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Athens earns a D for hazard risk

Earthquakes are expected to cost $0.067 a year for every $1,000 of buildings, close to Ontario’s towns ($0.043) and above Canadian towns ($0.030). More homes than usual carry radon here, 19% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. No flood study for Athens is on the national inventory.

Trips to work from Athens take longer than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 31 min on average

In the lower two fifths in Ontario: 2 of the 3 schools around Athens with results

Its elementary schools are small, 138 students on average, against 365 in Ontario. In or within 3 km of Athens: 3 elementary schools and 1 secondary school, with 575 students.

Violent crime weighs less where Athens is policed than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 51

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Athens · Shared with the rest of the Leeds County (Brockville) detachment area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Across its police area, there are 14.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 50, below Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67) alike. In addition, its police area records 9.3 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Rent takes less of local pay in Athens than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 15% of household income

Shelter took 30% or more of income for one in ten households, lower than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). Owners make up just over nine in ten households.

January lows in Athens: −11.3°C, against −9.1°C in Ontario’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

Precipitation totals 1,017 mm a year, higher than both Ontario’s towns (902 mm) and Canadian towns (883 mm). Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 14 October: 169 days without it. Most of the snow comes in January, about 50 cm. For the wettest month, look to July: 99 mm on average.

Fewer of Athens’s people belong to a visible minority than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 0.7%

Immigrants make up 4% of residents, below Ontario’s towns (7.6%) and Canadian towns (6.4%) alike. First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1% of residents, below Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

51% of adults around Athens rate their health very good or excellent

Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.2, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). Smoking is commoner than in the province: 14% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. Chronic conditions run at 18% of adults, age-standardised, near both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Athens’ is long: 14 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical.

Athens in November: highs near 7°C, lows near freezing

About 11 cm of snow falls in a normal November. November normally sees 81 mm of precipitation. Normal highs peak at 26°C in July; nights bottom out at −11°C in January. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Brockville forecast, on the Weather page.

Less is spent per resident in Athens than in 97% of Ontario’s lower-tier municipalities

Athens is in Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, whose current MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) no open source we can use records yet.

Fewer loans per person served than 95% of Ontario’s town libraries: Athens Public Library lends 1.6

A single building, Athens Public Library, serves 3,042 people.

Athens is 9.1 km from Thousand Islands National Park

Within 10 km of the town, 3.9% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town. Public parks and reserves within 10 km: 2, below Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (4) alike.

34% of Athens’s homes were built before 1961