Rideaucrest - Davidson HeightsOttawa

Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights is graded 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

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 66, below both Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Its police area records 8 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights’s schools belong to 4 boards that cover the same streets

St. Francis Xavier (9-12) Catholic School is the biggest, at 1,665 students. Results lean high: 17 of 27 in the top two fifths in Ontario. The Catholic boards run 23 of its 35 schools, against 34% in Ontario. Its elementary schools are big ones, 513 students on average, against 365 in Ontario.

Few places match Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights for health: it beats 91% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the City of Ottawa Health Unit: health survey and life expectancy

Expected years of life at birth: 83.7, above both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). Smoking is rarer than in the province: 8.6% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. By contrast, in the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Ontario’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 9.5 km from the average resident of Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights, further than the usual 3.7 km.

Household incomes in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights are among the highest of any Canadian town

Commutes averaged 26 min, lower than Ontario’s towns (29 min) and near Canadian towns (26 min). 85% of commuters took the car to work at the census.

Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights is on Canada’s flood inventory: 2 listed, led by Rideau Valley Conservation Authority

Radon is about average around Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights: 6.2% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Averaged over the years, quake damage costs $0.15 per $1,000 of buildings, above Ontario’s towns ($0.043) and Canadian towns ($0.030) alike. Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Ottawa.

Renting in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights costs 17% of household income, less than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

Owners put the median home at $650,000, below Ontario’s towns ($695,000) but above Canadian towns ($406,000). 84% of households are owner-occupiers.

Winter nights bite in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights: January lows of −14.3°C, colder than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns

Expect July highs of around 27.0°C in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights. Between the last spring frost, 29 April, and the first in autumn, 7 October, lie 160 days. Snow totals 232 cm over the year, higher than both Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). The most precipitation falls in June: 97 mm in a normal year.

Few people in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights are 65 or over: 10%, below Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Visible minorities make up 43% of the population, above Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. Under 15: 17% of residents.

A normal November in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights runs from −2°C to 6°C

About 21 cm of snow falls in a normal November. By December, a normal day reaches −2°C and a night falls to −10°C. In November, the normal is 74 mm of rain and snow. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Ottawa (Kanata - Orléans) forecast.

At 7.6 loans per person served, Ottawa public library lends more than nine in ten Ontario’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Ottawa’s: Ottawa public library serves all 1,083,550 people of the city, Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights among them.

Protected land at Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights’ edge: Rideau Canal National Historic Site

23 km from town is Rideau River Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Thousand Islands National Park, at 78 km. Of the land within 10 km, 6.8% has protected status, above both Ontario’s towns (2.3%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). Within its own boundary, 11% of the neighbourhood is protected.