Algoma, Unorganized, North PartOntario

Teaching in French: 3 of Algoma, Unorganized, North Part’s 5 schools

Counting a 3 km margin, Algoma, Unorganized, North Part has 4 elementary schools and 1 secondary school. Elementary schools here average 153 students; in Ontario, 365. Teenagers have 31 km to go to the closest secondary school, above Ontario’s towns (1.2 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km) alike. All four of Ontario’s systems run schools here, English and French, public and Catholic.

Algoma, Unorganized, North Part earns a D− for health

At 17%, the share of adults who smoke tops the 11% for Ontario. Expected years of life at birth: 77.9, below Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5) alike. Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 46% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. For Algoma, Unorganized, North Part itself the measure is access, and it lags: 25 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

Violent crime weighs more where Algoma, Unorganized, North Part is policed than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 509

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Algoma, Unorganized, North Part · Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for the Sault Ste. Marie detachment area

For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 52.6 violent incidents are reported each year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 302 over 2023–25, higher than both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Property crime in the area its police cover: 75.6 per 1,000 people a year.

Commuters in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 31 min on average

Hazard risk in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part is lower than in 88% of Canadian towns

Radon is about average around Algoma, Unorganized, North Part: 8.6% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Fire seldom reaches Algoma, Unorganized, North Part: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). The Corporation of the Municipality of Huron Shores has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory.

Pukaskwa National Park lies 14 km beyond Algoma, Unorganized, North Part’s edge

Within 10 km, just over a tenth of the land is protected, above both Ontario’s towns (2.3%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). 91 protected areas lie within 10 km. Also worth knowing: 228 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Beach area. 4 mapped walking routes pass within 2 km, among them the Lake Superior Coastal Trail and Voyageur Trail - Stokely Creek.

Summers stay cool in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part: July afternoons reach 24.2°C, below Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Frost usually lifts by 28 May and returns around 29 September: 123 days without it. Snow totals 325 cm over the year, above Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. In January, overnight lows in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part settle at −14.5°C. A normal January brings 84 cm of snow, the most of any month.

More of Algoma, Unorganized, North Part’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 15%

Children under 15 make up 13%, lower than both Ontario’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for 26% of residents.

More households own their home in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part than in Ontario’s towns or across Canadian towns: 95%

Rent took 16% of household income, lower than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 8% of households, lower than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Algoma, Unorganized, North Part in November: highs near 5°C, lows near −3°C

A typical November adds 44 cm of snow. In November, the normal is 89 mm of rain and snow. Over the year, July is warmest at 24°C by day and February coldest at −15°C by night. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Sault Ste. Marie forecast, on the Weather page.

Algoma, Unorganized, North Part’s MP is Terry Sheehan (Liberal Party of Canada), for Sault Ste. Marie—Algoma

Northern Ontario’s provincial ridings differ from the federal ones, and no open file of them exists, so Algoma, Unorganized, North Part’s riding for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario isn’t shown.

The nearest public library to Algoma, Unorganized, North Part is Arthur Wishart Library / West Wing, 34 km away

The next is James L.

The registers record 1 historic place in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part

Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more. At the 2021 census, nearly a fifth of homes dated from before 1961, below Ontario’s towns (22%) but above Canadian towns (18%).