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Renting in Newtonbrook West eats 31% of household income, more than in both Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

50% of households own their home, below Ontario’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%) alike. Shelter took 30% or more of income for 40% of households, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). For rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, the only official count covers all of the Toronto metro area, Newtonbrook West included.

Commuters in Newtonbrook West travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 37 min on average

Newtonbrook West’s schools come under 5 different boards

Of its 57 tested schools, 28 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 12 in the bottom two. The largest is Earl Haig Secondary School, with 2,175 students. 2 of the 63 teach in French, against 10% of schools in Ontario. The 3 km around Newtonbrook West counts 48 elementary schools and 15 secondary schools, 30,795 students between them.

Few places match Newtonbrook West for health: it beats 89% of Canadian towns

Life expectancy at birth in the region is 84.7 years, higher than both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The region has fewer smokers than Ontario, nearly one in ten adults to 11%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Newtonbrook West is well placed: 1.6 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Newtonbrook West doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the City of Toronto Health Unit.

Newtonbrook West is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority

Shared with the rest of the city of Toronto: earthquake risk

Radon is lower than usual: 2.7% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Shaking is about as much of a worry in Newtonbrook West as in most places, at $0.043 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of the town’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.001% a year).

Newtonbrook West is graded a C for safety

The violent index for its police area came to 93, higher than both Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Property crime in its police area ran at 34.4 per 1,000 residents a year, higher than both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2).

Newtonbrook West has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.3°C

A normal January brings 40 cm of snow, the most of any month. Frost usually lifts by 3 May and returns around 13 October: 161 days without it. The coldest nights come in January, when Newtonbrook West averages a low of −10.1°C.

More of Newtonbrook West belongs to a visible minority than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 66%

Just over one in ten residents are children under 15. First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.1% of residents, lower than both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

In Newtonbrook West, November normally means 7°C afternoons and −1°C nights

Normal highs peak at 27°C in July; nights bottom out at −10°C in January. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near 2°C and lows near −6°C. Snow is normal by November, about 12 cm over the month. Expect about 77 mm of rain and snow over November.

No public library stands in Newtonbrook West: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Centennial, is 1.9 km away

Newtonbrook West is served by Toronto public library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people.

A national park 19 km from Newtonbrook West: Rouge National Urban Park

21 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. The largest is E.T. Seton Park: 130 ha, 8.9 km from the edge of town. For a provincial park, Holland Landing Prairie Provincial Park lies 37 km off.