N-Section (bramalea)Brampton

N-Section (bramalea) gets an A for hazard risk

Area-wide: earthquake risk, counted over the city of Brampton

Earthquake risk in N-Section (bramalea) is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.030 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Toronto Regional Conservation Authority.

Measured against local pay, N-Section (bramalea) costs more to live in than 85% of Canadian towns

82% of households own their home, above both Ontario’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%). A year’s rent came to 20% of the median household income, below Ontario’s towns (22%) and close to Canadian towns (20%). Figures for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom are published for the Toronto metro area as a whole, not for N-Section (bramalea) alone.

Life expectancy around N-Section (bramalea) is 85.3 years, 3.8 more than for the typical Canadian town

Shared with the rest of the Peel Regional Health Unit: health survey and life expectancy

The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average nearly a fifth of adults, above both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: nearly half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%, and on top of that the region has fewer smokers than Ontario, 8.2% of adults to 11%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of N-Section (bramalea) live 2.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km.

Commuters in N-Section (bramalea) travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 32 min on average

89% of commuters drove, about level with both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

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

Winter lows average −8.9°C in January, about level with Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) and above Canadian towns (−13.5°C). A normal January brings 32 cm of snow, the most of any month. Between the last spring frost, 27 April, and the first in autumn, 20 October, lie 174 days. Rain and snow peak in June, at 81 mm.

N-Section (bramalea) gets a B for safety

Property crime in its police area ran at 22.6 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than 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. N-Section (bramalea) doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area.

English or French, public or Catholic: N-Section (bramalea)’s schools come under 4 boards

2 of the 58 teach in French, against 10% of schools in Ontario. The largest is Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School, with 1,745 students. Also worth knowing: of its 58 tested schools, 16 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 29 in the bottom two. In or within 3 km of N-Section (bramalea): 49 elementary schools and 9 secondary schools, with 29,315 students.

Visible minorities make up more of N-Section (bramalea) than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 72%

0.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Retirement age and beyond: 17% of residents are 65 or older. Under-15s account for 15% of the population.

In N-Section (bramalea), November normally means 8°C afternoons and freezing nights

In November, the normal is 72 mm of rain and snow. By December, a normal day reaches 2°C and a night falls to −5°C. About 9 cm of snow falls in a normal November. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Brampton forecast.

Brampton has one council seat for every 70,710 residents, more than 99% of municipalities in Ontario

Provincially, N-Section (bramalea) votes in Brampton North; 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.

N-Section (bramalea) has no public library of its own; the nearest is Brampton Library - Chinguacousy Branch, 2.5 km away

Brampton public library serves the whole of Brampton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 708,210 people, N-Section (bramalea) among them.

A national park 46 km from N-Section (bramalea): Rouge National Urban Park

The 10 km around town hold 7 protected areas. Brampton Natural Heritage System (1,126 ha) is the biggest, 0.8 km from town. A provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, lies 21 km away. 5.5% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%).