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Inch Park is a town of owners: 81% of households own their home, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

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

16% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Owners put the median home at $552,000, below Ontario’s towns ($695,000) but above Canadian towns ($406,000).

Wildfire low, radon 5%: how Inch Park stands on hazards

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

Earthquake risk in Inch Park is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.044 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. No flood study for Inch Park is on the national inventory.

Inch Park’s schools belong to 4 boards that cover the same streets

The largest is Cathedral High School, with 1,650 students. Of the 46 with results, 28 sit in the lower two fifths in Ontario. Results have climbed at 34 of 46 schools over three years. In or within 3 km of Inch Park: 43 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 2 alternative or adult schools, with 23,125 students.

Inch Park has milder winters than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −6.3°C

For the wettest month, look to July: 98 mm on average. A normal winter brings 115 cm of snow, lower than both Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). January is the snowiest month, with 32 cm on average.

Around Inch Park, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent

Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men. Smoking is commoner than in the province: 13% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. Measured from where Inch Park’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.1 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. For health survey and life expectancy, the only official count covers all of the City of Hamilton Health Unit, Inch Park included.

Children make up only 14% of Inch Park, fewer than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

People 65 and over make up 17% of the town, lower than both Ontario’s towns (19%) and Canadian towns (19%). 1.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity, higher than Ontario’s towns (1.6%) yet lower than Canadian towns (2.8%).

In Inch Park, November normally means 8°C afternoons and 3°C nights

Across the year, normals run from −6°C nights in January to 26°C afternoons in July. A normal November brings 78 mm of rain and snow. A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Hamilton forecast.

40,030 residents per council seat in Hamilton, a higher ratio than 99% of Ontario municipalities

Hamilton, which governs Inch Park, elected Andrea Horwath mayor in October 2022.

Inch Park has no public library of its own; the nearest is Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch, 0.6 km away

Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Inch Park among them.

Households in Inch Park earn more than those in 73% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 28 min, near Ontario’s towns (29 min) and higher than Canadian towns (26 min). By car: that was how 86% of commuters travelled at the census.

Inch Park’s grade for safety: a B−

The index for the force that serves it came to 66, about level with Canadian towns (67) and above Ontario’s towns (56). The violent index for its police area came to 86, higher than Ontario’s towns (76) and near Canadian towns (86).

The nearest provincial park to Inch Park is Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 19 km away

Protected areas cover 4.8% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. 6.1 km out lies the largest, Windermere Basin Park, at 39 ha. Within 10 km are 21 protected areas. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Rouge National Urban Park, at 85 km.

79% of Inch Park’s homes were built before 1961