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Hazard risk in Creditview is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns

Flood mapping exists: 3 studies, most recently by Credit Valley Conservation Authority. Seismic risk in Creditview sits near the middle: $0.030 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Creditview doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Brampton.

Measured against local pay, Creditview costs more to live in than 88% of Canadian towns

Source area for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom: the Toronto metro area

37% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). Households that own their home make up 79%.

Creditview’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 3.8 years: life expectancy 85.3

By their own account, nearly half of adults here are in very good or excellent health, below Ontario’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%) alike. At 8.2%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 11% for Ontario. What sets Creditview apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Figures for health survey and life expectancy are published for the Peel Regional Health Unit as a whole, not for Creditview alone.

Trips to work from Creditview take longer than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 38 min on average

Driving is how 87% of commuters got to work at the census.

Mixed results around Creditview: 8 high and 15 low of 32 schools in Ontario

Its elementary schools are big ones, 605 students on average, against 365 in Ontario. Counting each board with a school within 3 km gives 2, lower than both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,870 students. No French-language school is among them; in Ontario, 10% of schools are.

Summer runs warm in Creditview: July highs of 27.4°C, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

A normal January night drops to −8.9°C, near Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) and higher than Canadian towns (−13.5°C). Gardeners get 174 frost-free days, from 27 April to 20 October. For the wettest month, look to June: 81 mm on average. Most of the snow comes in January, about 32 cm.

Creditview’s grade for safety: a B

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

Where it is policed, thefts, break-ins and damage came to 22.6 per 1,000 a year, below both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). The force’s area logs 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Visible minorities make up more of Creditview than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 90%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.7% of residents, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Creditview in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

December follows at 2°C by day and −5°C by night. Snowfall in a normal November: 9 cm. Expect about 72 mm of rain and snow over November. The year peaks in July (27°C) and bottoms out in January (−9°C).

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

Creditview is in Brampton West 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.

No public library stands in Creditview: the closest, Brampton Library - Mount Pleasant Village Branch, is 0.9 km away

Creditview is served by Brampton public library, the library of all of Brampton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 708,210 people.

Rouge National Urban Park is 54 km from Creditview

CPCAD lists 10 protected areas within 10 km. Protected areas take in 24% of the neighbourhood itself. For a provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park lies 18 km off.