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Rent takes more of local pay in Hamilton Road than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 28% of household income

The median home value was $400,000, about level with Canadian towns ($406,000) and below Ontario’s towns ($695,000). Households that own their home make up 72%.

Hamilton Road earns an A for hazard risk

Shared with the rest of the city of London: earthquake risk

In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.8% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Hamilton Road as in most places, at $0.020 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No one has filed a flood map for Hamilton Road on the national inventory.

Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Hamilton Road’s health region

Measured from where Hamilton Road’s residents live, a hospital is 3.2 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Chronic conditions run at 18% of adults, age-standardised, above both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.9 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 79.6 for men.

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

88% of commuters drove, in line with Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Hamilton Road earns a C+ for safety

Measured across the London service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

The index for the force that serves it came to 70, about level with Canadian towns (67) and above Ontario’s towns (56). Its police area records 36.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Ice rarely forms: Hamilton Road sees fewer frosts than three in four Canadian towns

January is the snowiest month, with 43 cm on average. Gardeners get 165 frost-free days, from 3 May to 16 October. In January the thermometer sinks to −9.1°C overnight, close to Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) and above Canadian towns (−13.5°C). The most precipitation falls in September: 93 mm in a normal year.

Fewer children live in Hamilton Road than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 14% are under 15

13% of residents belong to a visible minority, lower than both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%). Over-65s are 18% of the population.

Hamilton Road in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

The year peaks in July (27°C) and bottoms out in January (−9°C). The month after, December, normally sees 1°C afternoons and −5°C nights. Precipitation in November averages 88 mm. November usually brings some 13 cm of snow.

Council seats in London are spread thin, 32,990 residents each, more than in 98% of Ontario municipalities

In the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Hamilton Road belongs to London—Fanshawe; who holds it as MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) isn’t on an open record, so no one is named.

Each person London Public Library serves borrows 5.5 items, more than at 77% of Ontario’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are London’s: London Public Library serves all 439,385 people of the city, Hamilton Road among them.

Four parallel systems run Hamilton Road’s schools through 4 boards: English and French, public and Catholic

Of the 52, 3 teach in French (10% of schools in Ontario). Results have climbed at 29 of 48 schools over three years. H B Beal Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,525 students. Counting a 3 km margin, Hamilton Road has 41 elementary schools, 10 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, for 24,190 students.

Meadowlily Woods Esa reaches Hamilton Road

National parks are all over 100 km off. Komoka Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 13 km. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 1.7% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town.

Hamilton Road keeps its older homes: 58% from before 1961