Mount JoyMarkham

Around Mount Joy, 23 of 40 schools with results rank among the top fifth in Ontario

The 3 km around Mount Joy counts 34 elementary schools and 6 secondary schools, 26,440 students between them. Bill Hogarth Secondary School is the biggest, at 2,055 students. Schooling here is split between 2 boards, below both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). None of them teaches in French, though one in ten schools in Ontario do.

Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Mount Joy, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the York Regional Health Unit

Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). On average 16% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.2 km from the average resident of Mount Joy, nearer than the usual 3.7 km.

Mount Joy faces fewer hazards than 88% of Canadian towns

Earthquake risk for the city of Markham

Seismic risk in Mount Joy sits near the middle: $0.034 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Toronto Regional Conservation Authority has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory.

Mount Joy is a town of owners: 91% of households own their home, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

A year’s rent came to 19% of the median household income, below Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike.

Commuters in Mount Joy travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 34 min on average

86% of commuters drove to work at the census.

For safety, Mount Joy gets a B+

Property crime in its police area ran at 21.4 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). Where it is policed, 9.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year. Mount Joy doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the York Region service area.

Mount Joy has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.3°C

Between the last spring frost, 3 May, and the first in autumn, 13 October, lie 161 days. January nights fall to −10.1°C on average, between Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) and Canadian towns (−13.5°C). Snow peaks in January: 40 cm in a normal year. Rain and snow peak in June, at 87 mm.

Visible minorities make up more of Mount Joy than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 66%

0.3% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Children under 15 count for 15% of the people here. Over-65s are a fifth of the population.

A normal November in Mount Joy runs from −1°C to 7°C

Expect about 77 mm of rain and snow over November. Then December: 2°C by day, −6°C at night. Snow is normal by November, about 12 cm over the month. Across the year, normals run from −10°C nights in January to 27°C afternoons in July.

Council seats in Markham are spread thin, 28,580 residents each, more than in 97% of Ontario municipalities

Mount Joy is split between 2 ridings of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Markham—Stouffville and Markham—Unionville.

Markham public library draws 6.9 visits per person served, ahead of 94% of Ontario’s town libraries

Markham public library serves the whole of Markham, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 365,051 people, Mount Joy among them.

Rouge National Urban Park lies 2.0 km beyond Mount Joy’s edge

Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, a tenth of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. A provincial park, Uxbridge Urban Provincial Park, lies 20 km away. There is a beach within 5 km, unnamed on the map.