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Rent takes more of local pay in Mississauga Valleys than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 26% of household income

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

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 31% of households, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). 78% of households are owner-occupiers.

Mississauga Valleys’s grade for hazard risk: an A

The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Credit Valley Conservation Authority. Seismic risk in Mississauga Valleys sits near the middle: $0.040 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030.

Mississauga Valleys’s grade for health: an A−

Adults who call their own health very good or excellent: 49%, lower than both Ontario’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%). Smoking is rarer than in the province: 8.2% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. What sets Mississauga Valleys apart within its region is distance, and at 2.9 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Across the region, life runs to 85.3 years on average: women 87.2, men 83.3, in 2022/2024. Mississauga Valleys doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Peel Regional Health Unit.

Fewer commuters in Mississauga Valleys drive than in Ontario’s towns or across Canadian towns: 81%

The average trip to work took 30 min, near Ontario’s towns (29 min) and higher than Canadian towns (26 min).

3 boards run the schools in and around Mississauga Valleys

Taken together, Mississauga Valleys and its 3 km edge hold 51 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school for 26,050 students. Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,230 students. Of its 55 tested schools, 20 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 20 in the bottom two. One of the 58 teaches in French, against 10% of schools in Ontario.

Summer runs warm in Mississauga Valleys: July highs of 27.4°C, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

The coldest nights come in January, when Mississauga Valleys averages a low of −8.9°C. Frost comes on 131 days a year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Gardeners get 174 frost-free days, from 27 April to 20 October. For the wettest month, look to June: 81 mm on average.

Mississauga Valleys’s grade for safety: a B

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

Its police area recorded 8.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (10.5) and Canadian towns (12). Property crime in the area its police cover: 22.6 per 1,000 people a year.

Visible minorities make up more of Mississauga Valleys than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 42%

14% are under 15, below both Ontario’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for 22% of residents.

In Mississauga Valleys, November normally means 8°C afternoons and freezing nights

ECCC’s forecast for Mississauga is on the Weather page, hour by hour. Snowfall in a normal November: 9 cm. December follows at 2°C by day and −5°C by night. Precipitation in November averages 72 mm.

Council seats in Mississauga are spread thin, 63,720 residents each, more than in 99% of Ontario municipalities

Parts of Mississauga Valleys vote in 2 different ridings for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Mississauga East—Cooksville and Mississauga Centre.

Mississauga public library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries

Mississauga Valleys is served by Mississauga public library, the library of all of Mississauga, so the figures here are the city’s, for 796,000 people.

Rouge National Urban Park is 42 km from Mississauga Valleys

Biggest among them: Brampton Natural Heritage System, 1,126 ha, 9.7 km off. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 0.1% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. CPCAD lists 3 protected areas within 10 km. Bronte Creek Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 22 km.