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Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is graded a D for cost of living

The rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers here cover the Toronto metro area

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%). The owner-occupied share of households is 79%.

Few places are as safe from hazards as Vaughan Metropolitan Centre: it beats 90% of Canadian towns

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre as in most places, at $0.028 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Toronto Regional Conservation Authority has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Vaughan.

Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the York Regional Health Unit

Across the region, just over half of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average 16% of adults, below both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). For Vaughan Metropolitan Centre itself the measure is access: 4.7 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km.

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is graded a B+ for safety

Property crime in its police area ran at 21.4 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). Where it is policed, 9.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year.

The schools around Vaughan Metropolitan Centre answer to 5 boards

Within 3 km of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre are 35 elementary schools, 8 secondary schools and 1 alternative or adult school, teaching 17,515 students. Father Bressani Catholic High School is the biggest, at 1,405 students. 22 of the 44 are Catholic, more than the 34% in Ontario. The 40 with results split, 8 in the upper two fifths in Ontario and 20 in the lower.

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 27.4°C

January nights fall to −8.9°C on average, about level with Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) and above Canadian towns (−13.5°C). Frost usually lifts by 27 April and returns around 20 October: 174 days without it. Snow peaks in January: 32 cm in a normal year. A normal June brings 81 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

Household incomes in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre top those of 92% of Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 28 min, close to Ontario’s towns (29 min) and above Canadian towns (26 min). 88% of commuters drove, in line with Ontario’s towns (88%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Fewer children live in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 12% are under 15

0.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below both Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%). People 65 and over make up 21% of the town.

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre in November: highs near 8°C, lows near freezing

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

Council seats in Vaughan are spread thin, 35,850 residents each, more than in 98% of Ontario municipalities

As a neighbourhood of Vaughan, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre shares the council elected in October 2022, with Steven Del Duca as mayor.

Vaughan public library logs 5.7 visits per person served, more than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people.

Rouge National Urban Park is 27 km from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

The closest provincial park is Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, 35 km from the edge of town. 6.7 km out lies the largest, Brampton Natural Heritage System, at 1,126 ha. CPCAD lists 16 protected areas within 10 km. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 4.7% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town.