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Renting in Cherry Hill eats 33% of household income, more than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

The rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers here cover the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro area

The median home value was $500,000, below Ontario’s towns ($695,000) but above Canadian towns ($406,000). Shelter took 30% or more of income for just over a third of households, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Health in Cherry Hill beats 94% of Canadian towns

The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cherry Hill is well placed: 0.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 9% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. On average 16% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, lower than both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). In the health survey, 53% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Ontario’s 51%. Cherry Hill doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Waterloo Health Unit.

Cherry Hill is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Grand River Conservation Authority

Measured across the city of Kitchener: earthquake risk

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Cherry Hill as in most places, at $0.022 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is lower than usual: 4% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town.

Driving to work is less common in Cherry Hill than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 77% of commuters

The average trip to work takes 24 min.

English or French, public or Catholic: Cherry Hill’s schools come under 4 boards

On the tests, 8 of 36 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 18 under it. The largest is Resurrection Catholic Secondary School, with 1,920 students. Schooling in French is on offer at 2 of 43; in Ontario, 10% of schools teach in it. Counting a 3 km margin, Cherry Hill has 37 elementary schools and 6 secondary schools, for 24,495 students.

Cherry Hill’s grade for safety: a C+

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

Its police area recorded 14.2 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, above both Ontario’s towns (10.5) and Canadian towns (12). Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 72 over 2023–25, above both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67).

January lows in Cherry Hill: −10.3°C, against −9.1°C in Ontario’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

January is the snowiest month, with 32 cm on average. The frost-free season runs from 8 May to 5 October, 149 days. A normal July day peaks at 26.6°C, near Ontario’s towns (26.7°C) and higher than Canadian towns (25.5°C). The most precipitation falls in July: 96 mm in a normal year.

Children make up only 12% of Cherry Hill, fewer than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Retirement age and beyond: 16% of residents are 65 or older. Visible minorities make up 27% of the population, close to Ontario’s towns (26%) and above Canadian towns (15%).

A normal November in Cherry Hill runs from −2°C to 7°C

A normal December brings highs of 1°C, lows of −6°C. November usually brings some 9 cm of snow. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 75 mm. July brings the warmest days, 27°C; January the coldest nights, −10°C.

Cherry Hill has no public library of its own; the nearest is Waterloo Public Library - Main, 2 km away

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

20 public protected areas lie within 10 km of Cherry Hill

Biggest among them: Huron Natural Area, 96 ha, 4.5 km off. Trillium Woods Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 48 km. No national park lies within 100 km.

Older housing stands out in Cherry Hill: 41% predates 1961