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Renting in Sandy Hill eats 37% of household income, more than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

Source area for rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom: the Ottawa-Gatineau metro area

Owners put the median home at $576,000, below Ontario’s towns ($695,000) but above Canadian towns ($406,000). Two in five households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Expect 83.7 years of life in the region around Sandy Hill, 2.2 above the typical Canadian town

For Sandy Hill itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.6 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The region has fewer smokers than Ontario, 8.6% of 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%).

The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Sandy Hill trails that of 88% of Canadian towns

The commute to work averages 25 min.

Sandy Hill’s grade for safety: a D

For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 8 violent incidents are reported each year. The violent index for its police area came to 66, below both Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86).

Sandy Hill is on Canada’s flood inventory: 2 listed, led by Rideau Valley Conservation Authority

Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.15 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, 6.2% of homes tested in Sandy Hill’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of the town’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.001% a year). For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Ottawa, Sandy Hill included.

Sandy Hill has more protected land around it than 9 in 10 Canadian towns

For a national park, Thousand Islands National Park is 95 km away. CPCAD lists 40 protected areas within 10 km. Plaisance National Park (Québec) is the closest provincial park, at 38 km.

January lows in Sandy Hill: −14.0°C, against −9.1°C in Ontario’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

Between the last spring frost, 30 April, and the first in autumn, 6 October, lie 158 days. Snowfall adds up to 185 cm a year, higher than both Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). The most precipitation falls in June: 95 mm in a normal year. January is the snowiest month, with 45 cm on average.

16 of the 49 schools around Sandy Hill teach in French

In or within 3 km of Sandy Hill: 36 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools, 1 school for every grade and 3 alternative or adult schools, with 18,150 students. Glebe Collegiate Institute is the biggest, at 1,315 students. All four of Ontario’s systems run schools here, English and French, public and Catholic. On the tests, 16 of 36 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 15 under it.

Children make up only 7.7% of Sandy Hill, fewer than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

People 65 and over make up 13% of the town. Visible minorities make up 34% of the population, higher than both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%).

A normal November in Sandy Hill runs from −2°C to 6°C

Snow is normal by November, about 16 cm over the month. By December, a normal day reaches −2°C and a night falls to −9°C. November normally sees 72 mm of precipitation. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Ottawa (Kanata - Orléans) forecast.

One councillor per 47,520 residents: Ottawa is more thinly represented than 99% of Ontario municipalities

Sandy Hill is in Ottawa—Vanier for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, whose current MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) no open source we can use records yet.

More loans per person served than nine in ten Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6

Sandy Hill 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.

Sandy Hill: 2 historic places, one with the highest designation

Go back to 1877 and you reach St. Alban's Anglican Church, the oldest of them. The record has a provincial or municipal listing. Older housing, built before 1961, accounts for 36% of homes, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).