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Few places are as safe from hazards as Lisgar: it beats 86% of Canadian towns

Measured across the city of Mississauga: earthquake risk

Flood mapping exists: a study by Conservation Halton. Earthquake risk in Lisgar is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.040 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030.

Mixed results around Lisgar: 18 high and 5 low of 38 schools in Ontario

John Fraser Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,715 students. The schools around it answer to 2 boards, below Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3) alike. None of them teaches in French, though 10% of schools in Ontario do. Within 3 km of Lisgar are 32 elementary schools, 7 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, teaching 21,935 students.

People in Lisgar’s health region live to 85.3 on average, 3.8 years beyond the typical Canadian town

Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: nearly half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The survey counts nearly one in ten adults as smokers, below Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%) alike. For Lisgar itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Lisgar shares its health survey and life expectancy numbers with the rest of the Peel Regional Health Unit.

Lisgar is a town of owners: 93% of households own their home, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Toronto metro area

A year’s rent came to 17% of the median household income, below both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%). Nearly a fifth of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than Ontario’s towns (22%) yet higher than Canadian towns (18%).

Trips to work from Lisgar take longer than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 33 min on average

88% of commuters drove, about level with both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Lisgar has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

Most of the snow comes in January, about 32 cm. Some 115 cm of snow falls in a typical year, below Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm) alike. Midwinter nights in Lisgar bottom out at −8.9°C on average. Between the last spring frost, 27 April, and the first in autumn, 20 October, lie 174 days.

Lisgar’s grade for safety: a B

Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area

Its police area recorded 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, below Ontario’s towns (10.5) and Canadian towns (12) alike. Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 22.6 per 1,000 residents a year where it is policed.

More of Lisgar belongs to a visible minority than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 64%

0.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

Expect November days around 8°C in Lisgar, nights around freezing

By December, a normal day reaches 2°C and a night falls to −5°C. Precipitation in November averages 72 mm. Snow is normal by November, about 9 cm over the month. Over the year, July is warmest at 27°C by day and January coldest at −9°C by night.

Each seat on Mississauga’s council stands for 63,720 residents, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Mississauga—Streetsville is the riding Lisgar votes in for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and its MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) isn’t named here because no open list records the members.

More visits per person served than three in four Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga public library counts 4.8

Mississauga public library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, Lisgar among them.

A national park 54 km from Lisgar: Rouge National Urban Park

The largest is Brampton Natural Heritage System: 1,126 ha, 2.3 km from the edge of town. 15 km from town is Bronte Creek Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. 2 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Within 10 km of the town, 0.7% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town.