Bridgeport NorthKitchener

Trips to work from Bridgeport North are shorter than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 21 min on average

Few places match Bridgeport North for health: it beats 88% of Canadian towns

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Waterloo Health Unit

Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect 16% of the region’s adults on average, below Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike; what’s more, at 9%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 11% for Ontario. In the health survey, 53% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Ontario’s 51%. Across the region, life runs to 82.8 years on average: women 84.9, men 80.7, in 2022/2024.

Bridgeport North’s schools belong to 4 boards that cover the same streets

Results have eased at 10 of 15 schools over three years. The 15 with results split, 8 in the upper two fifths in Ontario and 5 in the lower. Schooling in French is on offer at 2 of 18; in Ontario, one in ten schools teach in it. In or within 3 km of Bridgeport North: 16 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 alternative or adult school, with 6,640 students.

Flood mapping exists for Bridgeport North: 1 on record, latest by Grand River Conservation Authority

Measured across the city of Kitchener: earthquake risk

Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Shaking is about as much of a worry in Bridgeport North as in most places, at $0.022 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical).

Bridgeport North earns a C+ for safety

Violent incidents in its police area came to 14.2 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Ontario’s towns (10.5) and Canadian towns (12). The index for the force that serves it came to 72, above both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Behind Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 sits data gathered across the Waterloo Region (Kitchener) service area, with Bridgeport North one part of it.

January nights in Bridgeport North drop to −10.3°C (Ontario towns −9.1°C, Canadian towns −13.5°C)

Snow peaks in January: 32 cm in a normal year. Gardeners get 149 frost-free days, from 8 May to 5 October. Some 115 cm of snow falls in a typical year, below both Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). For the wettest month, look to July: 96 mm on average.

23% of the people of Bridgeport North are children under 15

Nearly a third of residents belong to a visible minority, above both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%). First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.7% of residents, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

A normal November in Bridgeport North runs from −2°C to 7°C

ECCC’s forecast for Cambridge is on the Weather page, hour by hour. The month after, December, normally sees 1°C afternoons and −6°C nights. November usually brings some 9 cm of snow. In November, the normal is 75 mm of rain and snow.

One councillor per 29,450 residents: Kitchener is more thinly represented than 98% of Ontario municipalities

Bridgeport North is in Waterloo for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, whose current MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) no open source we can use records yet.

No public library stands in Bridgeport North: the closest, Region Of Waterloo Library - Bloomingdale Branch, is 1.9 km away

Bridgeport North is served by Kitchener public library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people.

Carisbrook Drive Natural Area reaches Bridgeport North

National parks are all over 100 km off. Of the country within 10 km, 0.9% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. 8.9 km out lies the largest, Huron Natural Area, at 96 ha. For a provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park lies 50 km off.

Renting in Bridgeport North costs 13% of household income, less than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns

95% of households own their home, above Ontario’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%) alike. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 14% of households, lower than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). Bridgeport North doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro area.