Spring ValleyBrampton

Spring Valley faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns

Earthquake risk for the city of Brampton

Earthquake risk in Spring Valley 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. Credit Valley Conservation Authority has mapped the flood hazard here, one of 4 studies on the national inventory.

In Spring Valley, 37% of households give 30% or more of their income to shelter; the typical Canadian town has 18%

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

A year’s rent came to 19% of the median household income, below both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%). 82% of households own their home.

Expect 85.3 years of life in the region around Spring Valley, 3.8 above the typical Canadian town

Smoking takes in 8.2% of adults, age-standardised, below both Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%). The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 5.7 km from the average resident of Spring Valley, further than the usual 3.7 km. Figures for health survey and life expectancy are published for the Peel Regional Health Unit as a whole, not for Spring Valley alone.

Commuters in Spring Valley travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 36 min on average

86% of commuters drove, about level with both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Of Spring Valley’s 40 tested schools, 9 sit above the middle in Ontario and 20 below

Within 3 km, 2 boards share the schools, lower than both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). The largest is Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School, with 1,870 students. None of them teaches in French, though one in ten schools in Ontario do. Its elementary schools are big ones, 527 students on average, against 365 in Ontario.

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

Snow peaks in January: 32 cm in a normal year. There are 131 days of frost in a typical year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Winter lows in Spring Valley average −8.9°C in January. Gardeners get 174 frost-free days, from 27 April to 20 October.

For safety, Spring Valley gets a B

Its police area records 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.6 per 1,000 people a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 56, about level with Ontario’s towns (56) and below Canadian towns (67).

Visible minorities make up more of Spring Valley than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 93%

What November brings in Spring Valley: freezing at night, 8°C by day

ECCC’s forecast for Brampton is on the Weather page, hour by hour. Precipitation in November averages 72 mm. Snowfall in a normal November: 9 cm. December follows at 2°C by day and −5°C by night.

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

City council runs Spring Valley; in October 2022, Brampton chose Patrick Brown as mayor.

The nearest public library to Spring Valley is Brampton Library - Mount Pleasant Village Branch, 1.1 km away

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

Rouge National Urban Park is 53 km from Spring Valley

The 10 km around town hold 7 protected areas. Forks of the Credit Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 20 km. Protected areas take in 8.4% of the neighbourhood itself.