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Renting in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown eats 32% of household income, more than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns

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

Owners put the median home at $695,000, close to Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and above Canadian towns ($406,000). 31% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike.

Commuters in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 34 min on average

73% of commuters drove, lower than both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

For health, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown is ahead of 87% of Canadian towns

Measured from where Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Statistics Canada puts life expectancy at 84.7, above both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). At 9.2%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 11% for Ontario. Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the City of Toronto Health Unit.

Flood mapping exists for Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown: 1 on record, latest by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority

Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 2.7% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Seismic risk in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown sits near the middle: $0.043 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Toronto as a whole, not for Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown alone.

24 of Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s 42 tested schools score in the lower two fifths in Ontario

Its schools answer to 4 boards. Holy Cross Catholic Academy High School is the biggest, at 1,295 students. No French-language school is among them; in Ontario, 10% of schools are. Taken together, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown and its 3 km edge hold 34 elementary schools and 10 secondary schools for 20,600 students.

Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

The most precipitation falls in June: 81 mm in a normal year. Frosty days number 131 in a normal year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Winter lows in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown average −8.9°C in January. Between the last spring frost, 27 April, and the first in autumn, 20 October, lie 174 days.

More of Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown belongs to a visible minority than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 89%

0.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Those 65 and older account for 13% of residents. One measure of family life: 18% of residents are under 15.

Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. By December, a normal day reaches 2°C and a night falls to −5°C. In November, the normal is 72 mm of rain and snow. Across the year, normals run from −9°C nights in January to 27°C afternoons in July.

Toronto Public Library - Albion is Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s public library

Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown among them.

Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown gets a B− for safety

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 93, higher than both Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Where it is policed, thefts, break-ins and damage came to 34.4 per 1,000 a year, above Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2) alike. For Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000, the only official count covers all of the Toronto service area, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown included.

Within 32 km of Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown: Rouge National Urban Park

Within 10 km, 4.1% of the land is protected, higher than both Ontario’s towns (2.3%) and Canadian towns (2.3%). Biggest among them: Brampton Natural Heritage System, 1,126 ha, 4.1 km off. CPCAD lists 9 protected areas within 10 km.