Mount Royale now and then: 2.2% within 25 km since 1986 (0.06% a year), below the high band. Mount Royale doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Halifax.