Plympton-WyomingOntario

The force covering Plympton-Wyoming records more serious violence than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, at 378

Shared with the rest of the Lambton (Walpole Island First Nation) detachment area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Violence across its police area runs at 53.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 334 over 2023–25, higher than both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). Property crime in the area its police cover: 95 per 1,000 people a year.

Plympton-Wyoming has higher household incomes than nine in ten Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 24 min, lower than both Ontario’s towns (29 min) and Canadian towns (26 min).

In the top two fifths in Ontario: 5 of the 9 schools around Plympton-Wyoming with results

Within 3 km of Plympton-Wyoming are 8 elementary schools and 1 secondary school, teaching 2,505 students. The schools around it answer to 2 boards, below both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). None of them teaches in French, though one in ten schools in Ontario do.

Flood mapping exists for Plympton-Wyoming: 1 on record, latest by St. Clair Region Conservation Authority

Seismic risk runs low: $0.014 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 8.4% of homes tested in Plympton-Wyoming’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%.

People in Plympton-Wyoming’s health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town

Smoking takes in 14% of adults, age-standardised, above both Ontario’s towns (10%) and Canadian towns (12%). In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Plympton-Wyoming, further than the usual 3.7 km.

Rent takes less of local pay in Plympton-Wyoming than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 17% of household income

Measured across the Sarnia metro area: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom

88% of households are owner-occupiers. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 9% of households, below both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Winter nights in Plympton-Wyoming are milder than in 83% of Canadian towns

A normal January brings 34 cm of snow, the most of any month. There are 131 days of frost in a typical year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). For the wettest month, look to June: 93 mm on average.

A normal November in Plympton-Wyoming runs from freezing to 8°C

Snow is normal by November, about 7 cm over the month. Then December: 2°C by day, −4°C at night. In November, the normal is 80 mm of rain and snow. Also worth knowing: for today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Sarnia forecast.

Plympton-Wyoming’s MP is Marilyn Gladu (Conservative Party of Canada), for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong

From Ontario come 122 MPs, 71 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada.

3 public library branches serve Plympton-Wyoming

Among them: Lambton County Library, Lambton County Library - Camlachie and Lambton County Library - Wyoming.

Little of the land around Plympton-Wyoming is protected: 0.2% within 10 km

CPCAD lists 5 protected areas within 10 km. No national park lies within 100 km. For a provincial park, Pinery Provincial Park lies 18 km off. Within 5 km lie 2 beaches, unnamed on the map.

Visible minorities make up less of Plympton-Wyoming than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 3%

Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. Children under 15 make up 18%, higher than both Ontario’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%).