Playfair Park - Guildwood EstatesOttawa

Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates’s grade for safety: an A+

The Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 numbers here cover the Ottawa service area

For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 8 violent incidents are reported each year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 55 over 2023–25, close to Ontario’s towns (56) and below Canadian towns (67).

Health in Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates beats 96% of Canadian towns

For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 83.7 years at birth, 85.7 for women and 81.6 for men. The region has fewer smokers than Ontario, nearly one in ten adults to 11%. Age-standardised, 56% of the region’s adults put their health at very good or excellent, higher than both Ontario’s towns (51%) and Canadian towns (52%). Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.5 km from the average resident of Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates, nearer than the usual 3.7 km.

Driving to work is less common in Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 73% of commuters

The average trip to work took 22 min, lower than both Ontario’s towns (29 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

Measured against local pay, Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates costs more to live in than 87% of Canadian towns

Owners put the median home at $755,000, above both Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). Households that own their home make up 71%. Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Ottawa-Gatineau metro area.

Hazards in Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 6.2% of tested homes

Earthquakes are expected to cost $0.15 a year for every $1,000 of buildings, higher than both Ontario’s towns ($0.043) and Canadian towns ($0.030). No flood study for Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates is on the national inventory.

English or French, public or Catholic: Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates’s schools come under 4 boards

On the tests, 10 of 34 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 18 under it. Of 39 schools, 8 teach in French; in Ontario, 10% do. In or within 3 km of Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates: 32 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, with 17,675 students.

More of the land around Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates is protected than around 9 in 10 Canadian towns

2.4 km out lies the largest, Rideau Canal National Historic Site, at 19,972 ha. Within 10 km are 37 protected areas. The nearest national park is Thousand Islands National Park, 91 km away.

January lows in Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates: −14.0°C, against −9.1°C in Ontario’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

The warmest stretch brings July afternoons of 26.7°C, close to Ontario’s towns (26.7°C) and above Canadian towns (25.5°C). Gardeners get 158 frost-free days, from 30 April to 6 October. January is the snowiest month, with 45 cm on average. A normal June brings 95 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates skews older, with 26% of residents 65 or over, more than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Under 15: 15% of residents. Visible minorities make up 25% of the population, below Ontario’s towns (26%) but above Canadian towns (15%).

Expect November days around 6°C in Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates, nights around −2°C

December follows at −2°C by day and −9°C by night. Expect around 16 cm of snow in November. In November, the normal is 72 mm of rain and snow. The year peaks in July (27°C) and bottoms out in January (−14°C).

Each person Ottawa public library serves borrows 7.6 items, more than at 91% of Ontario’s town libraries

Ottawa public library serves the whole of Ottawa, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,083,550 people, Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates among them.