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Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant earns an A+ for safety

Area-wide: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, counted over the Ottawa service area

The force’s area logs 8 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The violent index for its police area came to 66, below Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike.

Around Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, 10 of 17 schools with results rank among the top fifth in Ontario

The largest is Earl of March Secondary School, with 1,715 students. Families can pick among four systems here: English or French, public or Catholic. The Catholic boards run 10 of its 20 schools, against 34% in Ontario. Schooling in French is on offer at 3 of 20; in Ontario, one in ten schools teach in it.

For health, Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant is ahead of 93% of Canadian towns

Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, whereas the region has fewer smokers than Ontario, nearly one in ten adults to 11%. Add to that, on average 16% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, below both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). Across the region, life runs to 83.7 years on average: women 85.7, men 81.6, in 2022/2024.

The car carries only 84% of commuters in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, fewer than in Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 26 min, lower than Ontario’s towns (29 min) and near Canadian towns (26 min).

Between the home and getting around, Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant’s households spend 22% of income, below the 29% of the typical Canadian town

Rent took 17% of household income, below Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike. Households that own their home make up 82%. Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant shares its rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers with the rest of the Ottawa-Gatineau metro area.

Wildfire low, radon 6.2%: how Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant stands on hazards

Averaged over the years, quake damage costs $0.15 per $1,000 of buildings, higher than both Ontario’s towns ($0.043) and Canadian towns ($0.030). Fire seldom reaches Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.002% a year). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town. Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Ottawa.

January lows in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant: −14.0°C, against −9.1°C in Ontario’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

July afternoons reach 26.7°C on average, about level with Ontario’s towns (26.7°C) and above Canadian towns (25.5°C). Frost usually lifts by 30 April and returns around 6 October: 158 days without it. January is the snowiest month, with 45 cm on average. The most precipitation falls in June: 95 mm in a normal year.

More people in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant speak English and French than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 30%

Visible minorities make up half of the population, above both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%). 1.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity, above Ontario’s towns (1.6%) but below Canadian towns (2.8%).

Expect November days around 6°C in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, nights around −2°C

Across the year, normals run from −14°C nights in January to 27°C afternoons in July. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near −2°C and lows near −9°C. November normally sees 72 mm of precipitation. Snow is normal by November, about 16 cm over the month.

More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6

Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant is served by Ottawa public library, the library of all of Ottawa, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,083,550 people.

Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant has more protected land around it than 8 in 10 Canadian towns

A drive of 86 km reaches Thousand Islands National Park, the nearest national park. The closest provincial park is Burnt Lands Provincial Park, 18 km from the edge of town. 4.3 km out lies the largest, Aylmer (Lac Deschênes) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 588 ha. There is a beach within 5 km, unnamed on the map.