A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)Brampton

Renting in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) eats 26% of household income, more than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

64% of households are owner-occupiers. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 28% of households, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Toronto metro area.

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns

Seismic risk in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) sits near the middle: $0.030 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Toronto Regional Conservation Authority.

Expect 85.3 years of life in the region around A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea), 3.8 above the typical Canadian town

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Peel Regional Health Unit

By their own account, nearly half of adults here are in very good or excellent health, lower than both Ontario’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%). Smoking is rarer than in the province: nearly one in ten adults, against 11% for Ontario. Measured from where A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.1 km away, under the typical 3.7 km.

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 86% of Canadian towns

Getting to work takes 30 min on average. The car took just over four in five commuters, lower than both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

Between the last spring frost, 27 April, and the first in autumn, 20 October, lie 174 days. The thermometer drops below freezing on 131 days a year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). The coldest nights come in January, when A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) averages a low of −8.9°C. A normal January brings 32 cm of snow, the most of any month.

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) earns a B for safety

Measured across the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Its police area recorded 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, below both Ontario’s towns (10.5) and Canadian towns (12). Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.6 per 1,000 people a year.

Results around A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) lean low: 27 of 43 schools in the lower two fifths in Ontario

The largest is St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, with 1,425 students. Its schools answer to 3 boards. Of the 43, one teaches in French (10% of schools in Ontario). The 3 km around A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) counts 34 elementary schools and 9 secondary schools, 21,530 students between them.

Visible minorities make up more of A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 62%

15% of residents have reached 65. First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 1% of residents, below Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

Then December: 2°C by day, −5°C at night. A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. November normally sees 72 mm of precipitation. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Brampton forecast.

Council seats in Brampton are spread thin, 70,710 residents each, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Provincially, A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) votes in Brampton Centre; the open record doesn’t name its MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, so the legislature’s own list is linked below.

No public library stands in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea): the closest, Chinguacousy Branch, is 1.2 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) among them.

Within 41 km of A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea): Rouge National Urban Park

One unnamed beach is mapped within 5 km. The largest named area nearby is Brampton Natural Heritage System, 1,126 ha, 2.0 km away. 7 protected areas lie within 10 km. The protected share within 10 km is 4.2%, where a typical Canadian town has 2.3%.