Thistletown-Beaumond HeightsToronto

Rent takes more of local pay in Thistletown-Beaumond Heights than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 28% of household income

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

The owner-occupied share of households is 61%. Shelter took 30% or more of income for just over a quarter of households, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).

Commuters in Thistletown-Beaumond Heights travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 35 min on average

The car took 76% of commuters, lower than both Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Thistletown-Beaumond Heights scores better for health than 87% of Canadian towns

The health survey and life expectancy numbers here cover the City of Toronto Health Unit

For Thistletown-Beaumond Heights itself the measure is access: 2.7 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Life expectancy at birth in the region is 84.7 years, higher than both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 50% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. Smoking is rarer than in the province: nearly one in ten adults, against 11% for Ontario.

Thistletown-Beaumond Heights’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Ontario, 35 of the 46 with results

Boards running schools in the area: 2, below both Ontario’s towns (4) and Canadian towns (3). None of them teaches in French, though one in ten schools in Ontario do. Within 3 km of Thistletown-Beaumond Heights are 38 elementary schools, 10 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, teaching 22,400 students.

Thistletown-Beaumond Heights is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority

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 Thistletown-Beaumond Heights as in most places, at $0.043 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical).

Thistletown-Beaumond Heights has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 20 October: 174 days without it. The thermometer drops below freezing on 131 days a year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Thistletown-Beaumond Heights sees January nights of −8.9°C on average. A normal January brings 32 cm of snow, the most of any month.

Visible minorities make up more of Thistletown-Beaumond Heights than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 67%

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 0.2% of residents, below both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). Children are 15% of the town.

In Thistletown-Beaumond Heights, November normally means 8°C afternoons and freezing nights

Into December, the normals move to 2°C and −5°C. A typical November adds 9 cm of snow. A normal November brings 72 mm of rain and snow. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Vaughan forecast, on the Weather page.

The nearest public library to Thistletown-Beaumond Heights is Toronto Public Library - Albion, 1.3 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, Thistletown-Beaumond Heights among them.

Rouge National Urban Park lies 30 km beyond Thistletown-Beaumond Heights’ edge

For a provincial park, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park lies 34 km off. Brampton Natural Heritage System (1,126 ha) is the biggest, 6.5 km from town. 8 areas within 10 km are protected for nature.

Thistletown-Beaumond Heights gets a B− for safety

The violent index for its police area came to 93, above Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Property crime in its police area ran at 34.4 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). Behind Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 sits data gathered across the Toronto service area, with Thistletown-Beaumond Heights one part of it.

An older town: 38% of Thistletown-Beaumond Heights’s homes predate 1961