Mount Pleasant VillageBrampton

Mount Pleasant Village faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the city of Brampton: earthquake risk

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Mount Pleasant Village as in most places, at $0.030 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Flood mapping exists: 4 studies, most recently by Credit Valley Conservation Authority.

Most households in Mount Pleasant Village own their home: 88%, more than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

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

30% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Owners put the median home at $900,000, above both Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000).

Mount Pleasant Village’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 3.8 years: life expectancy 85.3

Smoking takes in nearly one in ten adults, age-standardised, below both Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%). Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: nearly half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Measured from where Mount Pleasant Village’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 5.7 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km.

Trips to work from Mount Pleasant Village take longer than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 37 min on average

85% of commuters drove, close to Ontario’s towns (88%) and below Canadian towns (89%).

Of Mount Pleasant Village’s 42 tested schools, 8 sit above the middle in Ontario and 22 below

The largest is Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School, with 1,870 students. No French-language school is among them; in Ontario, one in ten schools are. Its elementary schools are big ones, 550 students on average, against 365 in Ontario. Also worth knowing: the schools around it answer to 2 boards, lower than both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3).

Mount Pleasant Village has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

Most of the snow comes in January, about 32 cm. Frosty days number 131 in a normal year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 20 October: 174 days without it. On a January night, the temperature in Mount Pleasant Village falls to about −8.9°C.

For safety, Mount Pleasant Village gets 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

Property crime in its police area ran at 22.6 per 1,000 residents a year, below Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2) alike. Where it is policed, 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year.

Visible minorities make up more of Mount Pleasant Village than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 88%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.1% of residents, below both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Mount Pleasant Village in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

About 9 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Expect about 72 mm of rain and snow over November. Across the year, normals run from −9°C nights in January to 27°C afternoons in July. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Brampton forecast, on the Weather page.

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

City council runs Mount Pleasant Village; in October 2022, Brampton chose Patrick Brown as mayor.

Mount Pleasant Village has one public library, Brampton Library - Mount Pleasant Village Branch

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton Library serves all 708,210 people of the city, Mount Pleasant Village among them.

Mount Pleasant Village is 53 km from Rouge National Urban Park

Within 10 km are 10 protected areas. Biggest among them: Brampton Natural Heritage System, 1,126 ha, 0.2 km off. A provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, lies 18 km away.