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Home ownership in Roncesvalles, 47%, runs below Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

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

Rent took 27% of household income, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 30% of households, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Few places match Roncesvalles for health: it beats 91% of Canadian towns

Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Statistics Canada puts life expectancy at 84.7, higher than both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). Smoking is rarer than in the province: nearly one in ten adults, against 11% for Ontario. For Roncesvalles itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for Roncesvalles alone, so this card uses the figure for the City of Toronto Health Unit.

English or French, public or Catholic: Roncesvalles’s schools come under 4 boards

Of its 78 tested schools, 37 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 19 in the bottom two. The largest is Humberside Collegiate Institute, with 1,460 students. 7 of the 93 teach in French, against 10% of schools in Ontario. Within 3 km of Roncesvalles are 73 elementary schools, 19 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, teaching 33,350 students.

Hazards in Roncesvalles are mild: low wildfire and earthquake risk, and 2.7% of area homes above the radon guideline

NRCan expects $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Roncesvalles, near the typical $0.030. No one has filed a flood map for Roncesvalles on the national inventory. For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Toronto, Roncesvalles included.

Commuters in Roncesvalles travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 33 min on average

Roncesvalles has milder winters than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −7.1°C

A normal January brings 32 cm of snow, the most of any month. The thermometer drops below freezing on 110 days a year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Midsummer afternoons in Roncesvalles peak at about 25.3°C.

A younger town: only 13% of people in Roncesvalles are 65 or over, fewer than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

28% of residents belong to a visible minority, above both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%). Both official languages: 18% of residents, above both Ontario’s towns (6.7%) and Canadian towns (7.5%).

A normal November in Roncesvalles runs from 2°C to 8°C

For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Toronto Island forecast. Then December: 3°C by day, −3°C at night. About 9 cm of snow falls in a normal November. In November, the normal is 71 mm of rain and snow.

No public library stands in Roncesvalles: the closest, Toronto Public Library - High Park, is 0.6 km away

Toronto public library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Roncesvalles among them.

Roncesvalles’s grade for safety: a B−

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 93, above Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Where it is policed, thefts, break-ins and damage came to 34.4 per 1,000 a year, higher than both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2).

Roncesvalles is 27 km from Rouge National Urban Park

The closest provincial park is Bronte Creek Provincial Park, 36 km from the edge of town. E.T. Seton Park (130 ha) is the biggest, 9.2 km from town. Protected areas cover 1.3% of the land within 10 km; for the typical Canadian town it is 2.3%. Named trails close by number 4, the Garrison Creek Discovery Walk and Western Ravines & Beaches Discovery Walk 2 among them.

An older town: 67% of Roncesvalles’s homes predate 1961