Port CreditMississauga

Home ownership in Port Credit, 35%, runs below Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Toronto metro area: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom

38% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 32% of the median household income, above Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike.

Mixed results around Port Credit: 12 high and 7 low of 22 schools in Ontario

Port Credit Secondary School is the biggest, at 1,370 students. Boards running schools in the area: 2, lower than both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). None of them teaches in French, though one in ten schools in Ontario do. The 3 km around Port Credit counts 21 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, 11,210 students between them.

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

Seismic risk in Port Credit sits near the middle: $0.040 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. The national inventory holds 7 flood maps for it, the newest from Credit Valley Conservation Authority. Port Credit shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Mississauga.

Port Credit’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 3.8 years: life expectancy 85.3

The health survey and life expectancy numbers here cover the Peel Regional Health Unit

For Port Credit itself the measure is access: 2.7 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The survey counts nearly one in ten adults as smokers, below both Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%). Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 49% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%.

Working-age people in Port Credit are less likely to have a job than in 68% of Canadian towns

Workers spend 29 min getting to work, on average.

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

A normal January brings 32 cm of snow, the most of any month. The thermometer drops below freezing on 131 days a year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 20 October: 174 days without it. Port Credit sees January nights of −8.9°C on average.

For safety, Port Credit gets 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

Violent crime in the area its police cover: 8.5 per 1,000 people a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 22.6 property crimes are reported each year. The index for the force that serves it came to 56, about level with Ontario’s towns (56) and below Canadian towns (67).

Children make up only 10% of Port Credit, fewer than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Over-65s are 25% of the population. 24% of residents belong to a visible minority, lower than Ontario’s towns (26%) yet higher than Canadian towns (15%).

Port Credit in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Mississauga forecast, on the Weather page. A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. Expect about 72 mm of rain and snow over November.

Mississauga Library draws 4.8 visits per person served, ahead of 77% of Ontario’s town libraries

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

A national park 42 km from Port Credit: Rouge National Urban Park

Bronte Creek Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 20 km. Count 2 protected areas within 10 km of town. Within 10 km of the town, 0.1% of the land is protected, against 2.3% around a typical Canadian town.