Northwood ParkBrampton

For cost of living, Northwood Park gets a D

Shelter took 30% or more of income for a quarter of households, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 78%. Northwood Park shares its rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers with the rest of the Toronto metro area.

Hazard risk in Northwood Park is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns

Measured across the city of Brampton: earthquake risk

The national inventory holds 3 flood maps for it, the newest from Credit Valley Conservation Authority. Earthquake risk in Northwood Park 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.

People in Northwood Park’s health region live to 85.3 on average, 3.8 years beyond the typical Canadian town

What sets Northwood Park apart within its region is distance, and at 3.2 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). 8.2% of adults smoke, daily or now and then, below Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%) alike. Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: nearly half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Northwood Park doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Peel Regional Health Unit.

Commuters in Northwood Park travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 34 min on average

87% of commuters drove, close to both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Schools in Northwood Park: 3 boards, side by side

Of its 57 tested schools, 9 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 31 in the bottom two. David Suzuki Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,700 students. In French: one of the 57 schools, where in Ontario the share is 10%. The 3 km around Northwood Park counts 49 elementary schools and 8 secondary schools, 31,715 students between them.

Northwood Park has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

The coldest nights come in January, when Northwood Park averages a low of −8.9°C. There are 131 days of frost in a typical year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 20 October: 174 days without it. June is the wettest month, with 81 mm of rain and snow on average.

For safety, Northwood Park gets a B

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area

Violent crime in the area its police cover: 8.5 per 1,000 people a year. 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.

More of Northwood Park belongs to a visible minority than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 65%

15% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Ontario’s towns (19%) and Canadian towns (19%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.4% of residents, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Expect November days around 8°C in Northwood Park, nights around freezing

Expect about 72 mm of rain and snow over November. Into December, the normals move to 2°C and −5°C. A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Brampton forecast, on the Weather page.

One councillor per 70,710 residents: Brampton is more thinly represented than 99% of Ontario municipalities

For federal votes, Northwood Park belongs to Brampton South, its riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP); Sonia Sidhu (Liberal Party of Canada) holds it.

Northwood Park has no public library of its own; the nearest is Brampton Library - Four Corners Branch, 2.5 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, Northwood Park among them.

Northwood Park is 50 km from Rouge National Urban Park

Biggest among them: Brampton Natural Heritage System, 1,126 ha, 0.1 km off. For a provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park lies 21 km off. 7 protected areas lie within 10 km.